Bibliography

Manuscripts

National Archives

Prime Minister’s papers, PREM

Cabinet papers, CAB

Air Ministry and other papers relating to aviation, AIR

Admiralty papers, ADM

Combined Operations papers, DEFE

Army papers, WO

Ministry of Munitions, MUN

Churchill College, Cambridge

CHAR series contains Churchill’s official papers. Many are reproduced the Companion series cited below.

National Maritime Museum

George Ballard, NAI/2/29

Sir David Beatty, BTY

Henry Oliver, OLV

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Reminiscences of Sir Richard Pim, T3620

King’s College London

Alanbrooke Papers, GB0099

Books

Churchill’s Autobiographical and Biographical/Historical Writings

In approximate chronological order for the period described.

Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life, 1930, reprinted London, 2002

Winston S. Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, 1897, reprinted np, 2005

Winston S. Churchill, The River War, 1899, reprinted London, 1973

Winston S. Churchill, Frontiers and Wars, London, 1962

Mary Soames, ed., Speaking for Themselves, 1998, reprinted London, 1999

Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis

vol. 1, 1911–1918, 1923, reprinted London 2015

vol. 2, 1915, 1923, reprinted London, 2005

vol. 3, 1916–18, 1927, reprinted London, 1995

vol. 4, The Aftermath, London, 1929

Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis 1911–1918, abridged and revised edition, 1931, reprinted London, 2005

Winston S. Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures, London, 1932

Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War

vol. 1, The Gathering Storm, London, 1948, reprinted 1965

vol. 2, Their Finest Hour, London, 1949, reprinted 1967

vol. 3, The Grand Alliance, London, 1950, reprinted 1966

vol. 4, The Hinge of Fate, London, 1951, reprinted 1966

vol. 5, Closing the Ring, London, 1951, reprinted 1966

vol. 6, Triumph and Tragedy, London, 1954, reprinted 1954

Criticisms of Churchill’s Writings

Maurice Ashley, Churchill as Historian, London, 1968

Robin Prior, Churchill’s World Crisis as History, London, c. 1983

David Reynolds, In Command of History, London, 2004

Other Writings by Churchill

Winston S. Churchill, The Fighting Line, London, 1916

Winston S. Churchill, Great Contemporaries, London, 1937

Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis: The Eastern Front, London, 1931

Winston S. Churchill, Marlborough, His Life and Times, reprinted in 2 vols, London, 1947

Churchill Biography

Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 1, Youth, 1874–1900, London, 1966

Randolph S. Churchill and Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 2, Young Statesman, London, 1967

Carlo D’Este, Warlord: A Life of Churchill at War, 1874–1945, London, 2009

Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 3, 1914–1916, London, 1971

vol. 4, 1916–1922, London, 1975

vol. 5, 1922–1939, London, 1976

vol. 6, Finest Hour, London 1983

vol. 7, Road to Victory, London, 1986

Martin Gilbert, Churchill, a Life, London, 2001

Max Hastings, Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, London, 2009

Roy Jenkins, Churchill, London, 2002

Brian Lavery, Churchill Goes to War, London, 2008

Douglas S. Russell, Winston Churchill, Soldier, London, 2005

Companion Volumes

Randolph Churchill, ed., Winston S. Churchill, Companion

vol. 1, part 1, 1874–96, London, 1967

vol. 1, part 2, 1896–1900, London, 1967

Martin Gilbert, ed., Winston S. Churchill, Companion

vol. 2, part 1, 1901–1907, London, 1969

vol. 2, part 2, 1907–1911, London, 1969

vol. 2, part 3, 1911–1914, London, 1969

vol. 3, part 1, July 1914–April 1918, London, 1972

vol. 3, part 2, May 1915–December 1916, London, 1972

vol. 4, part 1, January 1917–June 1919, London, 1977

vol. 4, part 2, July 1919–March 1921, London 1977

vol. 4, part 3, April 1921–November 1922, London 1977

vol. 5, part 1, The Exchequer Years, 1922–1929, London, 1979

vol. 5, part 2, The Wilderness Years, 1929–1935, London, 1981

vol. 5, part 3, The Coming of War, 1936–1939, London, 1982

Martin Gilbert, ed., The Churchill War Papers

vol. 1, At the Admiralty, London, 1993

vol. 2, Never Surrender, London, 1994

vol. 3, The Ever-Widening War, London, 2000

Other Autobiographies and Diaries

Sir Lewis Bayly, Pull Together, London, 1939

Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him, London, 1965

Alan Brooke, War Diaries, London, 2001

Henry D. Capper, Aft from the Hawsehole, London, nd

Charles Carrington, Soldier at Bomber Command, London, 1987

Ernle Chatfield, The Navy and Defence, London, 1942

‘Clinker Knocker’, ‘Aye, Aye, Sir’, London, nd

John Colville, The Fringes of Power, London, 1985

A. B. Cunningham, A Sailor’s Odyssey, London, 1956

Hugh Dalton, Second World War Diary, London, 1986

Sir Dudley de Chair, The Sea is Strong, London, 1961

Barry Domvile, By and Large, London, 1936

Kenneth Dewar, The Navy from Within, London, 1939

J. A. Fisher, Memories, London, 1919

Noble Frankland, History at War, London, 1998

Sir Douglas Haig, War Diaries and Letters, London, 2005

General Charles (‘Tim’) Harington, Tim Harington Looks Back, London, 1940

Bernard Huldermann, Albert Ballin, London, 1922

Sir Edmond Ironside, Diaries, 1937–40, London, 1962

Lord Ismay, Memoirs, London, 1960

David Lloyd George, War Memoirs, 6 vols, London, 1933–36

Sir Arthur Longmore, From Sea to Sky, London, 1946

John Martin, Downing Street, the War Years, London, 1991

Jessica Mitford, Hons and Rebels, reprinted London, 1982

B. L. Montgomery, Memoirs, London, 1958

Edward R. Murrow, In Search of Light, New York, 1967

Charles R. Samson, Fights and Flights, London, 1930

Sir William Slim, Defeat into Victory, London, 1956

Edward Spears, Assignment to Catastrophe, London, 1954

Albert G. Stern, Tanks, 1914–18: The Log-book of a Pioneer, London, 1919

Murray F. Sueter, Airmen or Noahs, London, 1928

Ernest D. Swinton, Eyewitness, London, 1932

Sir Eustace Tennyson d’Eyncourt, A Shipbuilder’s Yarn, London, 1948

Lady Wester Wemyss, Life and Letters of Lord Wester Wemyss, London, 1935

Collections of Documents

Navy Records Society, vol. 103, The Fisher Papers, vol. 1, 1960

Navy Records Society, vol. 108, The Jellicoe Papers, vol. 1, 1966

Navy Records Society, vol. 111, The Jellicoe Papers, vol. 2. 1968

Navy Records Society, vol. 113, Documents Relating to the Naval Air Service, vol. 1, 1969

Navy Records Society, vol. 117, The Keyes Papers, vol. 1. 1972

Navy Records Society, vol. 121, The Keyes Papers, vol. 2, 1980

Navy Records Society, vol. 122, The Keyes Papers, vol. 3, 1981

Navy Records Society, vol. 128, The Beatty Papers, vol. 1, 1989

Navy Records Society, vol. 132, The Beatty Papers, vol. 2, 199?,

Navy Records Society, vol. 142, The Submarine Service, 2001

Navy Records Society, vol. 137, The Defeat of the Enemy Attack upon Shipping, 1997

Biographies

Sir Reginald Bacon, The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, London, 1929, vol. 2

Arthur J. Marder, Fear God and Dread Nought [Fisher] London, 1959

Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1939–45, London, 2000

Robin Brodhurst, Churchill’s Anchor [Pound] Barnsley, 2000

Paul Freyberg, Bernard Freyberg VC, London, 1991

Phillip Jarrett, Frank McClean, Barnsley, 2011

Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten, London, 1985

Andrew Boyle, Trenchard, London, 1962

Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh, No Abiding City, London, 1993

General and Economic History

Angus Calder, The People’s War, reprinted London, 1982

David Cannadine, In Churchill’s Shadow, London, 2002

J. M. Keynes, The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill, London, 1925

Adam W. Kirkaldy, British Shipping, London, 1914

Norman Longmate, The Bombers, London, 1983

Arthur Marwick, The Deluge, London, 1967

Alan R. Millet, ed., Military Effectiveness, vol. 3, The Second World War, London, 1988

C. L. Mowat, Britain Between the Wars, reprinted London, 1987

A. J. P. Taylor, English History, 1914–1945, Oxford, 1975

Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, London, 2006

Official Histories

Julian S. Corbett, History of the Great War, Naval Operations, vol. 1, London, 1920

J. E. Edmonds, Military Operations, France and Belgium, vol. 2, London, 1924

J. E. Edmonds, The Occupation of the Rhineland, London, 1943

John Ehrman, Grand Strategy, vol. V, August 1943 – September 1944, London, 1956

Great Britain, Ministry of Munitions, vol. 12, 1922

Michael Howard, Grand Strategy, vol. IV, September 1942 – August 1943, London, 1972

H. M. D. Parker, Manpower, London, 1957

S. W. Roskill, The War at Sea, 3 vols, London, 1954–61

Naval History

Admiralty, Official Procedure and Rules, 1913

Marinell Ash, This Noble Harbour, Edinburgh, 1991

Reginald Bacon, The Jutland Scandal, reprinted Barnsley, 2015

R. Baker et al., British Warship Design in World War II, London, 1983

Correlli Barnett, Engage the Enemy More Closely, London, 1991

Henry Baynham, Men from the Dreadnoughts, London, 1976

John Brooks, Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland, Abingdon, 2005

Ian Buxton, Big Gun Monitors, revised edition, Barnsley, 2012

Anthony Carew, The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy, Manchester, 1981

Norman Friedman, British Carrier Aviation, London, 1988

Norman Friedman, Naval Weapons of World War One, Barnsley, 2011

Norman Friedman, The British Battleship, 1906–1914, Barnsley, 2015

Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game, London, 1996

Willem Hackman, Seek and Strike, London, 1984

Sir John Jellicoe, The Grand Fleet, 1914–1916, London, 1919

Nicholas Lambert, Sir John Fisher’s Naval Revolution, Columbia, South Carolina, 2002

Brian Lavery, Hostilities Only, Greenwich, 2004

Brian Lavery, Shield of Empire, Edinburgh, 2007

Brian Lavery, The Last Big Gun, Oxford, 2015

E. B. Potter, The Great Sea War, London, 1960

Jon Sumida, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, London, 1993

Jak P. Mallmann Showell, ed., Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs, London, 2005

Dan van der Vat, The Ship that Changed the World, London, c. 1985

Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton, Naval Administration, London, 1896

Joseph Wellings, On His Majesty’s Service, ed. John Hattendorf, Newport, RI, 1983

Lionel Yexley, The Inner Life of the Navy, London, 1908

Military History

Army Training Memorandum, published in 2 vols by Military Library Research Service Ltd, np, nd

Correlli Barnett, The Desert Generals, London, 1960

Peter Beale, Death by Design, Stroud, 1998

Brian Bond, British Military Policy between the Two World Wars, Oxford, 1980

Cornelius Francis Clery, Minor Tactics, London, 1880

Jeremy A. Crang, The British Army and the People’s War, 1939–1945, Manchester, 2000

Robert Crisp, Brazen Chariots, London, 1959

W. D. Croft, Three Years With the 9th (Scottish) Division, London, 1919

David Scott Daniell, 4th Hussar, Aldershot, 1959

Brian L. Davis, British Army Uniforms and Insignia of World War Two, London, 1983

J. C. Dunn, The War the Infantry Knew, 1988

Karl-Heinz Frieser, The Blitzkrieg Legend, Annapolis, 2005

General staff, Notes for Infantry Officers, March 1916

Captain X [A. D. Gibb], With Winston Churchill at the Front Glasgow, 1934

Timothy Harrison Place, Military Training in the British Army, 1940–1944, London, 2000

T. H. Holding, Uniforms of the British Army, Navy and Court, London, 1894

Karl August Eduard Friedrich Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Kraft, Letters on Cavalry …, trans. N. L. Walford, Woolwich, 1889

B. H. Liddell Hart, The Tanks, vol. 1, London, 1959

Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War, London, 1979

G. Philips, Text Book on Fortification etc, for the Use of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, London, 1877

Royal Scots Fusiliers Magazine, quoted in Britain at War, June 2016

Edward M. Spiers, The Late Victorian Army, 1868–1902, Manchester, c 1992

Aviation History

Air Historical Branch, The RAF in Maritime War

C. H. Barnes, Shorts Aircraft since 1900, London, revised 1989

Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, The Rebirth of European Aviation, London, 1976

Max Hastings, Bomber Command, London, 1979

C. G. Jefford, Observers and Navigators, Shrewsbury, 2001

H. A. Jones, The War in the Air, vol. 6, London, 1937

T. E. Lawrence, The Mint, London, 1955

R. D. Layman, To Ascend from a Floating Base, np, 1979

Norman Longmate, The Bombers, London, 1983

Francis K. Mason, Hawker Aircraft Since 1920, London, 1991

H. Montgomery Hyde, British Air Policy Between the Wars, London, c. 1976

Williamson Murray, The Luftwaffe, 1933–45, Washington, 1996

Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force, Barnsley, 2005

Winston G. Ramsey, ed., The Blitz Then and Now, London, 1988

C. F. Rawnsley and Robert Wright, Night Fighter, Manchester, 1998

Bruce Robertson, Sopwith, the Man and the Aircraft, Letchworth, 1970

Andy Saunders, Battle of Britain, RAF Operations Manual, Yeovil, 2015

Owen Thetford, British Naval Aircraft, London, 1991

Combined Operations

The Dardanelles Commission Minutes of Evidence, National Archives CAB 19

The First Report of the Dardanelles Commission, vol. 1, Guildford, 2000

Bernard Fergusson, The Watery Maze, London, 1961

Max Hastings, Overlord, London, 1984

Ministry of Information, Combined Operations 1943

Parliamentary Debates

Hansard is the official record of parliamentary debates. It is cited in the order, volume number, date, and column (not page) number

Articles and Journals

Winston S. Churchill, ‘Some Impressions of the War in South Africa’, Royal United Services Institute Journal, July 1901

William Emerson, ‘Franklin Roosevelt as Commander-in-Chief in World War II’, Military Affairs, 1958–59, pp. 181–207

Stephen Richards Graubard, ‘Military Demobilization in Great Britain’, Journal of Military History, 1947, pp. 297–311

Q. M. Howard in Royal United Services Journal, February 1966, quoted in Bond, British Military Policy, p. 35

Alan G. Jamieson, ‘Martyr or Pirate? The Case of Captain Fryatt in the Great War’, Mariner’s Mirror, vol. 85, part 2, May 1999

Matthew Johnson, ‘The Liberal Party and the Navy League in Britain before the Great War’, 20th Century British History, 2011

Nicholas Lambert, ‘Strategic Command and Control for Maneuver Warfare: Creation of the Royal Navy’s War Room System 1905–1915’, Journal of Military History, vol. 69, 2005

Clive Pearson, ‘Stalin as War Leader’, History Review, December 2008

Naval Review, 1924

Brassey’s Naval Annual, 1911–14

The Fleet Annual and Naval Year Book, 1913

Navy League Journal, 1912–13