By June 1940, Britain was facing Nazi invasion. Prime Minister Winston Churchill's bodyguard Walter Thompson had at least managed to keep him safe during several dangerous trips to France. But the next year was to bring a host of new perils. For as the bombs rained down on, the one person to whos...
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After he became Churchill's bodyguard, Walter Thompson was given the challenge of keeping his boss alive during a visit to the Middle East. A leading British politician was a natural target for assassins and on several critical occasions, Winston was rescued by the enigmatic - Lawrence of Arabia.
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As World War II began, Winston Churchill was brought back into the government after ten years in the wilderness. For his bodyguard Detective-Inspector Walter Thompson it was the beginning of the six most active and nerve-wracking years of his career. Within eight months his boss would be Prime Mi...
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In almost every piece of footage of Britain's great wartime leader Winston Churchill, is an anonymous figure: his bodyguard, Walter Thompson of Scotland Yard. This story tells how these very different characters met, and how the boy from the East End saved his boss from an IRA assassination attem...
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A precarious trip to Moscow to visit Stalin is followed by victory for the 8th Army in North Africa. However, the Germans know that Churchill is travelling and try at least twice to shoot down his plane. His double is not so lucky?
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In the 1930s, despite being out of office, Churchill's opposition to Hitler's regime made him a marked man. When war seemed inevitable, French Intelligence heard of a German plot to assassinate him. Immediately Winston called his former retired bodyguard Walter Thompson to protect him again.
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Winston Churchill returns from Tehran in very poor health. So much so that his doctor expects him to die. Walter's devotion is such that he insists on staying at Winston's side on the crucial night and disaster is averted.
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In 1929, Winston Churchill ceased to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Detective Sergeant Walter Thompson sadly stopped guarding the man he had come to regard as a friend. However, within two years, Winston's outspoken views had gained him fresh and deadly enemies. Walter was recalled, but the ...
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When Winston visits Athens he is supposed to stay at an hotel where Greek guerrillas have placed 1000 lbs of dynamite in a nearby sewer. They shoot at his plane and even fire on HMS Ajax his temporary home in Piraeus harbour.
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The entry of the US into WW II meant a huge increase in responsibility for Churchill's bodyguard Walter Thompson. For three and a half years they were to travel almost 200,000 miles attending high-level conferences. Very soon, Winston was to come within seconds of assassination by a lone gunman.
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Hitler's henchmen have devised a plan to kill Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference. Assassins are parachuted in carrying suicide bombs. It is up to Walter and the intelligence services to protect Winston's life from immediate danger.
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Having kept Churchill safe from assassination during a 1931 US lecture tour, Thompson soon left the police force. It also seemed that Winston's career was over. But a sinister new force, which saw Winston as an implacable enemy, was rising, and threats to his life brought the two men together again.
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