BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING

Papers and archives

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dicks, reference: PP/HVD in the Wellcome Library, London.

Private papers of Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick, the Kendrick archive, Military Intelligence Museum, Chicksands.

War diaries of Bernard Trench (2017/24/27 to 2017/24/30), National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth.

The RAF Medmenham Collection.

Townshend/Jestin archive, used by kind permission of the Jestin family.

Gunther von Reibnitz file, the archives of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.

Harriet Cohen papers and correspondence, British Library, ref: 1999/10.

Imperial War Museum

‘Camp Z Diary 1941-1942,’ by Lieutenant Colonel A. Malcolm Scott, IWM, ref: 69/66/1.

Private papers and unpublished memoirs of Eric Gedye MBE, IWM, ref: 22580.

Private papers of Squadron Officer Vera M. Atkins CBE, IWM, ref: 12636.

Unpublished memoirs of Lt-Cdr Donald Burkewood Welbourn, RNVR, IWM, ref: 99/6/1.

General Sir Walter Kirke’s papers, IWM.

Interviews

This book draws on interviews with Barbara Lloyd and Ken Walsh (Kendrick’s grandchildren); secret listeners Fritz Lustig, Eric Mark and Paul Douglas, and relatives of secret listeners and intelligence staff. Interviews also with former female intelligence staff: Susan Lustig (née Cohn), Elisabeth Bruegger (née Rees-Mogg), Evelyn Barron and Cynthia Turner (née Crew).

The National Archives

ADM 1/10579, ADM 1/18422, ADM 1/23905, ADM 116/4572, ADM 186/805, ADM 186/809, ADM 223/257, ADM 223/472, ADM 223/481, AIR 14/743, AIR 14/744, AIR 16/1266, AIR 29/1104, AIR 40/2394, AIR 40/2572, AIR 40/2636, AIR 40/2839, AIR 40/3070, AIR 40/3093, AIR 40/3102, AIR 40/3106, AIR 40/3108, CAB 113/41, CAB 120/748, CAB 121/236, DEFE 1/339, ED 78/418, ED 78/419, FO 366/1036, FO 369/2480, FO 371/18351, FO 371/21663, FO 371/21685, FO 371/21691, FO 371/21693, FO 371/21748, FO 371/21755, FO 371/22315, FO 371/22321, FO 372/3283, FO 372/3284, FO 395/562, FO 741/5, FO 898/320, FO 1093/1 – FO 1093/16 (Hess files), FO 1093/200, FO 1093/201, GFM 33/849, HO 213/1635, HO 405/45567, HS 6/623, HW 25/2, HW 57/35, KV 2/34, KV 2/269, KV 2/578, KV 2/593, KV 2/1008, KV 2/1009, KV 2/1012, KV 2/1013, KV 2/1014, KV 2/2024, KV 2/2136, KV 2/2186, KV 2/2349, KV 2/2350, KV 2/2351, KV 2/2352, KV 2/2353, KV 2/2354, KV 2/2516, KV 2/2672, KV 2/3068, KV 2/3766, KV 2/3767, KV 2/4091, KV 2/4092, KV 2/403, KV 2/4170, KV 2/4428, KV 3/11, KV 3/116, KV 3/230, KV 3/293, KV 3/316, KV 4/302, PREM 3/219/5, WO 32/8112, WO 32/10720, WO 94/105, WO 106/45, WO 165/39, WO 165/41, WO 188/796, WO 193/791, WO 208/3433, WO 208/3451, WO 208/3455, WO 208/3456, WO 208/3457, WO 208/3466, WO 208/3474, WO 208/3504, WO 208/3582, WO 208/4202, WO 208/4117, WO 208/4121, WO 208/4123, WO 208/4128, WO 208/4131, WO 208/4136, WO 208/4137, WO 208/4141, WO 208/4148, WO 208/4158, WO 208/4165, WO 208/4166, WO 208/4167, WO 208/4168, WO 208/4169, WO 208/4177, WO 208/4178, WO 208/4196, WO 208/4199, WO 208/4292, WO 208/4363, WO 208/4364, WO 208/4471, WO 208/4970, WO 208/4796, WO 208/5016, WO 208/5017, WO 208/5018, WO 208/5019, WO 208/5158, WO 208/5381,WO 208/5549, WO 208/5550, WO 208/5621, WO 208/5622, WO 208/5623, WO 311/54, WO 311/632, WO 339/10993, WO 373/148

Published works

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Andrew, Christopher. The Defence of the Realm: The authorized history of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009.

Baggott, Jim. Atomic: The first war of physics and the secret history of the atom bomb, 1939–1945, Icon, 2015.

Beach, Jim. Haig’s Intelligence: GHQ and the German army, 1916–1918, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Benson, Jackson. Haunted: The strange and profound art of Wright Morris, Jackson Benson, 2013.

Bernstein, Jeremy. Hitler’s Uranium Club: The secret recordings at Farm Hall, Copernicus Books, 2001.

van der Bijl, Nick. Sharing the Secret: The history of the Intelligence Corps, 1940–2010, Pen and Sword, 2020.

Borovik, Genrikh. The Philby Files, Sphere, 1995.

Boyd, Andrew. British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century, Seaforth Publishing, 2020.

Brivati, Brian. Hugh Gaitskell, Richard Cohen Books, 1996.

Brown, Anthony Cave. C: The secret life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Macmillan, 1987.

Brown, Colin. Operation Big: The race to stop Hitler’s A-bomb, Amberley, 2016.

Bryher, The Heart to Artemis, Collins, 1963.

de Burgh, Lucy. My Italian Adventures: An English girl at war 1943–47, The History Press, 2013.

Clare, George. Last Waltz in Vienna, Pan Books, 2007.

Clayton, Anthony. Forearmed: A history of the Intelligence Corps, Brassey’s, 1993.

Cohen, Harriet. A Bundle of Time, Faber & Faber, 1969.

Cookridge, E.H. The Third Man: The full story of Kim Philby, Putnam, 1968.

Corera, Gordon. Operation Columba – The Secret Pigeon Service: The untold story of World War II resistance in Europe, William Morrow, 2018.

Dilks, David (ed.). The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan OM: 1938–1945, Faber & Faber, 2010.

Dorril, Stephen. MI6: Fifty years of special operations, Fourth Estate, 2001.

Drazin, Charles. Korda: Britain’s only movie mogul, Sidgwick & Jackson, 2002.

Everingham, Barry. MC: The adventures of a maverick princess, Bantam Press, 1985.

Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Abducting a General: The Kreipe operation and SOE in Crete, John Murray, 2015.

Ferris, John. Behind the Enigma: The authorised history of GCHQ, Britain’s secret cyber-intelligence agency, Bloomsbury, 2020.

Foot, M.R.D. and Jimmy Langley. MI9: Escape and evasion 1939–1945, BCA, 1979.

Fraser-Smith, Charles. The Secret War of Charles Fraser-Smith, Michael Joseph, 1981.

Fry, Helen. Music and Men: The life and loves of Harriet Cohen, The History Press, 2008.

Fry, Helen. Freuds’ War, The History Press, 2009.

Fry, Helen. Churchill’s German Army, The History Press, 2009.

Fry, Helen. The London Cage: The secret history of Britain’s WWII interrogation centre, Yale University Press, 2017.

Fry, Helen. The Walls Have Ears: The greatest intelligence operation of World War II, Yale University Press, 2019.

Fry, Helen. MI9: A history of the secret service for escape and evasion in World War Two, Yale University Press, 2020.

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Gedye, Eric. Fallen Bastions, Victor Gollancz, 1939.

Gilbert, Martin. Auschwitz and the Allies, Michael Joseph, 1981.

Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: The Jewish tragedy, HarperCollins, 1989.

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Harrison, Edward, The Young Kim Philby, Liverpool University Press, 2012.

Hart, Peter. Journey into Freedom, Authors OnLine, 2003.

Hastings, Max. The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers and Guerrillas 1939–1945, William Collins, 2017.

Helm, Sarah. A Life in Secrets: The story of Vera Atkins and the lost agents of SOE, Little Brown, 2005.

Hoare, Oliver. Camp 020: MI5 and Nazi spies – The official history of MI5’s Wartime Interrogation Centre, Public Record Office, 2000.

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Kenyon, David. Bletchley Park and D-Day, Yale University Press, 2019.

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Articles, chapters in edited books and unpublished works

Bell, Falko. ‘One of our most valuable sources of intelligence: British intelligence and the prisoners of war system in 1944’, Intelligence and National Security, 31:4 (2016), pp. 556–78.

Benton, Kenneth. ‘The ISOS years: Madrid 1941–3’, Journal of Contemporary History, 30:3 (1995), pp. 359–410.

Forbes, Duncan. ‘Politics, photography and exile in the life of Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973)’, in Shulamith Behr and Marian Malet (eds), Arts in Exile in Britain 1933–1945: Politics and cultural identity, Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 2005.

Gibson Graham, Lieutenant Colonel. ‘The case of Rudolph Hess’, no date, unpublished lecture given at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. Copy given to the author.

Hayward, Gil. ‘Dollis Hill in the desert, 1940–44’, Copy in the archives of the Military Intelligence Museum, Chicksands.

Jestin, Heimwarth. ‘A memoir 1918–1946’, unpublished memoirs.

Judge, A.F. ‘History of the Intelligence Corps, 1914–1929’, unpublished, copy at Military Intelligence Museum, Chicksands.

MacDonogh, Giles. ‘A most unfortunate case’, Jewish Quarterly, 51:2 (2004), pp. 57–62.

McFadyean, Melanie. ‘A private war’, Guardian, 6 July 2002.

Maree, D.R. ‘Bicycles in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902’, Military History Journal, 4:1 (1977) (South African Military History Society).

Oldfield, Lieutenant Colonel R.W. ‘Memorandum on the work of the Section of Civic Affairs and Security, General Staff, British Army of the Rhine’, Military Intelligence Museum, Chicksands.

St Clare Grondona, Leo. ‘Sidelights on Wilton Park’, RUSI Journal, December 1970, pp. 34–37.

Simon, Derrick. Unpublished memoirs.

Thwaites, Major General Sir William. ‘The role of forward troops in the collection of intelligence in the field’, lecture to the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, 9 December 1924, Military Intelligence Museum, Chicksands.