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Bibliography

From here, you can view two sections. The first is the listing of primary sources which I used during this dissertation, including documents from the PRO and the Churchill Archive Centre. The second contains all the secondary sources which I consulted. You can also search Amazon.com for the books listed on this page, or any other book.

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Primary Sources

Contemporary Documents (Archives)

  • Administrative arrangements, meetings and papers from symbol (British), PRO, CAB 120/75
  • Churchill, W.S.C., ‘Prime Minister’s Telegrams From North Africa (Casablanca), Turkey, Cyprus (SYMBOL) Jan-Feb 1943’, Churchill Archive Centre, CHAR 20/127/1
  • Churchill, W.S.C., ‘War Cabinet Papers – PM’s directives 1942’, Churchill Archive Centre, CHAR 23/10
  • Churchill, W.S.C., ‘War Cabinet Papers – PM’s directives 1943’, Churchill Archive Centre, CHAR 23/11
  • Conference preparations (British), PRO, CAB 120/75
  • Jacob, I., war diaries, Churchill Archive Centre, JACB 1/20
  • Proposed agenda for SYMBOL (British), COS (34) 6 (0), 6.1.43, PRO, CAB 80/67.
  • "SYMBOL" – Record of a Conference Held at Casablanca in January 1943 (War Cabinet Official Record), PRO, CAB 99/24.
  • TELESCOPE telegrams received at SYMBOL, PRO, CAB 120/79
  • TUBE ALLOYS correspondence, PRO, PREM 3/139/8A
  • ULTRA material received by Churchill from 1.1.43 to 25.1.43, PRO, HW 1/1274-1330

Contemporary Documents (Published)

  • Foreign Relations of the United States: Conferences at Washington, 1941-1942, and Casablanca, 1943 (Washington, 1968)
  • Kimball, W.F. (ed.), Roosevelt and Churchill: The Complete Correspondence (3 volumes, Princeton, 1984)
  • Macmillan, H., War Diaries – Politics and War in the Mediterranean: January 1943 – May 1945 (London, 1984)
  • Rhodes-James, R. (ed.), Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963, volumes 6 and 7 (London, 1974)

Works based on contemporary documents

  • Bryant, A. (ed.), The Turning of the Tide, 1939-1943: a study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshall the Viscount Alanbrooke, K.G., O.M. (London, 1986)
  • Sherwood, R., Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (New York, 1948)

Post-war accounts and memoirs

  • Churchill, W.S.C., The Second World War, volumes 2 and 3 (London, 1949, 1950)
  • Harriman, A., with Abel, E., Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946 (London, 1976)
  • Murphy, R., Diplomat Among Warriors (London, 1964)
  • Ismay, H.L.I., The Memoirs of General the Lord Ismay (London, 1960)
  • Roosevelt, Elliott, As He Saw It (New York, 1946)

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Secondary Sources

Books are listed alphabetically by author. Where I have used a number of articles from a single volume, they are cited individually, and the source volume is listed separately.

  • Alldritt, K., The Greatest of Friends – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, 1941-1945 (London, 1985)
  • Barker, E., Churchill and Eden at War (London, 1978)
  • Ben-Moshe, T., ‘Winston Churchill and the "Second Front": A Reappraisal’, Journal of Modern History 62 (1990)
  • Blake, R., and Louis, W.R. (eds.), Churchill (Oxford, 1996)
  • Campbell, ‘Franklin Roosevelt and Unconditional Surrender’ in Langhorne (ed.), Intelligence
  • Carver, M., ‘Churchill and the Defence Chiefs’ in Blake and Louis (eds.), Churchill
  • Charmley, J., Churchill’s Grand Alliance – The Anglo-American Special Relationship 1940-1957 (London, 1995)
  • Clemens, D.S., Yalta (London, 1970)
  • Dallek, R., Franklin D. Roosevelt and United States Foreign Policy 1932-45 (Oxford, 1974)
  • Danchev, A., Very Special Relationship: Field Marshall Sir John Dill and the Anglo-American Alliance 1941-44 (London, 1986)
  • Dear, I.C.B. and Foot, M.R.D. (eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Second World War (Oxford, 1995)
  • Dockrill, M.L, and McKercher, B.J.C. (eds.), Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1950 (Cambridge, 1996)
  • Edmonds, R., ‘Churchill and Stalin’ in Blake and Louis (eds.), Churchill
  • Frankland, N., Bombing Offensive Against Germany (London, 1965)
  • Gilbert, M., Churchill, Volume VII: Road to Victory 1941-1945 (London, 1989)
  • Gilbert, M., Second World War (London, 1989)
  • Gowing, M., Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945 (London, 1964)
  • Hastings, M., Bomber Command (London, 1979)
  • Hinsley, F.H., British Intelligence in the Second World War, Volume II (London, 1981)
  • Hinsley, F.H., ‘Churchill and the Use of Special Intelligence’ in Blake and Louis (eds.), Churchill
  • Howard, M., Grand Strategy, Volume IV (London, 1972)
  • Hurstfield, J.G., America and the French Nation 1939-1945 (London, 1986)
  • Keegan, J., The Battle at Sea (London, 1988)
  • Keegan, J., The Second World War (London, 1989)
  • Keegan, J. (ed.), The Times Atlas of the Second World War (London, 1989)
  • Keegan, J., ‘Churchill’s Strategy’ in Blake and Louis (eds.), Churchill
  • Kersuady, F., Churchill and de Gaulle (London, 1981)
  • Kimball, W.F., The Juggler: FDR as Wartime Statesman (Princeton, 1991)
  • Kimball, W.F., The Most Unsordid Act: Lend Lease 1939-1941 (Baltimore, 1969)
  • Kimball, W.F., ‘Wheel Within a Wheel: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Special Relationship’, in Blake and Louis (eds.), Churchill
  • Langhorne (ed.), Diplomacy and Intelligence During World War Two (Cambridge, 1985)
  • Lawlor, S., ‘Britain and Russian entry into the war’, in Langhorne (ed.), Diplomacy
  • Louis, W.R., Imperialism at Bay 1941-1945: the United States and the decolonisation of the British Empire (Oxford, 1977)
  • Overy, R.J., The Air War 1939-1945 (London, 1980)
  • Perlmutter, A., FDR and Stalin: A Not So Grand Alliance, 1943-1945 (London, 1993)
  • Pogue, F.C., George C. Marshall – Organiser of Victory 1943-1945 (New York, 1973)
  • Reynolds, D., The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance 1937-1941: a study in competitive co-operation (London, 1981)
  • Reynolds, D., ‘Churchill the Appeaser?’ in Dockrill (ed.) Diplomacy
  • Reynolds, D., Kimball, W.F., and Chubarian, A. (eds.), Allies at War: The Soviet, American and British Experience 1939-1945 (New York, 1994)
  • Reynolds, D., ‘Roosevelt, Churchill and the Wartime Anglo-American Alliance, 1939-1945: Towards a New Synthesis’ in Louis, W.R. and Bull, H. (eds.), The ‘Special Relationship’ – Anglo-American Relations Since 1945 (Oxford, 1986)
  • Sainsbury, D., The Turning Point – Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill and Chiang-Kai-Shek, 1943: the Moscow, Cairo and Teheran Conferences (Oxford, 1985)
  • Sherwin, M.J., A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance (New York, 1975)
  • Smith, K., Conflict Over Convoys: Anglo-US Logistics Diplomacy in the Second World War (Cambridge, 1996)
  • Steele, R.W., The First Offensive, 1942: Roosevelt, Marshall and the Making of American Strategy (Bloomington, Indiana, 1973)
  • Steele, R.W., ‘American Popular Opinion and the War Against Germany – the issue of a negotiated peace’, Journal of American History, volume 65
  • Stoler, M.A., The Politics of the Second Front: American military planning and diplomacy in coalition warfare 1941-1943 (London, 1977)
  • Stoler, M.A., ‘The Pacific First Alternative in World War II Strategy’ in International History Review, volume II (1980)
  • Stoler, M.A., ‘World War II Diplomacy in Historical Writing: Prelude to Cold War’ in Haines, G.K., and Walker, J.S. (eds.), American Foreign Relations, a historiographical review (Westport, Conn., 1981)
  • Thorne, C., Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain and the War Against Japan, 1941-1945 (London, 1961)
  • Warner, ‘From Ally to Enemy’ in Dockrill (ed.), Diplomacy
  • Weinberg, G.L., A World at Arms: a Global History of World War Two (Cambridge, 1994)