Dukes, Sir Paul, Red Dusk and the Morrow (Williams and Norgate 1922)
The Story of ST-25 (Cassell 1938)
The Unending Quest (Cassell 1950)
Agar, Augustus, Footprints in the Sea (Evans Brothers 1959)
Baltic Episode (Hodder and Stoughton 1963)
Dukes’s books have been out of print for sixty years and rarely appear on the second-hand market. Agar’s books are also out of print, but are slightly easier to find.
In 1967 Agar recorded an interview for the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive. Sadly it only covers the period up to his sinking of the Oleg. At the time of writing, those with Internet access can hear the complete interview at the website of his old school: www.oldframlinghamian.com/images/articles/AgarVC.mp3
Andrew, Christopher, Secret Service (Heinemann 1985)
Arthur, Max, Symbol of Courage (Pan Macmillan 2005)
Bainton, Roy, Honoured By Strangers – The Life of Captain Francis Cromie CB DSO RN (Airlife Publishing 2002)
Bell, Henry M., Land of the Lakes (Robert Hale, London 1950). Bennett, Geoffrey, Freeing The Baltic (Birlinn 2002)
Bittner, Lt Col D. F. and Coleby, Captain J. M., Royal Marine Spies (Royal Marines Historical Society 1993)
Bowen, Tom, The Red Web (Aurum Press 1989)
Brogan, Hugh, The Life of Arthur Ransome (Jonathan Cape 1984)
Signalling from Mars: The Letters of Arthur Ransome (Jonathan Cape 1997)
Bruce-Lockhart, R. H., Memoirs of a British Agent (Pan Macmillan 2002)
Calder, Robert, Willie, the Life of W. Somerset Maugham (William Heinemann 1989)
Cook, Andrew, Ace of Spies (Tempus Publishing 2002)
M: MI5’s First Spymaster (Tempus Publishing 2004)
Dawson, Lionel, Sound of the Guns: The Story of Sir Walter Cowan (Pen in Han 1949)
Deacon, Richard, A History of the Russian Secret Service (Frederick Muller Ltd 1972)
Fisher, John, Gentleman Spies (Sutton Publishing 2002)
Gade, John A., All My Born Days – Experiences of a Naval Intelligence Officer in Europe (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1942)
Gefter, A., Reminiscences of a Courier – Archives of the Russian Revolution, Vol. X, pp. 149–164. (Slovo Publishers, Berlin 1924)
Hart-Davis, Rupert, The Life of Hugh Walpole (Macmillan and Co 1952)
Humphries, Roy, The Dover Patrol 1914–1918 (Sutton Publishing 1998)
Ireland, Bernard, War at Sea (Cassell, 2002)
Jackson, Robert, Aces’ Twilight (Sphere Books 1988)
Judd, Alan, The Quest for ‘C’ – Mansfield Cumming and the founding of the Secret Service (Harper Collins 1999)
Knightley, Phillip, The Second Oldest Profession (Pimlico 2003)
Landau, Henry, All’s Fair (Blue Ribbon Books 1934)
Leggett, George, The Cheka (Clarendon Press, 1981)
Linklater, Andro, Compton Mackenzie: A Life (The Hogarth Press 1992)
Morgan, Janet, The Secrets of the Rue St Roch (Allen Lane 2004)
Munson, Kenneth, Fighters 1914–18 (Blandford Press 1968)
Bombers 1914–18 (Blandford Press 1968)
Piper, Leonard, Dangerous Waters – The Life and Death of Erskine Childers (Hambledon and London 2003)
Radcliffe, Maud, A Baltic Story (Published privately, London 1993)
Ransome, Arthur, Autobiography (Jonathan Cape 1976)
Thornycroft, Sir John I., A Short History of the Revival of the Small Torpedo Boat (privately published 1920)
Walpole, Hugh, The Secret City (Sutton Publishing 1997)
Welch, Frances, The Romanovs and Mr Gibbes (Short Books 2002)
West, Nigel, MI6 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1983)
Who’s Who
Janes Fighting Ships 1919
Captain Stephen R. New, Unpublished MA Dissertation: ‘The Development and Operational Use of Coastal Motor Boats 1904–1919’.
Imperial War Museum:
The personal diary and papers of Captain Augustus Agar
The papers of Sub-lieutenant John White Hampsheir
The papers of Squadron Leader Eric Brewerton
National Maritime Museum:
The papers of Admiral Sir Walter Cowan
The papers of Captain Osman Giddy
Memoir of Sub-lieutenant Francis Howard RNR by Captain Vincent Howard RN
National Archives:
Foreign and Colonial Office Lists
Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve records
RAF Museum, Hendon:
The papers of James MacGregor Fairbrother
British Library Newspaper Archive at Colindale:
The Times
Daily Express
The Daily Telegraph
Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University:
The personal diaries and papers of Sir Paul Dukes