198. Ashcroft, Heroes of the Skies.
199. Gammon.
200. ‘Getting to Grips with Amazing Bader.’
201. Ramsden, The Dam Busters: A British Film Guide.
202. Turner.
203. Graham, Memoirs of a Private Man.
204. Greenfield, A Smattering of Monsters.
205. Embry, Preface, Escape or Die.
206. H. E. Bates, Introduction, Escape or Die.
207. Australian, 6 December 1969.
208–209. Age, 26 June 1954.
210–214. ‘Getting to Grips with Amazing Bader.’
215. Dundy.
216. Starck, Proud Australian Boy.
217. Divorce Papers.
218–219. Ibid. This was Brickhill’s version of events.
220–222. ‘Coming to Grips with Amazing Bader.’
223–224. Turner.
19: Reaching for the Sky
225. Age, 26 June 1954.
226–227. Divorce Papers.
228. PB to WC, 28 January 1953.
229. People, 20 May 1953.
230. PB to WC, 28 January 1953.
231. Age, 26 June 1954.
232. Sun-Herald, 29 November 1959.
233–234. Australian Women’s Weekly, 1 April 1953.
235. Divorce Papers.
236–238. People, 20 May 1953.
239. Mrs Dorothy Grace Joy.
240–241. PB to WC, 31 March 1953.
242. Sydney Morning Herald¸ 5 April 1953.
243. ‘Getting to Grips with Amazing Bader.’
244. PB to WC, 22 June 1953.
245. ‘Getting to Grips with Amazing Bader.’
246–247. PB to WC, 23 June 1953.
248. Turner.
249. Divorce Papers.
250. Sunday Herald, 12 July 1953.
251. From a 7 July 1953 letter by Collins to Brickhill.
252. PB to MBC, 24 April 1962.
253. PB to WC, 31 August 1953.
254. Adelaide News, 17 August 1953.
255. Argus, 20 August 1953.
256. PB to WC, 31 August 1953.
257. Northern Champion, 8 September 1953.
258. PB to WC, 31 August 1953.
259. DH to WC, 7 September 1953.
20: The Dam Busters Crisis
260. ‘Getting to Grips with Amazing Bader.’
261. Divorce Papers.
262. 26 November 1953.
263. Newcastle Sun, 7 January 1954.
264. Adelaide News, 24 April 1954.
265. Divorce Papers.
266. Greenfield.
267. Barrier Miner, 27 May 1954.
268. PB to JP, 15 April 1954.
269–270. Divorce Papers.
271. PB to WC, 28 August 1954.
272. PB to WC, 7 August 1954.
273. MB to WC, 8 August 1954.
274. 9 September 1954.
275. Daily Mail, 2 November 1954.
21: A Slap in the Face
276. Humphries obituary, Times, 21 February 2008.
277. Daily Express, 2 November 1954.
278. PB to WC, 2 December 1954.
279. Divorce Papers.
280. Borehamwood & Elstree Times, 16 April 2013.
281. Ramsden.
22: End of Exile
282. Ramsden.
283. New Statesman, 28 May and 9 July 1955.
284. Divorce Papers.
285–288. Divorce Papers.
23: Return to Oz
289–291. Divorce Papers.
292. Lovell, Escape Artist.
293–294. Gulick, Sixty-Four Years as a Writer.
295. Lovell.
296. Divorce Papers.
297. ML to author, 4 November 2014.
298. Divorce Papers.
299. ML to author, 4 November 2014.
300. Divorce Papers.
301. PB to ML, 18 July 1960.
302. Lovell.
303–305. Divorce Papers.
24: John Sturges’ Great Escape
306. Divorce Papers.
307. PB to MBC, 24 April 1962.
308. MBC to WC, 1 May 1962.
309. PB to MBC, 10 July 1962.
310. Divorce Papers.
25: War of Nerves
311. Divorce Papers.
26: The Artful Dodger
312. Review extracts taken from 1964 Fontana edition.
313. Court transcript, Divorce Papers.
27: Back, for Good
314. Divorce Papers.
315. Watertown Daily Times, 15 March 1968.
316. Canberra Times, 27 January 1967.
317. West Australian, 2 December 1969.
318. Australian, 6 December 1969.
319. Daily Telegraph, 6 December 1969.
320. Sydney Morning Herald, 8 December 1969.
321. Age, 1 May 1982.
28: The Final Chapter
322. Age, 1 May 1982.
323. Age, 1 May 1982.
324. Sunday Telegraph, 15 March 1981.
325. Age, 1 May 1982.
29: Upon Reflection
326. Carroll, The Dodger.
327. 26 April 1991.
328. 26 April 1991.
329. Ramsden.
330. Sunday Age, 15 February 2015.
331. London Telegraph, 19 February 2013.
332. ‘Great Escape: The Untold Story.’
333. Harsh.
334. Canberra Times, 25 March 1984.
335. London Telegraph, 12 April 2013.
336. Diggs, Americans Behind the Barbed Wire.
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Advertiser, Adelaide, 1954
Age, Melbourne, 1954, 1982, 2015
Albury Banner, Wodonga Express & Riverina Stock Journal, 1941
Army News, Darwin, 1945
Australasian Post, 1953
Australian, 1969, 1991
Australian Women’s Weekly, 1950–1963
Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, 1954
Borehamwood & Elstree Times, UK, 2013
Canberra Times, 1959, 1984, 1991
Chronicle, Adelaide, 1955
Courier-Mail, Brisbane, 1945, 1949, 1969
Daily Advertiser, Wagga Wagga, 1941
Daily Express, London, 1949, 1955
Daily Mail, London, 2010, 2013
Daily Mail Australia, 2013
Daily News, Perth (WA), 1943
Daily Telegraph, Launceston (Tas), 1881–1924
Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 1960, 1969
Dungong Chronicle/Durham & Gloucester Advertiser (NSW), 1953
Examiner, Launceston (Tas), 1880–1991
Flight, 1955
Goulburn Evening Post, 1954
Guardian, London, 1991
London Free Press, Canada, 2014
Mail, Adelaide, 1927
Mercury, Hobart, 1880–1991
Newcastle Morning Herald, NSW, 1953
Newcastle Sun, NSW, 1946, 1954
News, Adelaide, 1945–1959
New Statesman, London, 1955
New Zealand Herald, Auckland, 2015
North Western Advocate & Emu Bay Times, Burnie, 1903–1904
Northern Champion, Taree, 1953
Observer, London, 1951
Ottawa Citizen, 1941
Ottawa Journal, 1941
People, Sydney, 1953
Recorder, Port Pirie, 1922–1952
Register & Post Herald, Beckley, West Virginia, 1967
Sun-Herald, Sydney, 1950, 1954, 1982
Sunday Mail, Brisbane, 1945, 1953
Sydney Mail & New South Wales Advertiser, 1909
Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, 1981
Sydney Morning Herald, 1945, 1952, 1954, 1969
Telegraph, London, 2008, 2013–2015
Table Talk, Melbourne, 1917, 1919
Times, London, 1981, 1991
Watertown Daily Times, Wisconsin, 1968
West Australian, Perth (WA), 1953, 1969
Windsor & Richmond Gazette, NSW, 1950–59
NOTES & LETTERS
Paul Brickhill to Arthur Fincham, (undated) 1946. Private Collection, London
Paul Brickhill to Maria Lupp, 18 July 1960. Private Collection, Western Australia
Paul Brickhill to John Pudney, 14 April 1954. The Pudney Papers, Correspondence Index 3.11, (Ransom Center, University of Texas), Austin, Texas
Correspondence from Paul Brickhill to Del Fox, 1939–1945, PR03099, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Correspondence between Paul Brickhill and Mark Bonham-Carter. University of Glasgow Archive Services, William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd collection, GB248 UGD 243/1/11/1
Correspondence between Paul Brickhill and William ‘Billy’ Collins, University of Glasgow Archive Services, William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd collection, GB248 UGD 243/1/11/9
Correspondence from Paul Brickhill regarding Escape to Danger. Australian War Memorial, Canberra. AWM93, 50/2/23/349
OFFICIAL RECORDS
Brickhill Paul Chester Jerome 403313, AWM65 414. Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Brickhill P. C. J., A13950. National Archives of Australia, Canberra
Manifests Passenger – Outwards Ships, and Manifests Passenger – Outwards
Aircraft/Sydney, April–June 1949, SP1148/2. National Archives of Australia, Chester Hill, NSW
NSW Electoral Rolls, 1930–1966
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Commons (UK), 23 June 1944
‘Prisoners of War Bulletin’, American National Red Cross, Vol 3 No 3, March 1945
Victorian Electoral Rolls, 1911–1920
World War II service record, P. C. J. Brickhill, A9300. National Archives of Australia, Canberra
World War II casualty file, P. C. J. Brickhill, A705, item 166/6/81. National Archives of Australia, Canberra
PAPERS
Divorce Papers, Margaret Olive Brickhill-Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill. NSW State Archives, Kingsgrove. 514/1962
ORAL HISTORY
Jack Donald. Australian War Memorial, Canberra, S00952
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY
‘Great Escape: The Untold Story.’ Granada Television, UK, 2001.
ONLINE
‘Brickhill, Paul Chester (1916–1991)’, Craig Wilcox, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/bio
graphy/brickhill-paul-chester-14647/text25780, published online 2014 ‘RCAF Uplands.’ http://rcafuplands.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/course-31.html
‘A Cobra in the Sky: 92 Squadron, Royal Air Force.’ http://sirius1935.wix.com/92Squadron
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