The following publications, histories and memoirs proved invaluable in the writing of this book.
A Bethnal Green Memoir: Recollections of Life in the 1930s–1950s by Derek Houghton, The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK, 2009.
A Short Guide to the Parish Church of Chalfont St Giles: An Outline of the History of the Church by Anon.
An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War by Donald Thomas, John Murray, London, 2003.
Bombers and Mash: the Domestic Front 1939–45 by Raynes Minns, Virago, London, 1980.
Cairo, Biography of a City by James Aldridge, edited by Jimmy Dunn, Little Brown and Company, Boston and Toronto, 1969.
Carry on London by Ritchie Calder, English Universities Press, London, 1941.
Desert Rats: The Desert War 1940–3 in the Words of Those Who Fought There by John Sadler, Amberley Publishing, Gloucestershire, UK, 2012.
Going Green—The Story of the District Line by Piers Connor, published by Capital Transport Publishing, London, 1993.
London’s East End—Life and Traditions by Jane Cox, Seven Dials, 1994.
Many Histories Deep: The Personal Landscape—Poets in Egypt, 1940–45 by Roger Bowen, Associated University Presses, Cranbury, NJ, USA, 1995.
Our Street: East End Life in the Second World War by Gilda O’Neill, Viking, London, 2003.
Social History of the Jews in England 1850–1950 by V.D. Lipman, Watts & Co., London, 1954.
The Bull’s Eye by Reginald Bell, Cassell, London, 1943.
The Jewish East End, 1840–1939 edited by Aubrey Newman, The Jewish Historical Society of England, London, 1981.
The Story of the London Underground (Unapix Entertainment Inc., 1999)
Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women During World War Two by Karen Anderson, Greenwood Press, Connecticut, USA, 1981.
Whistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London by Jean Friedman, University of Kentucky Press, USA, 1999.
Women in Wartime—The Role of Women’s Magazines 1939–1945 by Jane Waller, Macdonald Optima, London, 1987.
And the following history websites:
http://www.desertrats.org.uk/history.htm
http://ww2history.com/testimony/Western/desert_rat
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=700
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Tank_Mk_VI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_III
http://www.griffonmerlin.com/2011/02/11/recreating-wartime-cairo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Polyanthus_(K47)
http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship3075.html
http://ianchadwick.com/blog/the-sinking-of-the-st-croixseptember-1943/