The Battle of Britain

by James Holland

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  General

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  —, Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 (Harper Press, 2003)

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  —, Kent Airfields in the Second World War (Countryside Books, 1998)

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  —, The People’s War: Britain 1939–1945 (Pimlico, 1992)

  —, and Dorothy Sheridan (eds.), Speak for Yourself: A Mass Observation Anthology 1937–1949 (Oxford University Press, 1985)

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  —, The Sands of Dunkirk (Collins, 1961)

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  Cowling, Maurice, The Impact of Hitler: British Politics and British Policy 1933–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 1975)

  Cull, Brian, 249 at War: The Authorized History of the RAF’s Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron of WWII (Grub Street, 1997)

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  Dallek, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 1932–1945 (Oxford University Press, 1995)

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  Deighton, Len, Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk (Pimlico, 2007)

  —, Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain (Pimlico, 1996)

  —, and Max Hastings, Battle of Britain (Jonathan Cape, 1980)

  Demarne, Cyril, The London Blitz: A Fireman’s Tale (After the Battle, 1991)

  Dierich, Wolfgang, Kampfgeschwader ‘Edelweis’: The History of a German Bomber Unit 1939–1945 (Ian Allan, 1975)

  Dobinson, Colin, AA Command: Britain’s Anti-Aircraft Defences of the Second World War (Methuen, 2001)

  Donnelly, Larry, The Other Few (Red Kite, 2004)

  Earnshaw, James Douglas, 609 at War (Vector Fine Art, 2004)

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  Engel, Major Gerhard, At the Heart of the Reich: The Secret Diary of Hitler’s Army Adjutant (Greenhill Books, 2005)

  Faber, David, Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis (Pocket Books, 2009)

  Felton, Monica, Civilian
Supplies in Wartime Britain (The Ministry of Information, 1945)

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  Fleming, Peter, Operation Sea Lion (Pan, 1975)

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  —, Aircraft versus Aircraft: The Illustrated Story of Fighter Pilot Combat from 1914 to the Present Day (Chancellor Press, 2001)

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  Garfield, Simon, We are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times (Ebury Press, 2006)

  Gelb, Norman, Scramble: A Narrative History of the Battle of Britain (Michael Joseph, 1986)

  German Foreign Office, Documents on the Events Preceding the Outbreak of War (German Library of Information, 1940)

  Gilbert, Martin, Churchill and America (The Free Press, 2005)

  Gillies, Midge, Waiting for Hitler: Voices from Britain on the Brink of Invasion (Hodder & Stoughton, 2007)

  Goodman, Susan, Children of War (John Murray, 2005)

  Goss, Chris, Brothers in Arms: The Story of a British and German Fighter Unit, August to December 1940 (Crécy, 1994)

  —, The Luftwaffe Bombers’ Battle of Britain (Crécy, 2000)

  —, The Luftwaffe Fighters’ Battle of Britain (Crécy, 2000)

  Graves, Charles, The Home Guard of Great Britain (Hutchinson, 1943)

  Graves, Robert, and Alan Hodge, The Long Weekend 1918–1939: A Social History of Great Britain (Abacus, 1995)

  Gretzyngier, Robert, Poles in Defence of Britain (Grub Street, 2001)

  Griehl, Manfred, and Joachim Dressel, Luftwaffe Combat Aircraft: Development, Productions, Operations, 1935–1945 (Schiffer Military History, 1994)

  Grunberger, Richard, A Social History of the Third Reich (Phoenix, 2005)

  Gunston, Bill, The Illustrated Dictionary of Fighting Aircraft of World War II (Salamander Books, 1988)

  Hammerston, Sir John (ed.), ABC of the RAF (The Amalgamated Press, 1943)

  Handel, Michael I. (ed.), Intelligence and Military Operations (Frank Cass, 1990)

  Harrison, Tom, and Charles Madge, War Begins at Home by Mass Observation (Chatto & Windus, 1940)

  Harrison Place, Timothy, Military Training in the British Army, 1940–1944 (Frank Cass, 2000)

  Hastings, Max, Bomber Command (Book Club Associates, 1980)

  Hewitt, Nick, Coastal Convoys 1939–1945: The Indestructible Highway (Pen & Sword, 2008)

  HMSO, The British War Blue Book (The Musson Book Company, 1939)

  —, The Penguin Hansard, 1: From Chamberlain to Churchill (Penguin, 1940)

  Hooton, E. R., Eagle in Flames: The Fall of the Luftwaffe (Brockhampton Press, 1997)

  Horne, Alistair, To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (Papermac, 1990)

  Hough, Richard, The Longest Battle: The War at Sea, 1939–45 (Cassell, 2001)

  —, and Denis Richards, The Battle of Britain (Penguin, 2001)

  Hunt, Roger (trans.), Death’s Head: Combat Record of the SS Totenkopf Division in France 1940 (Roger Hunt, 1979)

  Hylton, Stuart, Their Darkest Hour: The Hidden History of the Home Front 1939–1945 (Sutton, 2003)

  Irving, David (ed.), Breach of Security: The German Secret Intelligence File on Events Leading to the Second World War (William Kimber, 1968)

  Ishoven, Armand, The Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain (Ian Allan, 1980)

  Julian, Marcel, The Battle of Britain, July–September 1940 (Jonathan Cape, 1967)

  Kaplan, Philip, Spitfire: The One (Vine House International, 2008)

  —, and Richard Collier, The Few: Summer 1940, the Battle of Britain (Seven Dials, 1990)

  —, and Jack Currie, Wolfpack: U-Boats at War, 1939–1945 (Aurum, 1997)

  Kay, Anthony L., and J. R. Smith, German Aircraft of the Second World War (Putnam, 2002)

  Kennedy, John F., Why England Slept (Hutchinson, 1940)

  Kershaw, Alex, The Few: The American Knights of the Air Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain (Da Capo, 2006)

  Kershaw, Ian, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940–1941 (Allen Lane, 2007)

  Koa Wing, Sandra (ed.), Our Longest Days: A People’s History of the Second World War (Profile Books, 2008)

  Lampe, David, The Last Ditch: Britain’s Secret Resistance and the Nazi Invasion Plan (Cassell, 1968)

  Lee, Cyrus A., Soldat, Vol. 1: Equipping the German Army Foot Soldier in Europe, 1939–1942 (Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1992)

  Le Tissier, Tony, The Third Reich Then and Now (After the Battle, 2005)

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  —, The Other Side of the Hill (Cassell, 1948)

  Longmate, Norman, The Bombers: The RAF Offensive against Germany, 1939–1945 (Hutchinson, 1983)

  —, The Real Dad’s Army: The Story of the Home Guard (Arrow, 1974)

  Lord, Walter, The Miracle of Dunkirk (Penguin, 1982)

  Lukacs, John, The Duel: Hitler vs Churchill 10 May–31 July 1940 (Phoenix, 2000)

  —, Five Days in London May 1940 (Yale University Press, 1999)

  Lund, Paul, and Harry Ludlam, Trawlers Go to War (New English Library, 1972)

  Mallmann Showell, Jak P., Hitler’s Navy: A Reference Guide to the Kriegsmarine, 1935–1945 (Seaforth, 2009)

  Marix Evans, Martin, The Fall of France: Act With Daring (Osprey, 2000)

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  —, Front Line 1940–41: The Official Story of the Civil Defence of Britain (HMSO, 1942)

  —,Land at War (HMSO, 1945)

  —, Merchantmen at War: The Official Story of the Merchant Navy, 1939–1944 (HMSO, 1944)

  Mitcham, Samuel W., Eagles of the Third Reich (Airlife, 1989)

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  —, and Allan R. Millett (eds.), Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

  Nagorski, Tom, Miracles on the Water (Robinson, 2007)

  Nauroth, Holgar, Jagdgeschwader 2 ‘Richthofen’ (Motorbuch Verlag, 1999)

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  —, and Paul Blackah, Supermarine Spitfire: Owner’s Workshop Manual (Haynes, 2007)

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  —, In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (Allen Lane, 2004)

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  —, Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West (Allen Lane, 2008)

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