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Information trouvée : WILLIAM DEAKIN was one of the last British heroes of the Second World War, and one
who had a significant effect on its outcome. He began and ended his career as an Oxford
don; but as a young officer in the Special Operations Executive it was largely his
experience and advice that persuaded Winston Churchill to support the Communist partisans
in Yugoslavia; thus confirming the position of Marshal Tito as national leader and,
ultimately, the independence of his country vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. In 1946 Deakin
returned to Oxford, but time for his academic duties was severely restricted by the
demands made on him by Churchill, to whom he now became principal research assistant
in writing his history of the war (The Second World War, 1948-54). It came to an
end altogether when in 1950 he was appointed the first Warden of St Antony's College.
Frederick William Dampier Deakin, historian and university administrator: born 3
July 1913; Fellow and Tutor, Wadham College, Oxford 1936-49, Research Fellow 1949,
Honorary Fellow 1961-2005; DSO 1943; Warden, St Antony's College, Oxford 1950-68,
Honorary Fellow 1969-2005; Kt 1975; married 1935 Margaret Ogilvy (nee Beatson Bell;
two sons; marriage dissolved 1940), 1943 Livia Stela (died 2001); died Le Castellet,
France 22 January 2005.
LCNA (OCLC CD), 1993-03
La brutale amicizia : Mussolini, Hitler e la caduta del fascismo italiano / Frederick
William Deakin, 1990
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