Bibliography and Sources
1. Archive sources
2. Published documents and reports
3. Official histories
4. Contemporary publications and memoirs
5. Publications since 1950
1. ARCHIVE SOURCES
United Kingdom
Air Historical Branch, Northolt, Middlesex
AHB narratives
German document translations, vols I–XII
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Gilbert Murray papers
Arthur Ponsonby papers
Richard Stokes papers
Camden Local Studies Centre
Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Civil Defence papers
Holborn Borough records
St Pancras Borough records
Christ Church, Oxford
Portal papers
Denis Richards Archive
Churchill College Archive Centre, Cambridge
Sidney Bufton papers
Chartwell Archive
Malcolm Christie papers
Winston S. Churchill papers
A. V. Hill papers
John Hodsoll papers
Hull History Centre
Civil Defence papers
Edgar Young papers
Imperial War Museum, London
Enemy Document Section papers
Italian Series (Air Force), Boxes 1–25
Erhard Milch documents
Speer Collection, German private firms
Speer Collection, Hamburg and Flensburg series
London Metropolitan Archive, Clerkenwell
Air Raid Precautions: London Region
Civil Defence papers
London School of Economics
Hugh Dalton papers
Fellowship of Reconciliation papers
National Peace Council
Peace Pledge Union papers
Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom
The National Archives, Kew, London
Admiralty
Air Ministry
Defence Ministry
Foreign Office (Ministry of Economic Warfare, Political Warfare Executive)
Home Office
Metropolitan Police
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Home Security
Ministry of Information
Ministry of Supply
Prime Minister’s papers
John Slessor papers
War Office
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
H. Stanley Jevons papers
Nuffield College, Oxford
Lord Cherwell papers
Parliamentary Archive, Westminster
Harold Balfour papers
Beaverbrook papers
RAF Museum, Hendon, London
Norman Bottomley papers
Sholto Douglas papers
Arthur Travers Harris papers
Trafford Leigh-Mallory papers
Richard Peirse papers
Robert Saundby papers
Arthur Tedder papers
Royal Society, London
Patrick Blackett papers
Tyne and Wear Archive, Discovery Museum, Newcastle
Civil Defence records (Gateshead, Newcastle, Sunderland, Whitley Bay)
University of East Anglia, Special Collections
Solly Zuckerman Archive
University Library, Cambridge
Baldwin papers
Anthony Boyle papers, interviews with Arthur Harris
Needham papers
Templewood papers
York City Archive
Civil Defence records
France
Château de Vincennes, Archives de la Défense
Archives du secrétariat d’état à l’aviation
Archives du secrétariat général à la défense aérienne, 1940–1944
Germany
Bundesarchiv-Berlin
NS-Partei-Kanzlei
Organisation Todt
Reichsarbeitsministerium
Reichskanzlei
Reichsministerium des Innern
Reichsministerium für Bewaffnung und Munition
Reichspropagandaleitung-NSDAP
Reichswirtschaftsministerium
Statistisches Reichsamt
Wirtschaftsgruppe Gas- und Wasserversorgung
Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv
Dienststellen für technische Erprobungen der Luftwaffe
Generalluftzeugmeister
Göring-Akten
Kriegswissenschaftliche Abteilung
Luftflotte 3
Luftschutztruppe
Reichsluftschutzbund
Reichsminister der Luftfahrt
Wirtschaft- und Rüstungsstab papers
Italy
Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome
Ministero dell’Aeronautica
Ministero dell’Interno
Malta
National Archives of Malta
ARP papers, 1934–1945
Russia
Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (TsAMO), Podolsk
Generalstab der Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe Führungsstab papers
Luftflotte 4 papers
II Fliegerkorps
Russian State Archive of the Economy, Moscow
People’s Commissariat for the Aircraft Industry
Russian State Military Archive, Moscow
MPVO Headquarters papers
MPVO Leningrad station reports
MPVO Staff Moscow, 1940–1960
MPVO Stalingrad station reports
United States of America
Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
Eighth Air Force archive
Mediterranean Allied Air Forces archives
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York
Morgenthau papers
Franklin D. Roosevelt archive
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Frank Andrews papers
Henry H. Arnold papers
James Doolittle papers
Ira C. Eaker papers
Curtis LeMay papers
Carl Spaatz papers
National Archives II, College Park, Maryland
RG 18 Army Air Forces
RG 94 Office of the Adjutant-General
RG 107 Robert Lovett papers
RG 165 War Department General Staff
RG 208 Office of War Information
RG 218 Joint Chiefs of Staff
RG 243 USSBS documents
United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs
Haywood Hansell papers
Larry Kuter papers
George MacDonald papers
United States Military Academy, West Point
Omar Bradley papers
Benjamin A. Dickson papers
George A. Lincoln papers
2. PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS
Akten zur Deutschen auswärtigen Politik: 1918–1945, 62 vols (Baden-Baden: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1950–95)
Boberach, Heinz (ed), Meldungen aus dem Reich: Die geheimen Lageberichte des Sicherheitsdienstes der SS 1938–1945, 17 vols (Herrsching: Pawlak Verlag, 1984)
Boelcke, Willi (ed), The Secret Conferences of Dr Goebbels, 1939–1943 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967)
Colville, John, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1945 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)
Cox, Sebastian (ed), The Strategic Air War Against Germany, 1939–1945: The Official Report of the British Bombing Survey Unit (London: Frank Cass, 1998)
Daniels, Gordon (ed), A Guide to the Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (London: Royal Historical Society, 1981)
Di Pompeo, Corrado, Più della fame e più dei bombardamenti: Diario dell’occupazione di Roma (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009)
Domarus, Max (ed), Hitler: Reden und Proklomationen,
3 vols (Munich: Süddeutscher Verlag, 1965)
Donnelly, Peter (ed), Mrs. Milburn’s Diaries: An Englishwoman’s Day-to-Day Reflections 1939–1945 (London: Harrap, 1979)
Eberle, Henrik and Uhl, Matthias (eds), The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin (London: John Murray, 2005)
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Churchill and Stalin: Documents from the British Archives (London: F&CO, 2002)
Fröhlich, Elke (ed), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels: Sämtliche Fragmente, 4 vols (Munich: K. G. Saur, 1987)
Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs, 1939–1945 (London: Greenhill Books, 1990)
Gallup, George (ed), The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain 1937–1975, 2 vols (New York: Random House, 1976)
Gilbert, Martin (ed), The Churchill War Papers: Volume II: Never Surrender, May 1940–December 1940 (London: Heinemann, 1994)
Hubatsch, Walther (ed), Hitlers Weisungen für die Kriegführung (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1965)
Hunter, Ian (ed), Winston & Archie: The Collected Correspondence of Winston Churchill and Archibald Sinclair 1915–1960 (London: Politico’s, 2005)
Huston, John W. (ed), American Air Power Comes of Age: General Henry H. ‘Hap’ Arnold’s World War II Diaries, 2 vols (Maxwell, AL: Air University Press, 2002)
International Committee of the Red Cross, Protocols Additional to the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 (Geneva: ICRC, 1977)
Isby, David (ed), Fighting the Bombers: The Luftwaffe’s Struggle Against the Allied Bomber Offensive (London: Greenhill Books, 2003)
Kimball, Warren (ed), Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence, 4 vols (London: Collins, 1984)
Klemperer, Victor, To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942–1945 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999)
Maurer, M. (ed), The US Air Service in World War I, 4 vols (Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1978)
Millgate, Helen (ed), Mr. Brown’s War: A Diary of the Second World War (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999)
Moll, Martin (ed), ‘Führer-Erlasse’ 1939–1945 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997)
Neitzel, Sönke, Tapping Hitler’s Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942–1945 (Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2007)
Nicolson, Nigel (ed), Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters, 1939–1945 (London: Collins, 1967)
Origo, Iris, War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943–1944 (London: Allison & Busby, 2003)
Pontaut, Jean-Marie and Pelletier, Éric (eds), Chronique d’une France occupée: Les rapports confidentiels de la gendarmerie 1940–1945 (Neuilly-sur-Seine: Michel Lafon, 2008)
Roberts, Adam and Guelff, R. (eds), Documents on the Laws of War, 3rd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Savelli, Alfredo, Offesa aerea: mezzi di difesa e protezione (Milan: Gontrano Martucci, 1936)
Schlange-Schoeningen, Hans, The Morning After (London: Gollancz, 1948)
Schramm, Percy (ed), Kriegstagebuch des OKW: Eine Dokumentation, 7 vols (Augsburg: Weltbild, 2007)
Speer, Albert, Spandau: The Secret Diaries (London: Collins, 1976)
Target: Germany. The U.S. Army Air Forces’ Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command’s First Year over Europe (London: HMSO, 1944)
Trevor-Roper, Hugh (ed), Hitler’s Table Talk 1941–1944 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)
Völker, Karl-Heinz, Dokumente und Dokumentarfotos zur Geschichte der Deutschen Luftwaffe (Stuttgart: DVA, 1968)
3. OFFICIAL HISTORIES
Air Ministry, The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force, 1933–1945 (London: Arms and Armour Press, 1983)
British Committee on the Preservation and Restitution of Works of Art, Works of Art in Italy: Losses and Survival in the War: Part I – South of Bologna (London: HMSO, 1945); Part II – North of Bologna (London: HMSO, 1946)
Collier, Basil, The Defence of the United Kingdom (London: HMSO, 1957)
Craven, Wesley F. and Cate, James L., The Army Air Forces in World War II, 7 vols (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1948–58)
Della Volpe, Nicola, Difesa del territorio e protezione antiaerea, 1915–1943: storia, documenti, immagini (Rome: Ufficio storico SME, 1986)
Greenhous, Brereton, Harris, Stephen, Johnston, William and Rawling, William, The Crucible of War 1939–1945: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, vol III (Toronto: Toronto University Press/Department of National Defence, 1994)
Hammond, R. J., Food: Volume III: Studies in Administration and Control (London: HMSO, 1962)
Herington, John, Air War against Germany and Italy 1939–1945 (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1954)
Herington, John, Air Power over Europe 1944–1945 (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1963)
Hinsley, F. H. et al., British Intelligence in the Second World War, 4 vols (London: HMSO, 1979–90)
Hornby, W., Factories and Plant (London: HMSO, 1958)
Maurer, M., Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919–1939, 4 vols (Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1987)
O’Brien, Terence, Civil Defence (London: HMSO, 1955)
Postan, Michael, British War Production (London: HMSO, 1957)
Richards, Denis, Royal Air Force 1939–1945, 3 vols (London: HMSO, 1974)
Ritchie, Sebastian, The RAF, Small Wars and Insurgencies in the Middle East, 1919–1939 (Northolt: Air Historical Branch, 2011)
Statistical Digest of the War (London: HMSO, 1951)
Titmuss, Richard, Problems of Social Policy (London: HMSO, 1950)
Wagner, Ray (ed), The Soviet Air Force in World War II: The Official History (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1973)
Webster, Charles and Frankland, Noble, The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, 4 vols (London: HMSO, 1961)
4. CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS AND MEMOIRS
Anon., A Woman in Berlin (London: Virago Press, 2005)
Arnold, Henry H., Global Mission (New York: Harper & Row, 1949)
A Warden (anon.), From Dusk to Dawn (London: Constable, 1941)
Balfour, Harold, Wings over Westminster (London: Hutchinson, 1973)
Below, Nicolaus von, At Hitler’s Side: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937–1945 (London: Greenhill Books, 2001)
Birse, A. H., Memoirs of an Interpreter (London: Michael Joseph, 1967)
Bond, Horatio (ed), Fire and the Air War (Boston, MA: National Fire Protection Association, 1946)
Brittain, Vera, England’s Hour (London: Continuum, 2005)
Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War, 6 vols (London: Cassell, 1948–54)
Ciano, Galeazzo, Diario 1937–1943, ed. De Felice, Renzo (Milan: RCS, 1990)
Citrine, Walter, In Moscow Now (London: Robert Hale, 1942)
Cot, Pierre, Triumph of Treason (Chicago, IL: Ziff-Davis, 1944)
Cowles, Virginia, Looking for Trouble (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1941)
Davy, M. Bernard, Air Power and Civilisation (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1941)
Deane, John, The Strange Alliance: The Story of American Efforts at Wartime Co-operation with Russia (London: John Murray, 1947)
Docherty, James, Post 381: The Memoirs of a Belfast Air-Raid Warden (Belfast: The Friar’s Bush Press, 1989)
Douglas, Sholto, Years of Command (London: Collins, 1966)
Douhet, Giulio, The Command of the Air, trans. Dino Ferrari (Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983)
Flannery, Harry, Assignment to Berlin (London: Michael Joseph, 1942)
Gafencu, Grigore, The Last Days of Europe: A Diplomatic Journey in 1939 (London: Frederick Muller, 1947)
Galbraith, John K., A Life in Our Times: Memoirs (London: Andre Deutsch, 1981)
Galland, Adolf, The First and the Last (London: Methuen, 1955)
Glover, C. W., Civil Defence (London: Chapman & Hall, 1938)
Goldsworthy, Lowes Dickinson, War: Its Nature, Causes and Cure (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1923)
Graves, Charles, Women in Green: The Story o
f the W.V.S. (London: Heinemann, 1948)
Green, Henry, Caught (London: Hogarth Press, 1943)
Hampe, Erich, … als alles in Scherben fiel (Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 1979)
Hansell, Haywood, The Air Plan that Defeated Hitler (Atlanta, GA: Higgins McArthur, 1972)
Harris, Arthur T., Bomber Offensive (London: Collins, 1947)
Harrisson, Tom, Living Through the Blitz (London: Collins, 1976)
Hayes, Denis, Challenge of Conscience: The Story of the Conscientious Objectors of 1939–1949 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949)
Heinkel, Ernst, He 1000 (London: Hutchinson, 1956)
Heller, Joseph, Catch 22 (London: Vintage, 1994)
Hunt, Irmgard, On Hitler’s Mountain: My Nazi Childhood (London: Atlantic Books, 2005)
Hyde, H. Montgomery and Nuttall, G. R. Falkiner, Air Defence and the Civil Population (London: The Cresset Press, 1937)
Idle, E. Doreen, War over West Ham: A Study of Community Adjustment (London: Faber & Faber, 1943)
Iklé, Frederick, ‘The Effect of War Destruction upon the Ecology of Cities’, Social Forces, 29 (1950–51), 383–91
Jameson, Storm (ed), Challenge to Death (London: Constable, 1934)
Jesse, F. Tennyson and Harwood, H. M., While London Burns (London: Constable, 1942)
Jones, R. V., Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
Kaplan, Chaim, Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966)
Kempe, A. B. C., Midst Bands and Bombs (Maidstone: ‘Kent Messenger’, 1946)
Kesselring, Albert, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Kesselring (London: Greenhill Books, 2007)
Klibansky, Raymond (ed), Mussolini’s Memoirs 1942–1943 (London: Phoenix Press, 2000)
Klotz, Helmut, Militärische Lehren des Burgerkrieges in Spanien (self-published, 1937)
Klukowski, Andrew and Klukowski, Helen (eds), Diary from the Years of Occupation: Zygmunt Klukowski (Urbana, IL: Illinois University Press, 1993)
Knocke, Heinz, I Flew for the Führer (London: Evans Brothers, 1953)
Ley, Willy, Bombs and Bombing (New York: Modern Age Books, 1941)
Lloyd, Hugh, Briefed to Attack: Malta’s Part in the African Victory (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949)
Lucas, Laddie, Malta: The Thorn in Rommel’s Side (London: Penguin, 1993)
Magaieva, Svetlana and Pleysier, Albert, Surviving the Blockade of Leningrad (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006)
Maisky, Ivan, Memoirs of a Soviet Ambassador (London: Hutchinson, 1967)
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