Though RAF case files provided the vast majority of information for Human Game, a number of books were relied on in the telling of this story. Two books were of considerable help. Exemplary Justice by Allen Andrews provided anecdotal material, while A Gallant Company by Jonathan F. Vance was a great source of biographical information on the “Great Escapers.” The books consulted and referenced are as follows:
Andrews, Allen. Exemplary Justice. George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1976.
Bessel, Richard. Germany 1945. Simon & Schuster UK, Ltd., 2009.
Brickhill, Paul. The Great Escape. Faber & Faber. 1951.
Burgess, Alan. The Longest Tunnel. Naval Institute Press, 1990.
Carroll, Tim. The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh), Ltd., 2004.
Davies, Stephen R., RAF Police: The Great Escape Murders. Woodfield Publishing, 2009.
Durand, Arthur. Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story. Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Gill, Anton. The Great Escape: The Full Dramatic Story with Contributions from Survivors and Their Families. Headline Book Publishing, 2002.
Hastings, Max. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944–1945. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
MacDonald, C. A. The Killing of Reinhard Haydrich: The SS “Butcher of Prague.” Da Capo Press, 1998.
MacDonogh, Giles. After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation. Basic Books, 2007.
Nichol, John, and Tony Rennell. Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of Bomber Command. Viking, 2004.
Rolf, David. Prisoners of the Reich: Germany’s Captives 1939–1945. Leo Cooper, Ltd. 1988.
Ryan, Cornelius. The Last Battle. Simon & Schuster, 1966.
Scholey, Pete. Who Dares Wins: Special Forces Heroes of the SAS. Osprey Publishing, 2008.
Scotland, A. P. The London Cage. Evans Brothers, Ltd., London, 1957.
Vance, Jonathan F. A Gallant Company: The Men of the Great Escape. Pacifica Military History, 2000.
Online Articles and Resources
Landsman, Mark. “Property and the Banality of Memory.” Cabinet Magazine, issue 10 (Property, Spring 2003): http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/banality_memory.php.
Meyhoff, Andreas, and Gerhard Pfeil. “Garmisch-Partenkirchen’s Uncomfortable Past.” Spiegel Online International, January 22, 2010: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,673241,00.html.
“The Massacre at Lidice.” Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team: http://blog.holocaustresearchproject.org/2008/12/10/the-lidice-massacre.aspx. (Referred to in the Source Notes as “The Massacre at Lidice.”)
Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Germany, Jewish Virtual Library: http://www.jew ishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sach.html. (Referred to in the Source Notes section as “JVL.”)
Struthof: Site of the former Natzweiler concentration camp: http://www.struthof .fr/index.php?id=1&L=1. (Referred to in the Source Notes section as “Natzweiler.”)
Task Force Baum and the Hammelburg Raid: www.taskforcebaum.de/index1.html. (This was the primary source of information on the Oflag XIII-B rescue operation detailed in Chapter 7, “Munich,” and is referred to in the Source Notes section as “Domes and Heinlein.”)
Report of the International Red Cross: Oflag XIII-B. Prepared by Military Intelligence Service War Department: www.taskforcebaum.de/oflag13/report1.html. (Referred to in the Source Notes section as “RC.”)
Parliamentary Debates, HC 19 May 1944, vol. 400, cc437-9: Officer Prisoners of War, Germany (Shooting): http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/may/19/officer-prisoners-of-war-germany-shooting.
Parliamentary Debates, HC 23 June 1944, vol. 401, cc477-82: Officer Prisoners of War, Germany (Shooting): http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/jun/23/officer-prisoners-of-war-germany-shooting
News Articles and Periodicals:
Charlesworth, Lorie. “2 SAS Regiment, War Crimes Investigations, and British Intelligence: Intelligence Officials and the Natzweiler Trial.” Journal of Intelligence History 6, no. 2 (Winter 2006).
Janowitz, Morris. “German Reactions to Nazi Atrocities.” American Journal of Sociology (September 1946).
“Goebbels invites attacks on fliers.” New York Times, May 27, 1944.
“German Prisoner Recaptured.” London Sunday Times, May 14, 1946.
“Britain condemns 2 in Gestapo.” New York Times, November 7, 1948.
Untitled. New York Times, October 25, 1952.
“Ex-Death Camp tell story of Nazi and Soviet horrors.” New York Times, December 17, 2001.
“The love story that inspired The Great Escape.” Telegraph (UK), September 26, 2004.
“The secrets of the London Cage.” Guardian (UK), November 12, 2005.
“Major Henry Druce” (Obituary). Telegraph (UK), February 7, 2007.
“He shot the hero of the Great Escape in cold blood. But was this one Nazi who didn’t deserve to hang?” Daily Mail (UK), October 24, 2009.
Transcripts and Unpublished Manuscripts
Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals: Selected and Prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission, vol. XI. His Majesty’s Stationary Office (London), 1949.
Private Papers of L. H. Harcus. Imperial War Museum, London.
Diary of Master Engineer Robert James Goode. Imperial War Museum, London.
Documentary Films
Clarke, Steven, dir. Great Escape: The Untold Story. A Granada Production, 2001.
West, Steve, dir. The Great Escape: The Reckoning. Electric Pictures, Brook Lapping Productions, and Screen Australia, 2009.
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