Select Bibliography

Works of fiction

Ambler, Eric, Uncommon Danger (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937).

‘Bourne, George’ (fictional narrator), I Flew with Braddock (London: D. C. Thomson & Co./John Leng, publication date unknown).

Chesney, George Tomkyns, The Battle of Dorking, Blackwood’s magazine (1871).

Childers, Erskine, The Riddle of the Sands (London: Smith, Elder, 1903).

Deighton, Len, SS-GB (London: Jonathan Cape, 1978).

Dunmore, Helen, The Greatcoat (London: Hammer/Arrow, 2011).

Le Queux, William, The Great War in England in 1897 (London: Tower Publishing Company, 1894).

——— The Invasion of 1910 (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906).

Manning, Olivia, The Balkan Trilogy:

The Great Fortune (London: Heinemann,1960).

The Spoilt City (London: Heinemann, 1962).

Friends and Heroes (London: Heinemann, 1965).

——— The Levant Trilogy:

The Danger Tree (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977).

The Battle Lost and Won (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1978).

The Sum of Things (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1980).

Morton, H. V., I, James Blunt (London: Methuen, 1942).

Munro, Hector Hugh, When William Came: A Story of London under the Hohenzollerns (London: Bodley Head, 1914).

Sartre, Jean-Paul, Iron in the Soul, trans. Gerald Hopkins (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950).

Shute, Nevil, What Happened to the Corbetts (London: Heinemann, 1939).

Snow, C. P., The Light and the Dark (London: Faber & Faber, 1947).

Waugh, Evelyn, Put Out More Flags (London: Chapman & Hall, 1942).

——— Sword of Honour trilogy:

Men at Arms (London: Chapman & Hall, 1952).

Officers and Gentlemen (London: Chapman & Hall, 1955).

Unconditional Surrender (London: Chapman & Hall, 1961).

Verse

MacNeice, Louis, Autumn Journal (London: Faber & Faber, 1939).

Selected sources

Ash, Bernard, Someone Had Blundered: The Story of the ‘Repulse’ and the ‘Prince of Wales’ (London: Michael Joseph, 1960).

Buchanan, Patrick J., Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (New York: Crown Publishers, 2008).

Butler, Lt Col. Ewan, and Major J. Selby Bradford, Keep the Memory Green: The Story of Dunkirk (London: Hutchinson, 1950).

Cameron Watt, Donald, How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939 (New York: Pantheon, 1989).

Charmley, John, Duff Cooper (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981).

Churchill, Winston, The Unrelenting Struggle (London: Cassell, 1942).

Douglas, R. M., Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012).

Draper, Alfred, Operation Fish: Race to Save Europe’s Wealth, 1939–45 (London: Cassell, 1979).

Flying (Special Royal Air Force Issue), September 1942.

Foot, Michael, Peter Howard and Frank Owen, Guilty Men (London: Victor Gollancz, 1940).

Gilbert, Martin, Churchill: A Life (New York: Henry Holt, 1991).

Grayling, A. C., Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? (London: Bloomsbury, 2006).

Greene, Graham, A Sort of Life (London: Bodley Head, 1971).

Hastings, Macdonald, Men of Glory (London: Hulton Press, 1958).

——— More Men of Glory (London: Hulton Press, 1959).

Hastings, Max, Bomber Command (London: Michael Joseph, 1979; Pan Books, 2010).

Hogg, Quintin, The Left Was Never Right (London: Faber & Faber, 1945).

Kinvig, Clifford, Scapegoat: General Percival of Singapore (London: Brassey’s, 1996).

Kyle, Keith, Suez: Britain’s End of Empire in the Middle East (London: I.B.Tauris, 2003).

Makins, Clifford (ed.), Women of Glory (London: Longacre, 1960).

Morton, H. V., Atlantic Meeting (London: Methuen, 1943).

Newman, Simon, March 1939: The British Guarantee to Poland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976).

Nicolson, Harold, Diaries and Letters, 1907–1964, ed. Nigel Nicolson (new rev. edn; London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004).

North, Richard, The Many Not the Few: The Stolen History of the Battle of Britain (London: Continuum, 2012).

Olson, Lynne, Those Angry Days (New York: Random House, 2013 (trade paperback edition 2014)).

——— Last Hope Island (London: Scribe, 2017).

Overy, Richard, The Bombing War: Europe 1939–45 (London: Penguin, 2014).

Prazmowska, Anita, Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

——— Britain and Poland 1939–1943: The Betrayed Ally (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Roskill, Stephen, Naval Policy Between the Wars, Vol. 1 (London: Collins, 1968).

Snow, Charles, Science and Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961).

Solomon, Norman, ‘This guy is a modern-day Hitler’, 26 July 2005. Available at https://www.alternet.org/story/23735/%27this_guy_is_a_modern-day_hitler%27.

Taylor, A. J. P., The Origins of the Second World War (London: Penguin, 1991).

——— The Second World War and Its Aftermath (London: Folio Society, 1998).