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Patrick Garrett's Blog: Of Fortunes & War

My great aunt Clare Hollingworth, the subject of my biography "Of Fortunes and War", sadly died last week in Hong Kong aged 105.

We will miss her, but she had a good innings, and leaves a fine journalistic legacy. Her press colleagues gave her an amazing sendoff - with front-page stories on publications around the world. She would have smiled.

I will be developing the blog section here on Goodreads, Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 16, 2017 15:48

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“Clare also got to know author and adventurer Fitzroy Maclean (one of the many supposed ‘inspirations’ for James Bond) during his stint with the SOE in Cairo. Paddy Leigh Fermor was another of the colourful SOE characters whom she could not avoid meeting at the SOE boys’ wild parties, which took place in a grand rented mansion in the Gezira district, and whose guests ranged from the British ambassador to Egypt’s King Farouk. It was true that the SOE did not always maintain the low profile one might have assumed from a supposedly secret organisation. There was usually always at least one SOE representative, drink in hand, on the Shepheard’s hotel veranda. And the location of the SOE headquarters was the worst kept secret in the city. Fitzroy Maclean recounted his first visit, when having whispered the street address to a ‘villainous-looking’ taxi driver the Egyptian just nodded – ‘ah, you want Secret Service …”
― Patrick Garrett, Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents

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“Now, in February 1944, Clare speculated in a Sketch article that come summer, ‘when the Eastern European mud dries’, the many thousands of allied troops in the Middle East would coordinate with the Soviet Red Army to make a pincer movement against German troops in the Balkans. This, Clare said, would force the Germans to withdraw from Crete, Rhodes and other key strongholds. The real Allied military plans were however entirely different – as became clear a few months later when the D-Day invasion forces launched across the English Channel, and stormed into occupied France. It is well known now that deliberate misinformation was a key part of the D-Day success. The Germans were led to believe, by all possible means, that the first Allied landings would be aimed far from Normandy. From her reporting it does seem that Clare Hollingworth was one of the journalists who (presumably unwittingly?) played a small part in the grand deception”
― Patrick Garrett, Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents

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