A Game of Birds and Wolves is a work of historical narrative non-fiction. Neither the dialogue nor events described in this book have been fabricated or elaborated, but are taken from diaries, memoirs, first-hand interviews and secondary historical sources according to the best recollections of the various players and protagonists. Where I found minor discrepancies in dialogue between sources, I have used the version closest to the date of the event described.
Associated Press Archive, AP
Bodleian Library, John Johnson Collection
British Film Institute National Archive, BFI
Derby House ‘Area Combined HQ’ blueprints
Duncan, June, unpublished diaries, courtesy of Liverpool Museum
General Register Office, Southport, GRO
Gretton Family Papers, private collection of Michael Gretton
Hall, (née Carlisle) Mary, unpublished memoir, courtesy of Second World War Experience Centre
Horsfall, Mary Charlotte, eulogy, courtesy of Jez Robinson
Imperial War Museum, IWM
Kensington and Chelsea Local Authority Archives, KCLA
Laidlaw, Jean, Last Will and Testament
Lamb, John, Last Tales of a Dog-Watch, unpublished memoir
Naval History.net, NHN
Osborne, Nancy, unpublished memoir
Osborne, Fred, Looking Astern After 50 Years, self-published memoir, Sydney, 1995
Parkin, Dynley, unpublished memoir
Roberts Family Papers, private collection of Susan Osman
Roberts, Gilbert, Life and Letters of Gilbert Howland Roberts, unpublished diaries
The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, TNA
U-boat Archive.net, UBA
Wales, Nancy, eulogy, courtesy of Bridger Anthony
Wartime Memories Project, WMP
Western Approaches Museum, Liverpool, WAM
WW2 People’s War Archive, BBC
Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library, YLS