The Day We Went to War (58 page)

Mass Observation,
The Pub and the People: A Worktown Study,
Victor Gollancz, London, 1943.

Middlebrook, Martin and Everitt, Chris,
The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book, 1939–1945,
Viking, Middlesex, 1985.

Minney, R.J.,
The Private Papers of Hore-Belisha,
Collins, London, 1960.

Mosley, Leonard,
On Borrowed Time: How World War II Began,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1969.

Muggeridge, Malcolm (ed.),
Ciano’s Diary,
William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1947.

Niven, David,
The Moon’s a Balloon: Reminiscences,
Coronet Books, London, 1973.

Panter-Downes, Mollie,
London War Notes 1939–1945
, Longman, 1971.

Penglase, Joanna and Horner, David,
When the War Came to
Australia: Memories of the Second World War
, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1992.

Picture Post
, Volumes 4,5 & 6, Hulton Press, London, 1939–1940.

Polish Ministry of Information,
The German Invasion of Poland: Polish Black Book
, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, London and Melbourne, 1941.

Powell, Anthony,
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume III: Faces in My Time
, The Quality Book Club, London, 1980.

Raczynski, Edward,
In Allied London
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1962.

Raleigh, John McCutcheon,
Behind the Nazi Front
, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1941.

Ramsey, Winston G. (ed.),
The Blitz, Then and Now,
Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd, London, 1987.

Reynaud, Paul,
In the Thick of the Fight 1930–1945,
Cassell & Co. Ltd, London, 1955.

Robbins Landon, H.C. and Leitner, Sebastian,
Wilhelm Prüller: Diary of a German Soldier,
Faber & Faber, London, 1963.

Roberts, Cecil,
Sunshine and Shadow: Being the Fourth Book of an Autobiography 1930–1946,
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1972.

Rossino, Alexander B.,
Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity,
University Press of Kansas, Kansas, 2003.

Rothenstein, John,
Brave Day Hideous Night: Autobiography 1939–1965 (I),
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1966.

Russell, William,
Berlin Embassy
, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York, 1941.

Salter, Cedric,
Flight From Poland,
Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1940.

Schmidt, Paul,
Hitler’s Interpreter
, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1951.

Seth, Ronald,
The Day War Broke Out: The Story of the 3rd September 1939,
Neville Spearman Ltd, London, 1963.

Sewell, J.E.,
Mirror of Britain,
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1941.

Sheridan, Dorothy,
Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939–1945
, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1985.

Shirer, William L.,
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934–1941,
Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1941.

Shirer, William L.,
The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940,
Pan Books Ltd, London, 1972.

Shirer, William L.,
This is Berlin: A Narrative History: 1938-40,
Hutchinson, London, 1999.

Spier, Eugen,
The Protecting Power
, Skeffington & Son Ltd, London, 1951.

St John, Robert,
Foreign Correspondent
, Hutchinson, London, 1961.

Struther, Jan,
Women of Britain: Letters from England,
Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1941.

Thorne, Christopher,
The Approach of War, 1938–1939,
Macmillan, London, 1967.

Turner, E.S.,
The Phoney War on the Home Front,
Michael Joseph, London, 1961.

Von Hassell, Ulrich,
The Von Hassell Diaries: 1938–1944,
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1948.

Wacław, Jedrzejewicz ed.,
Diplomat in Paris 1936–1939: Papers and Memoirs of Juliusz Łukasiewicz, Ambassador of Poland,
Columbia University Press, London 1970.

Watt, Donald Cameron,
How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939
, Heinemann, London, 1989.

Weymouth, Anthony,
A Psychologist’s War-Time Diary,
Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1940.

Wilson, Norman Scarlyn,
A United People Goes to War
, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1939.

Winn, Godfrey,
The Infirm Glory: Volume 2, The Growing Years,
Pan Book Ltd, London, 1967.

Wyndham, Joan,
Love Lessons: A Wartime Diary
, Heinemann, London, 1986.

L
IST OF UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

For anybody researching and writing on the two world wars and other conflicts since 1914, the Imperial War Museum’s Department of Documents is a treasure trove of unpublished diaries and letters. In writing
The Day We Went to War
, I set myself the task of recording what people actually wrote and said at the time, rather than what people remember today of 1939. This task was greatly assisted by the fact that the Department had such a wealth of material from 1939.

The following collections have been the most useful in the preparation of the book. I was especially struck by the fact that so much excellent material was to be found in the diaries of ordinary people at home, the majority of whom were women, going through an extraordinary time. I am most grateful to them, and to their families, for their kind and generous permission to use and quote from them. The Museum’s Sound Archive is likewise a veritable goldmine for historians and researchers. It was fascinating to go through the collection hearing the sounds and voices of 1939. Because of the parameters I set myself, I have not included, in most cases, people’s recorded interviews in which they give their recollections of 1939, but the following were most useful:

I
NDEX

Adams, Alex
(i)
,
(ii)

Admiral Graf Spee
(pocket battleship)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

scuttled
(i)
illus.

Agate, James
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)

Air Raid Precautions (ARP)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
illus.,
(vi)
,
(vii)
see also
civil defence in Britain

Animals Committee
(i)

blackout (
see
blackout)

gas masks (
see
gas masks)

shelters
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.,
(iii)
,
(iv)
illus.,
(v)
illus.

wardens
(i)
,
(ii)

warning sirens
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.,
(iii)
,
(iv)

air war
(i)

Ajax,
HMS (cruiser)
(i)

Allen, Peter
(i)
,
(ii)

Amery, Julian
(i)

Amery, Leopold
(i)
,
(ii)

Anderson shelters
see
Air Raid Precautions (ARP)

Anderson, Sir John
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Anderson, Verily
(i)

Andreas-Friederich, Ruth
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Anglo-French declaration
(i)

Anglo-French military mission
see

Anglo-French-Soviet

negotiations

Anglo-French-Soviet negotiations
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935)
(i)
,
(ii)

Anglo-Polish alliance (1939)
(i)
,
(ii)

Anglo-Soviet relations
(i)

appeasement/appeasers
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)

Ark Royal,
HMS (aircraft carrier)
(i)
,
(ii)

Askey, Arthur ‘Big-Hearted’
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Athenia,
SS (liner)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)

torpedoed by U-boat
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
illus.

Australia
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.,
(iii)

Barrington, Jonah
(i)

Bartlett, Dorothy
(i)
,
(ii)

Bastille Day (France)
(i)

Baxter, Beverley
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Bayles, William D
(i)
,
(ii)

Bayne-Powell, Nancy
(i)
,
(ii)

Bayne-Powell, Robert
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

BBC:

Daily Service
(i)
,
(ii)

Home Service
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)