For the serious student of Operation Chastise, the books, magazine articles and websites listed below are recommended.
Arthur, Max, Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History (Virgin Books: London, 2008).
Bateman, Alex, Aviation Elite Units 34: No 617 ‘Dambuster’ Sqn (Osprey Publishing: Oxford, 2009).
Brown, Ken, ‘Ken Brown CGM: Dam buster’ Bomber Command Museum of Canada (Bomber Command Museum of Canada: Nanton, Canada, 1993). Website, available online at: www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/kenbrown.html
Cooper, Alan, The Men Who Breached the Dams (Airlife Publishing: Shrewsbury, 2002).
Cotter, Jarrod, ‘Avro Lancaster’, Aviation Classics, No. 1, November 2009.
Dambusters 2010 Dambusters website, available at: www.dambusters.org.uk
Euler, Helmuth, The Dams Raid Through the Lens (After the Battle: Old Harlow, 2001).
Foster, Charles, Breaking the Dams: The Story of Dambuster David Maltby and His Crew (Pen & Sword Books: Barnsley, 2008).
Fraser, John ‘John Fraser & “Hoppy”’, Bomber Command Museum of Canada (Bomber Command Museum of Canada: Nanton, Canada, 2010). Website, available online at: www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/fraserhoppy.html
Gibson, Guy, Enemy Coast Ahead (Michael Joseph: London, 1953).
Gibson, Guy, Enemy Coast Ahead, annotated and illustrated by Chaz Bowyer (Bridge Books: Wrexham, 1995).
McCormac, Mike, ‘Re-flying the Dams Raid’, After the Battle, No. 82, May 1993.
Morris, Richard, Guy Gibson (Penguin Books: London, 1995).
Extending the enthusiastic publicity attending the successful Dambusters Raid, Sqn Ldr David J. Maltby, DSO, DFC, and Acting Wg Cdr Guy P. Gibson, VC, DSO, DFC, were photographed in July, as they posed in Gibson’s Hangar 2 second-floor corner office (note fake window scenery), ostensibly reviewing magazines publicising their dramatic exploits. (IWM Photo TR 1122)
Munro, Les, ‘A Kiwi with the Dam Busters’, Aviation Classics, No. 1, November 2009.
National Archives, Dambusters (National Archives: Richmond, UK, 2010). Website, available online at: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/dambusters
Ottaway, Susan, Dambuster: The Life of Guy Gibson VC, DSO, DFC (Pen & Sword Books: Barnsley, 2007).
Ramsay, Winston G., ‘The Ruhr Dams Raid 1943’, After the Battle, No. 3, August 1973.
Sweetman, John, The Dambusters Raid (Arms & Armour Press, London: 1990).
Thorning, Arthur G., The Dambuster Who Cracked the Dam (Pen & Sword Books: Barnsley, 1998).
Ward, Chris, and Andreas Wachtel, Dambuster Crash Sites: 617 Dambuster Squadron Crash Sites in Holland and Germany (Pen & Sword Books: Barnsley, 2007).
Ward, Chris, Andy Lee and Andreas Wachtel, Dambusters: The Definitive History of 617 Squadron at War 1943–1945 (Red Kite: Walton-on-Thames, 2008).
Ward, Chris and Andy Lee, Images of War: 617 Dambusters Squadron at War (Pen & Sword Books: Barnsley, 2009).