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**jordani_vt** · 17-06-2010, 01:33

Намерих 2 книги в гугъл, но нямам време да ги изчета:

http://books.google.bg/books?id=WJL_KAJUtHoC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=captain+Frank+Thompson&source=bl&ots=fZIL4eodwJ&sig=2hOzvjigtzJDhVXOf3LJgO_rAKs&hl=bg&ei=BjMZTOvMHoWcOP_e9dUK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=captain%20Frank%20Thompson&f=false

Edward Thompson, perhaps the greatest post-war historian in the English-speaking world, died in 1993. In this readable and unabashedly appreciative survey of Thompson’s histories and politics, Byran D. Palmer reviews include a passionate biographical account of the late-nineteenth-century Romantic William Morris, the hugely acclaimed The Making of the English Working Class, and a series of eighteenth-century studies that reach from customary culture to the antinomian poetics of William Blake.In reviewing the politics which gave shape to his historical work, Palmer assesses the role of Thompson’s family background in India, his youth in the Communist Party, his decisive break with Stalinism in 1956, and his subsequent work campaigning for the causes of the left and nuclear disarmament. Thompson was never comfortable in an academic milieu, and eventually left formal teaching in the 1970s to devote his time to research and writing. His pen was always ready to bend against the powers of the state, and against a left he too often saw as abandoning the cause of social transformation.For readers who know Thompson’s work, Palmer’s discussion of hitherto unstudied aspects of his life will be novel and illuminating; those less familiar with his prodigious achievement will find these pages a useful introduction.

Beyond the Frontier

http://books.google.bg/books?id=pgv_VvMezQwC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=captain+Frank+Thompson+Bulgaria&source=bl&ots=YblOMAkz0Y&sig=jSNI_fNDrzhX7gGP_As-ugwNjEk&hl=bg&ei=JD0ZTOr0LNCNOLy-lesK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q&f=false

E. P. Thompson (1924-1993) was one of the preeminent British historians of the second half of the twentieth century; his The Making of the English Working Class (1964) is arguably the most influential work of British history published during that period. In the present work, originally presented as a set of lectures at Stanford University, Thompson returned to a question that had been on his mind since the war years, the circumstances surrounding the death of his older brother Frank as a British Liaison Officer with the Bulgarian partisans in 1944.Though these events, Thompson admitted, constituted only a historical footnote, they afforded him an opportunity to engage larger intellectual and political matters that we now associate with the early beginnings of the Cold War and to illustrate certain elements of historical method. Thompson was here concerned not so much with what is fact and what is interpretation as with the activities of anti-historians, how sensitive evidence is destroyed or screened, how myths originate, how historical anecdote may simply be a code for ideology, how the reasons of state are eternally at war with historical knowledge. Early in 1944, a British Special Operations mission was parachuted into Serbia to make contact with a group of Bulgarian partisans operating in the area. Their aim was to arrange air drops of supplies for the partisans and to assist them in extending guerrilla warfare across the frontier into Bulgaria itself. Frank Thompson was head of the British mission when it entered Bulgaria with the partisan forces. By the end of May, the entire group had been killed or captured. After a show trial, Frank (though a British officer in uniform) was executed by a firing squad together with the remaining leaders of the partisans and the villagers who had aided them.The book shows how the status of the actors in this drama and the respect accorded to them in the decades that followed varied with changes in the political climate of Europe and the world. It does not simply examine the events themselves, although these are clarified, but also analyzes the politics that lay behind the events, notably the conflicting interests of the western and eastern allies in supporting the partisans and the British liaison mission.

Изглежда, че е изпратен специално в България, но се приземява в по-сигурно място - Южна Сърбия.
Командирът на мисията е убит, Томпсън поема командването и получава временно (каквото и да означава) чин майор.

**Гост** · 17-06-2010, 01:55

Около смъртта му има още много неизвестни. Току така без съд и присъда английски офицер... странно действие. Мисля, че някакви полицаи успяват да го откраднат от военните, преодолявайки караула от войници, които пазят помещението, в което са заключени. Дали е произвол или някаква друга беля има намесена и е пресякъл нечий път твърде опасно...???

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