Of the books, journals, booklets and papers read for research the most important include:
Edward Ardizzone, Diary of a War Artist [London]: Bodley Head, 1974.
Monica Bohm-Duchen, Art and the Second World War [UK]: Lund Humphries, 2013.
Suzanne Bosman, The National Gallery in Wartime [UK]: National Gallery Company Limited, 2008.
M.R.D. Foot, Art and War: Twentieth century warfare as depicted by war artists [London]: Headline in association with the Imperial War Museum, c1990.
Meirion & Susie Harries, The War Artists [London]: The Imperial War Museum and the Tate Gallery, 1983.
Sacha Llewellyn and Paul Liss (eds), WWII War Pictures by British Artists [London]: Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, 2016.
Eric Newton, War Through Artists’ Eyes: Paintings and drawings by British war artists [London]: John Murray, 1945.
Alan Powers, Eric Ravilious, Imagined Realities [London]: Imperial War Museums and Phillips Wilson Publishers, 2004.
Private Len Smith, Drawing Fire: The diary of a great soldier and artist [London]: Collins, 2009.
Catherine Speck, Beyond the Battlefield: Women artists of the two world wars [London]: Reaktion Books, 2014.
Angela Summerfield, The Artist at War: Second World War paintings & drawings from the Walker Art Gallery’s collection [Liverpool]: National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, 1989.
War Pictures by British Artists: War at Sea, R.A.F., Army and Blitz [London]: Oxford University Press, 1942.
War Pictures by British Artists, Second Series: Soldiers, Production, Air raids and Women [London]: Oxford University Press, 1943.
Appearing on pages 281–282: ‘Advance Australia Fair’ written by Peter Dodds McCormick, first performed 1878.
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