Select Bibliography

General

Conradi, Peter J.: Iris Murdoch: A Life, London, 2001.

—— (ed.): Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries 1938–1946, London, 2010.

Foot, M. R. D.: Memoirs of an SOE Historian, Barnsley, 2008.

Inglis, Fred: The Cruel Peace, New York, 1991.

Kingston University: the Iris Murdoch Archive.

Kusseff, Simon: ‘Frank Thompson, a Chronology in Three Parts’, Archive/Conradi, Kingston University AS6/1/59.

Lago, Mary: India’s Prisoner: A Biography of Edward John Thompson, 1886–1946, Columbia, MO, 2001.

The Oxford Companion to World War II, ed. Ian Dear and M. R. D. Foot, Oxford, 2001.

Passerini, Luisa: Europe in Love; Love in Europe, London, 1999.

Thompson, E. P.: Beyond the Frontier: The Politics of a Failed Mission, Bulgaria 1944, London, 1997.

——: The Making of the English Working Class, London, 1963.

——: ‘The Nehru Tradition’, in Writing by Candlelight, London, 1980.

——: Persons and Polemics, London, 1994.

——: The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays, London, 1978.

—— and Tagore, Rabindranath: Alien Homage, Delhi, 1993.

Thompson, Frank: Selected Poems, ed. Dorothy and Kate Thompson, Nottingham, 2003.

Thompson, Theodosia Jessup and E. P.: There is a Spirit in Europe: A Memoir of Frank Thompson, London, 1947; 2nd edn, 1948.

 

Part One: Between Two Wars, 1919–39

Aldiss, Margaret: A Boars Hill Anthology, Faringdon, 1998.

Antonius, George: The Arab Awakening, London, 1938.

Baker, S. Deborah: In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, London, 1993.

Baxell, Richard: British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades 1936–1939, London, 2004.

Best, G. M.: Continuity and Change: A History of Kingswood School 1748–1998, Bath, 1998.

Carritt, Bill: obituary, Guardian, 24 May 1999.

Carritt, Colin: The Oxford Carritts, privately printed, 2006.

Carritt, Michael: A Mole in the Crown, privately printed, 1985.

Conquest, Robert: Reflections on a Ravaged Century, London, 1999.

Croft, Andy: obituary for Arnold Rattenbury, Independent, 3 May 2007.

Dalton, Catherine: Robert Graves against the Gannon Cult, Eden, NSW, 1998.

——: Without Hardware, Towamba, NSW, 1970; 3rd edn, 1980.

Dyson, Freeman: Disturbing the Universe, New York, 1979.

Graves, Richard: Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic 1895–1926, London, 1986.

Grundon, Imogen: The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury, London, 2007.

Hamilton, Scott: Last Muggletonian Marxist: Studies in E. P. Thompson and the Poverty of Theory, Auckland, 2008.

Hasted, John: Alternative Memoirs, privately printed, 1992.

Healey, Denis: The Time of my Life, London, 1989.

Hopkins, J.: Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War, Stanford, 1998.

Hourani, Cecil: An Unfinished Odyssey, London, 1984.

Jameson, Storm: Journey from the North, London, 1969.

Jenkins, Roy: A Life at the Centre, London, 1991.

Jessup, Henry Harris: Fifty-three Years in Syria, New York, 1910.

——: The Mohammedan Missionary Problem, Philadelphia, 1879.

——: The Setting of the Crescent and the Rising of the Cross, Philadelphia, 1899.

——: The Women of the Arabs, New York, 1873.

Kahrl, Faith Jessup: Memoirs, privately printed, 1989.

Lloyd-Jones, Hugh: Blood for the Ghosts, London, 1982.

MacGillivray, J. A.: Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth, London, 2000.

Macintyre, Ben: Operation Mincemeat, London, 2010.

Manchester People’s History Museum: unpublished interview with Bill Carritt, May 1983.

Maugham, Robin: Escape from the Shadows, London, 1972.

Mortimer, John: Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life, London, 1982.

Mortimer, John: In Character, London, 1983, pp. 99–104 (interview with EP, ‘The Guru and the Radioactive Frog’).

The Nicholsons: A Story of Four People and their Designs, York, 1988.

Powell, Dilys: Villa Ariadne, London, 1973.

Seymour-Smith, Martin: Robert Graves: His Life and Work, London, 1982.

Thompson, E. J.: Beyond Baghdad with the Leicestershires, London, 1919; repr. as Tigers along the Tigris, 2007.

——: Burmese Silver, London, 1937.

——: A Farewell to India, London, 1931.

——: 100 Poems, London, 1994.

——: A Letter from India, London, 1932.

——: Robert Bridges, London, 1944.

Tibawi, Abdul Latif: American Interests in Syria 1800–1901, Oxford, 1966.

Toynbee, Philip: Friends Apart, London, 1954.

Woolf, Virginia: Diary, ed. A. O. Bell and A. McNeillie, London 1977–84.

Part Two: A Professional Murderer, 1939–43

Alpers, A.: Katherine Mansfield: A Biography, London, 1980.

Astor, Michael: Tribal Feeling, London, 1963.

Baker, Peter: Confession of Faith, London, 1946.

Cooper, Artemis: Cairo in the War 1939–45, London, 1989.

Hills, R. J.: Phantom was There, London, 1951.

Imperial War Museum: Martyn Highfield; ref. no. 26546, at No. 1 Officer Cadet Training Unit, Larkhill, 9/1939–12/1939, Barrington Bezant, ref. no. 29046 at officers’ course at School of Artillery, Larkhill, 5/1940–6/1940.

LM [Leslie Moore]: Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LM, London, 1971.

Lord, Graham: The Authorised Biography of David Niven, London, 2003.

Mark, Sir Robert: In the Office of Constable, London, 1978.

Mather, Carol: When the Grass Stops Growing, London, 1997.

Mayhew, Christopher: Time to Explain, London, 1987.

Niven, David: The Moon’s a Balloon, London, 1972.

Seton-Watson, Christopher: Dunkirk–Alamein–Bologna, London, 1993.

Snyder, Timothy: ‘Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History’, New York Review of Books, 24 June 2010, pp. 44–6.

Warner, Philip: Phantom, London, 1982.

——: Secret Forces of World War II, London, 1985.

 

Part Three: Beyond the Frontier, 1943–7

Bailey, Rod: The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle, London, 2008.

Barker, Elisabeth: British Policy in South-East Europe in the Second World War, London, 1976.

Boll, Michael: Cold War in the Balkans: American Foreign Policy and the Emergence of Communist Bulgaria, 1943–1947, Lexington, KY, 1985.

Davidson, Basil: Partisan Picture, Bedford, 1946.

——: Special Operations Europe, London, 1980.

Douglas, Keith: Alamein to Zem Zem, London, 1966, reprinted 1996.

——: Collected Poems, London, 1966.

Earle, John: From Nile to Danube: A Wartime Memoir, Trieste, 2010.

Foot, M. R. D.: SOE in France, London, 1966.

Graham, Desmond: A Biography of Keith Douglas, London, 1974.

Hamilton, Scott: The Crisis of Theory: E. P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics, Manchester, 2011.

Hamson, Denys: We Fell among Greeks, London, 1946.

Henniker, John: Painful Extractions, Thornham Magna, Suffolk, 2002.

Imperial War Museum: the Chavasse papers (Captain E. F. J. Chavasse, ref. 06/23/1); Mostyn Davies’s papers (Major M. L. Davies DSO, ref. 03/24/1).

Johnson, Stowers: Agents Extraordinary, London, 1975.

Kisch, Richard: The Days of the Good Soldiers: Communists in the Armed Forces WWII, London, 1985.

Lees, Michael: The Rape of Serbia, London, 1990.

Mackenzie, William: The Secret History of SOE, London, 2000.

Maclean, Fitzroy: Eastern Approaches, London, 1949.

National Archives: SOE, Operations in the Balkans: A Guide to the Newly Released Records in the PRO, London, n.d.

National Archives, Kew, HS [= SOE] files.

Palmer, Bryan D.: ‘Homage to E. P. Thompson’, Labour/Le Travail, pt 1 (vol. 32, 1993); pt 2 (vol. 33, 1994).

Rattenbury, A.: ‘Convenient Death of a Hero’, London Review of Books, 8 May 1997, pp. 12–13.

Sahgal, N. (ed.), Before Freedom: Nehru’s Letters to his Sister 1909–1947, London, 2000.

Seton-Watson, Hugh: The East European Revolution, London, 1952.

Sweet-Escott, Bickham: Baker Street Irregular, London, 1965.

Thompson, E. P.: The Heavy Dancers, London, 1985 (ch. 4, ‘The Liberation of Perugia’).

Trunski, Slavcho: Grateful Bulgaria, Sofia, 1979.

Vukmanović-Tempo, Svetozar: Struggle for the Balkans, London, 1990.

Waugh, Evelyn: Diaries, ed. Michael Davie, London, 1976.

——: Unconditional Surrender, London, 1961.

West, Nigel: Secret War, London, 1992.

Wood, Neal: Communism and British Intellectuals, London, 1959.

Woodhouse, Monty: Apple of Discord, London, 1948.

Yanev, Kyril: The Man from the Legend: A Life of Frank Thompson, Sofia, 2001.