Viva Brighton Issue #45 November 2016

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BOOKS .................................... Paddy Ashdown Norman Baker interviews his former boss Paddy Ashdown may be best known for his role as one-time leader of the Lib Dems, but like the best politicians, he has a hinterland far away from politics. For Paddy this included a career as a foreign office diplomat, time with MI6 and as a member of the Special Boat Squad. He is also a prolific author and this is his ninth book, and third about the Second World War. Game Of Spies is the riveting true story of a lethal triangle involving a British spy, a Gestapo officer, and a leader in the French Resistance, in wartime occupied Bordeaux. What makes this book groundbreaking is that he has been able to access the archives both of the British secret agent Roger Landes, and the Gestapo counter-espionage officer charged with finding him, Friedrich Dohse. His partner on the book (‘collaborator’ is perhaps best avoided here), Sylvie Young, a French woman, has added to the mix by unearthing many hitherto unexamined French files of the period. Paddy tells me he regards Friedrich Dohse as the book’s most interesting character, not least because his memoir is the only known one written by a Gestapo officer. His intelligent approach was markedly different from his Gestapo colleagues in other ways too. He eschewed violence and torture, and his preferred method of interrogation was to invite his prisoners to dinner. It was an approach that brought some success, notably in ‘turning’ the third key player in this story, Andre Grandclement. It’s clear that Paddy warmed to this swashbuckling tale, no doubt as he warmed to his own SBS adventures. Notwithstanding the horrors it describes along the way, the book reveals a touch of wistful nostalgia for a time when people faced hard, cold edges, and were, as he put it to me, not “protected by cotton wool as they are today”. The narrative rolls on apace, without sacrificing depth and insight along the way. On the contrary, Paddy builds a picture of the characters, and indeed the nations to which they belong, which is much more thoughtful and nuanced than the 2D cartoon versions we are sometimes presented with. He delights in “breaking lazily received notions”. Is the book just an historical tale, albeit a fascinating and meticulously researched one, I ask Paddy, or can it inform the world today? “Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it,” he answers, without a pause for thought. And he clearly feels rueful, perhaps even ashamed, that the Britain that offered so many of its young men and women to free other countries in Europe is now the country with the most curmudgeonly attitude to those Europeans outside its borders. More ominous still, he sees in the disorientation of people and the distrust of politicians and those in power a parallel between the 1930s and now. So a good read, and maybe an important one, too. As may be his next book, about the internal German resistance to Hitler. Norman Baker Meet the Author: An Evening with Paddy Ashdown, Royal Pavilion Music Room, 17th, 6.30pm, £15.50 ....55....
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Page 9 and 10: SHERLOCK STUDIO ...................
Page 11: BITS AND BOBS .....................
Page 14 and 15: ASK THE LEGAL EXPERT How it works a
Page 16 and 17: VALUATION DAY Jewellery and Antique
Page 18 and 19: Searching for the extraordinary? Ou
Page 20 and 21: BITS AND BOBS .....................
Page 22 and 23: 23 New Road Brighton BN1 1UF 01273
Page 25 and 26: BITS AND BOBS .....................
Page 27 and 28: PHOTOGRAPHY .......................
Page 33 and 34: INTERVIEW .........................
Page 35 and 36: COLUMN ............................
Page 37 and 38: COLUMN ............................
Page 39 and 40: COLUMN ............................
Page 41 and 42: LOCAL MUSICIANS ...................
Page 43 and 44: JAZZ ..............................
Page 45 and 46: TALK ..............................
Page 47 and 48: MUSIC .............................
Page 49 and 50: WITCHCRAFT ........................
Page 51 and 52: MUSIC .............................
Page 53: BOOKS .............................
Page 57: ART ...............................
Page 60 and 61: 伀爀椀最椀渀愀氀愀
Page 63 and 64: ART & ABOUT .......................
Page 65 and 66: DESIGN ............................
Page 67 and 68: LOCAL MAKER .......................
Page 69 and 70: WE TRY... .........................
Page 71 and 72: THE WAY WE WORK This month, Adam Br
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Page 77 and 78: Food & Drink directory ADVERTORIAL
Page 79 and 80: FOOD REVIEW .......................
Page 81 and 82: RECIPE ............................
Page 83 and 84: FOOD ..............................
Page 85 and 86: COFFEE ............................
Page 87 and 88: TRADE SECRETS .....................
Page 89 and 90: MY SPACE ..........................
Page 91 and 92: HEALTH ............................
Page 93 and 94: HISTORY ...........................
Page 95 and 96: BRICKS AND MORTAR .................
Page 97 and 98: MINDFULNESS IN BUSINESS ...........
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