Thesis - Bibliography

This is a preliminary bibliography for my MPhil thesis on the Air Power and the Dieppe Raid excluding primary sources. I think it is fairly comprehensive but if anyone knows of any useful sources which might fill the gaps please let me know.

Official Histories:

Buckley, Christopher Norway – The Commandos – Dieppe (London: HMSO, 1951)
Butler, J R M et al. Grand Strategy, 6 Vol. (London: HMSO, 1956 – 1976)
Collier, B The Defence of the United Kingdom (London: HMSO, 1957)
Ellis, L F The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940 (London: HMSO, 1953)
Gibbs, N H Grand Strategy, Volume 1: Rearmament Policy (London: HMSO, 1976)
Hinsley, F H et al. British Intelligence in the Second World War, 5 Volumes (London: HMSO, 1979 – 1990)
James, T C G Air Defence of Great Britain, Volume 1: The Growth of Fighter Command, 1936 – 1940 (London: Frank Cass, 2001)
James, T C G Air Defence of Great Britain, Volume 2: The Battle of Britain (London: Frank Cass, 2001)
Richards, Denis Royal Air Force 1939-1945 Volume I: The Fight at Odds (London: HMSO, 1953)
Richards, D and Saunders, H Royal Air Force 1939-1945 Volume II: The Fight Avails (London: HMSO, 1953)
Roskill, S War at Sea 1939 – 1945, Volume 2: The Period of Balance (London: HMSO, 1956)

Books:

Atkin, Ronald Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980)
Beker, Cajus The Luftwaffe War Diaries: The German Air Force in World War II (New York, De Capo Press, 1994)
Campbell, John P Dieppe Revisited: A Documentary Investigation (London: Frank Cass, 1993)
Dickinson, Paul and Copp, Terry Dieppe (Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2001)
Franks, Norman The Greatest Air Battle: Dieppe, 19th August 1942 (London: Grub Street, 1992)
Ford, Ken Dieppe 1942: Combined Operations Catastrophe (Oxford: Osprey, 2003)
Fowler, Will The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal fort D – Day (London: Collins, 2002)
Greenhous, Brereton Dieppe, Dieppe (London: Howell Press, 2003)
Hallion, Richard P Strike from the Sky: The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1911-1945 (Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1989)
Keegan, John Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris (London: Pimlico, 1982)
Loring – Villa, Brian Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid 1942 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Murray, Williamson War in the Air 1914 – 45 (London: Cassell, 1999)
Neillands, Robin The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Mission (London: Aurum, 2006)
Page, Christopher The Royal Navy and the Raids on Dieppe and St Nazaire (London: Frank Cass, 2002)
Powers, Barry Strategy Without a Slide Rule: British Air Strategy 1914-1939 (London: Croom Helm, 1976)
Ray, John The Battle of Britain: Dowding and the First Victory, 1940 (London: Cassell, 2000)
Saunders, Tim Dieppe: Operation Jubilee (Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2005)
Slessor, John C Air Power and Armies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936)
Smith, Malcolm British Air Strategy Between the Wars (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984)
Terraine, John The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945 (London: Wordsworth, 1997)

Chapters in Books:

Bond, Brian and Murray, Williamson ‘The British Armed Forces, 1918-39’ in Millett, Allan R and Murray, Williamson (Eds.) Military Effectiveness: Volume II, The Interwar Period (London: Allen and Unwin 198
Muller, Richard R ‘Close Air Support’ in Murray, Williamson and Millett, Allan Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Journals:

Fearon, Peter ‘The British Airframe Industry and the State, 1918 – 1935’ Economic History Review, Vol. 27 (1974)
Greenhous, Brereton ‘Operation Flodden: The Sea Fight of Berneval and the Suppression of the Goebbels Battery, 19 August 1942’ Canadian Military Journal (Autumn 2003)
Haslam, E B ‘How Lord Dowding came to leave Fighter Command’ Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1981)
Jacobs, William ‘Air Support for the British Army, 1939-1943’ Military Affairs, Vol. 46, No. 4 (December 1982)
Leigh – Mallory, Wing Commander Trafford, DSO ‘Air Co-Operation with Mechanized Forces’ Journal of the Royal United Services Institution, Vol. 75 (1930: Feb/Nov)
Loring – Villa, Brian ‘Mountbatten, the British Chiefs of Staff, and Approval of the Dieppe Raid’ Journal of Military History, Vol. 54, No. 2 (April 1990)
Earl Mountbatten of Burma, ‘Operation Jubilee: The Place of the Dieppe Raid in History’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institute, Vol. 119, No. 1 (March 1974)
Pile, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick, DSO, MC, psc, Royal Tank Corps ‘The Army’s Air Needs’ Journal of the Royal United Services Institution, Vol. 71 (1926: Feb/Nov)
Portal, Air Commodore Charles, DSO, MC ‘Air Force Co-operation in Policing the Empire’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Vol. 82 (1937: Feb/Nov)
Roskill, Captain Stephen, DSC, MA, RN, ‘The Dieppe Raid and the Question of German Foreknowledge’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institute, Vol. 109 (1964: Feb.)

Theses and Dissertations:

Hall, David I ‘The Birth of the Tactical Air Force: British Theory and Practice of Air Support in the West, 1939-1943’, DPhil Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996
Henry, Hugh ‘The Planning, Intelligence and Aftermath of the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942’ DPhil Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996

Battle of Britian Memorial Flight

Saturday the 5th of May saw a formation flight of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at Duxford. This must have been an amazing flight with the new painted Lancaster, which now appears in the markings of EE139 of 100 Squadron, Phantom of the Ruhr. The flight also consists of 5 Spitfires and 2 Hurricanes of various markings. The sound of 8 Merlin and 3 Griffon engines must have been a sight to behold.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the flight formation so it is great that thy have been able to get all of the aircraft flying together. I would suggest reading the forward to the flights webpage by Squadron Leader B.G ‘Stapme’ Stapleton DFC, DFC (Dutch). It makes for some interesting reading especially his comments on revisionism to the Battle of Britain. Much of it is a good warning about how far we as historian can remove reality from an event. As he comments, ‘To us the German advance had to be stopped, and we, in our capacity as RAF fighter pilots, ably supported from many quarters, achieved just that.’

Here are some pics of the day that I have managed to find.

You can find details about flight here.