Education
Thompson was educated at two independent schools, being The Dragon School in Oxford and Kingswood School in Bath. He left academic studies in 1941, aged 17, to fight the forces of fascism. During World War II, he served in a tank unit in the Italian campaign, including at the last battle of Cassino. Subsequently, he studied at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1989 he became an Honorary Fellow of that College.
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