Thesis Bibliography

Here is a list of book and sources that are being used for my thesis. It is a working progress and if anyone knows of any other useful sources please let me know.

Bibliography

 

Primary Sources

 

The National Archives, Kew, London

 

Admiralty Papers

 

ADM 1 - Correspondence and Papers

            ADM 1/6/2086

            ADM 1/9552 – Report on Combined Operations Exercises, 5th - 6th July 1938

ADM 1/11986 – Operation “Jubilee” Combined Operations attack on Dieppe, various reports

ADM 1/12373 – Operation “Jubilee” (raid on Dieppe): awards to naval personnel

            ADM 1/20003 – Publication of naval report on Dieppe raid

ADM 116 – Cases

            ADM 116/2086 – Combined Operations: Revision of Manual

            ADM 116/2223 - Combined Operations - Report on exercise

ADM 179 – Portsmouth Station: Correspondence

ADM 179/220 – Operation “Rutter”: outline plan, with orders and charts relating to the appointment of force commanders: reports on planning

ADM 179/223 – Exercise “Yukon II”; instructions for raid on Bridport, embracing destruction of local defences and power stations

            ADM 179/1079

ADM 199 – War History Cases and Papers, Second World War

ADM 199/2465 – Director of Naval Intelligence: France: operational reports including account of Dieppe Raid 1942: includes CX material

ADM 203 – Royal Naval Colleges, Dartmouth and Greenwich: Correspondence and Papers

ADM 203/89 – Combined Naval and Military landing operation, Moray Firth (11/12 June 1928 )

ADM 234 – Reference Books (BR Series)

ADM 234/354 – No.33: raid on Dieppe: naval movements 19 August 1942 (1946)

            ADM 234/355 – No.33: raid on Dieppe: naval operations 19 August 1942 (1959)

ADM 239 - Confidential Reference Books (CB Series)

            ADM 239/350 – Raid on Dieppe: lessons learnt

 

Air Ministry Papers

 

AIR 1 – Air Historical Branch Papers (Series 1)

AIR 1/2054/204/407/4 - Paper on Combined Operations by Combined Operations Committee

AIR 2 – Air Ministry Registered Files

            AIR 2/1061 – Co-ordinating Committee: Staff Duties in Combined Operations

AIR 2/1679 – Combined Operations

            AIR 2/1830 – Revision of Combined Operations Manual 1936

            AIR 2/1886 – Singapore Combined Exercise, Jan. 1937

            AIR 2/1924 – Southern Command Combined Operations exercise, Aug 1936

            AIR 2/4833 – Combined Operations: Co-Ordination of Meteorological Advice

AIR 2/4845 – Combined Operations Organisation: Meteorological Services

            AIR 2/7697 – Training of Squadrons for Combined Operations

            AIR 2/7999 – Balloons for Combined Operations

AIR 5 - Air Historical Branch Papers (Series II)

            AIR 5/204 - Collaboration with Admiralty in “Manual of Combined Operations”

AIR 8 – Registered Files of the Department of the Chief of the Air Staff

            AIR 8/734 – Fighter Support for Combined Operations

            AIR 8/883 - Operation “Jubilee”

            AIR 8/895 - Operation “Rutter”

AIR 9 – Registered File of the Directorate of Operations and Intelligence and Directorate of Plans

            AIR 9/1 – Combined Operations

AIR 9/413 – Combined Operations: Policy

AIR 10 – Air Publications and Reports

            AIR 10/1437 – Manual of Combined Operations (1938 )

AIR 10/3863 – Combined Operations Pamphlet No. 21: Conduct of A Long Range Assault in the Far East (1945)

AIR 10/4166 - Combined Operations Pamphlet: No. 7(a) Support of the Assault (1943)

AIR 10/5523 - Combined Operations Handbook: Communications for Control of air defence, air support and naval bombardment (1950)

AIR 10/5533 – Combined Operations Handbook: Manual of combined naval military and air operations (1925)

AIR 10/5547 – Second World War 1939-1945: Air Support (1955)

AIR 14 – Bomber Command Registered Files

            AIR 14/1809 – Operation “Jubilee”

AIR 16 – Fighter Command Registered Files

            AIR 16/236 – Fighter Command Intelligence Summary No 302-373

AIR 16/329 – Day Fighter aircraft requirements: Spring 1943

AIR 16/373 – Fighter offensive operations: policy

AIR 16/538 – Offensive Operations: conservation of forces and priority of targets

AIR 16/551 - Fighter support for the Army

AIR 16/552 – Operation of Fighters in support of the Army

AIR 16/666 - Operation “Jubilee”: composite combat reports

AIR 16/746 – Operation “Jubilee”: combined plan

AIR 16/747 – Operation “Jubilee”: combined plan

AIR 16/748 – Operation “Jubilee”: combined plan

AIR 16/760 – Operation “Rutter”

AIR 16/762 – Operation “Aflame”

            AIR 16/763 – Operation “Aflame”

AIR 16/764 – Operation “Jubilee”

            AIR 16/765 – Operation “Jubilee”

            AIR 16/1044 – Operational Research Section reports 1st series Nos. 353-529

            AIR 16/1809

AIR 20 – Papers accumulated by the Air Historical Branch

            AIR 20/157 – Combined Operations Exercise, Camberley

AIR 20/183 – Combined Operations Exercise, Singapore

AIR 20/829 – Combined Operations: training of air forces

            AIR 20/832 – Combined operations: communications

AIR 20/949 – Combined operations; organisation and staff studies

AIR 20/3920 – Combined Operations: Fighter Support

AIR 20/4310 – Air power contribution to combined operations

AIR 20/4529 – Operation “Coleman” proposals for combined operation air battle on French coast

AIR 20/4835 – Combined operations: fighter directions

AIR 20/5011 – Combined Operations: policy and organisation

            AIR 20/5012 – Combined Operations: policy and organisation

            AIR 20/5105 – Amphibious operations from the U.K.

            AIR 20/5186 – Operation “Jubilee”: raid on Dieppe

AIR 20/5229 – Conference to study combined operations involved in Operation “Overlord”

AIR 20/9503 – History of Combined Operations Organisation 1940-1945 by Amphibious Warfare HQ

AIR 23 – Reports and Correspondence of Royal Air Force Overseas Commands

AIR 23/7288 – Control and disposition of Air Forces during combined operations

AIR 37 – Registered Files and Reports of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, later Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (Air), and 2nd Tactical Air Force

            AIR 37/199 – Operation “Jubilee”: reports

            AIR 37/351 – Combined Operation “Jubilee”

            AIR 37/352 – Combined Operation “Jubilee” reports from squadrons

AIR 37/353 – Combined Operation “Jubilee”

AIR 39 – Army Co-Operation Command Registered Files

            AIR 39/19 – Operation “Jubilee”

            AIR 39/44 – Operation “Rutter”

AIR 40 – Reports and Papers of the Directorate of Intelligence and related bodies

            AIR 40/2239 – ‘Y’ intelligence for combined operations

AIR 41 – Air Historical Branch Narratives and Monographs

AIR 41/18 – The Air Defence of Great Britain, Vol IV: The Beginning of the Fighter Offensive, 1940-1941

AIR 41/49 – The Air Defence of Great Britain: Vol V The Struggle for Air Supremacy Jan 1942 - May 1945

AIR 41/66 – The Liberation of NW Europe: VOL I The Planning and Preparation of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force for the Landings in Normandy 1942-1944

 

Ministry of Defence Papers

 

DEFE 2 – Records of the Combined Operations Headquarters

DEFE 2/781 - Lectures delivered by various Naval Officers, questionnaire on a Combined Operations Exercise, etc

DEFE 2/782A – Early history and summary of events leading to the formation of inter-service Training and Development Centre and Chief of Combined Operations

 

War Office Papers

 

WO 219 – Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force: Military Headquarters Papers, Second World War

            WO219/1867 - German intelligence report on the Dieppe raid

 

Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, London

 

AIR 69 – Reports and Papers of the RAF Staff College, Andover

 

Secondary Sources

 

Official Histories

 

Anon Combined Operations, 1940 – 1942 (London: HMSO, 1943)

Anon AP 3000: British Air Power Doctrine, 3rd Edition (London: HMSO, 1999)

Richards, Denis and Saunders, Hillary St George Royal Air Force 1939-1945 Volume 2: The Fight Avails (London: HMSO, 1953)

Roskill D.S.C Captain Stephen History of the Second World War: The War at Sea Volume II (London: HMSO, 1956)

 

Books

 

Atkin, Ronald Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1980)

Austin, Alexander We Landed at Dawn (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1942)

Buckley, John (Ed.) The Normandy Campaign: Sixty Years On (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006)

Campbell, John Dieppe Revisted: A Documentary Investigation (London: Frank Cass, 1993)

Clifford, Kenneth Amphibious Warfare Development in Britain and America from 1920 – 1940 (New York: Edgewood, 1983)

Dunn, Bill Newton Big Wing: A Biography of ACM Trafford Leigh-Mallory (London: Airlife, 1992)

Franks, Norman The Greatest Air Battle: Dieppe, 9th August 1942 (London: Grub Street, 1992)

Fowler, Will The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day (London: Collins, 2003)

Gooderson, Ian Air Power at the Battlefront: Allied Close Air Support in Europe, 1943 – 45 (London: Frank Cass, 1998 )

Millett, Allan and Murray, Williamson (Eds.) Military Effectiveness – Volume 1: The First World War (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988 )

Millett, Allan and Murray, Williamson (Eds.) Military Effectiveness – Volume 2: The Inter War Years (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988 )

Millett, Allan and Murray, Williamson (Eds.) Military Effectiveness – Volume 3: The Second World War (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988 )

Neillands, Robin The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition (London: Aurum Press, 2006)

Reynolds, Quentin Dress Rehearsal – The Story of Dieppe (London: Angus & Robertson, 1943)

Speller, Ian and Tuck, Christopher Amphibious Warfare: The Theory and Practice of Amphibious Operations in the 20th Century (Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2001)

Terraine, John The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945 (London: Wordsworth, 1997)

Villa, Brian Loring Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid, 1942 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)

 

Monographs

 

Bernasconi, Jeffrey ‘Military Effectiveness: A Reappraisal’ Advanced Military Studies Program Monograph, School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Command and General Staff College, 1997

 

Articles and Journals

 

Balzer, Timothy ‘ ‘In Case the Raid is Unsuccessful…’ Selling Dieppe to Canadians’ The Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 87, No. 3 (September 2006) pp. 409 – 430

Campbell, John ‘Operation Starkey, 1943: ‘A piece of harmless playacting’?’ Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1987) pp.92 – 113

Cook, Tim ‘Clio’s Soldiers: Charles Stacey and the Army Historical Section in the Second World War’ The Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 83, No. 1 (March 2002) pp. 29 – 57

Copp, Terry ‘Return to Dieppe: September 1944’ Canadian Military History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1992) pp. 71 – 78

Garrod, Martin, Lieutenant General Sir ‘Amphibious Warfare: Why?’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institute, Vol. 133, No. 4 (Winter 1988 ) pp. 25 – 30

Gray, Colin S ‘Amphibious Operations’ in Edmonds, Martin and Ewing, Humphry (Eds.) Maritime Forces in Peace and War: Joint and Combined Operations, Bailrigg Paper 30 (Lancaster: CDISS, 1999) pp. 73 – 76

Gray, Peter ‘Air Power and Joint Doctrine: An RAF Perspective’ Royal Air Force Air Power Review, Vol. 3, No.4 (Winter 2000) pp. 1 – 12

Gray, Peter ‘Caen – The Martyred City’ in Buckley, John (Ed.) The Normandy Campaign: Sixty Years On (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006)

Greenhous, Brereton ‘Operation Flodden: The Sea Fight off Berneval and the Supression of the Goebbels Battery, 19 August 1942’ Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Autumn 2003) pp. 47 – 57

Grindle, J A, Commodore, CBE, RN ‘The Development of Combined Operations Material and Technique’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Vol. 93 (1948 ) pp. 537 – 550

Hall, David Ian ‘The Long Gestation and Difficult Birth of the 2nd Tactical Air Force (RAF)’ Royal Air Force Air Power Review, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Autumn 2002) pp. 20 – 33

Hall, David Ian ‘Creating the 2nd Tactical Air Force RAF: Inter-Service and Anglo-Canadian Co-Operation in the Second World War’ Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 2003) pp. 39 – 45

Hart, Basil Liddell ‘The Value of Amphibious Flexibility and Force’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Vol. 105 (November 1960) pp. 483 – 492

Head, A H, Brigadier, CBE, MC, MP ‘Amphibious Operations’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Vol. 91 (1946) pp. 485 – 494  

Henry, Hugh ‘The Calgary Tanks at Dieppe’ Canadian Military History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1995) pp. 61 – 74 

Henshaw, Peter ‘The British Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Preparation of the Dieppe Raid, March- August 1942: Did Mountbatten Really Evade the Committee’s Authority?’ War in History, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1994) pp. 197 – 214

Henshaw, Peter ‘The Dieppe Raid: A Product of Misplaced Canadian Nationalism’ The Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 77, No. 2 (June 1996) pp. 250 – 266

Horan, H E, Rear Admiral, CB, DSC ‘Combined Operations, 1939 – 1945’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Vol. 98 (1953) pp. 55 – 65

Horn, Bernd ‘Strength Born from Weakness: The Establishment of the Raiding Concept and the British Commandos’ Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Autumn 2006) pp. 59 – 68

Hughes-Hallett, John, Rear Admiral, CB, DSO ‘The Mounting of Raids’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Vol. 95 (1950) pp. 580 – 588  

Hyatt, A M J ‘Official History in Canada’ Military Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer 1966) pp. 91 – 99

Jacobs, W A ‘Air Support for the British Army, 1939 – 1943’ Military Affairs, Vol. 46, No. 4 (December 1982) pp. 174 – 182

Millett, Allan, Murray, Williamson and Watmann, Kenneth ‘The Effectiveness of Military Organizations’ International Security, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 1986) pp. 37 – 71

Earl Mountbatten of Burma ‘Operation JUBILEE: The Place of the Dieppe Raid in History’ Journal of the Royal United Services Institution, Vol. 119, No. 1 (March 1974) pp. 25 – 30

Roland, Charles ‘On the Beach and in the Bag: The Fate of Dieppe Casualties Left Behind’ Canadian Military History, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Autumn 2000) pp. 6 – 25

Roskill, Stephen ‘The Dieppe Raid and the Question of German Foreknowledge’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institute, Vol. 109 (Feb: 1964) pp. 27 – 31

Villa, Brian and Henshaw, Peter ‘The Dieppe Raid Debate,’ Canadian Historical Review Vol. 79, no. 2 (1998 ) pp. 304 – 315

Villia, Brian Loring ‘Mountbatten, the British Chiefs of Staff and Approval of the Dieppe Raid’ Journal of Military History, Vol. 54, No. 2 (April 1990) pp. 201 – 226

 

Theses

 

Henry, Hugh ‘The Planning, Intelligence, Execution and Aftermath of the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942’ PhD Thesis (Cambridge University, 1996)

Massam, David ‘British Maritime Strategy and Amphibious Capability, 1900 – 40’ DPhil Thesis (Oxford University, 1996)