The Left Side of History - Frank Thompson and the Bulgarian Partisans of World War II
Channel: LiteraryEthnography
Date: 2017-05-11

This short film examines the life of Frank Thompson, a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer who parachuted into Bulgarian-occupied Serbia in January 1944.  His goal was to meet up with the local partisan forces and support their efforts to undermine the Nazi-allied Bulgarian monarchy.  The film is an educational  companion to the 2015 book: The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe (Duke University Press - https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-left-side-of-history).  

Special thanks to Peter Conradi, Freeman Dyson, Kate Thompson, Dearbhla Minoque, Boris Lagadinov and Elena Lagadinova.

More information about Frank Thompson can be found on the Thompson family website: http://edwardanddorothythompson.com/related%20thompsons/frank%20thompson.html

And in Peter Conradi's biography: A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-very-english-hero-9781408830925/