D3: Working Bibliography (SecLit)
(red = not yet examined; ** = titles unobtainable in Vancouver; ONI titles not shown)
Anderson, Jack and Dale Van Atta. 'WWII Spies' Grab Bag of Dirty Tricks'. Washington Post, 9 March 1987.
Atkin, Malcolm. Section D for Destruction: Forerunner of SOE. Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2017.
** Bailey, Roderick. Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War. London: Ebury Press, 2009.
———. 'Psychiatrists and Secret Agents'. The Lancet 388, no. 10062 (10 December 2016): 2864-2865.
**———. Secret Agent Handbook: The Top Secret Manual of Wartime Weapons, Gadgets, Disguises and Devices. London: MAX, 2010.
———. 'Special Operations: A Hidden Chapter in the Histories of Facial Surgery and Human Enhancement'. Medical Humanities 46, no. 2 (2020): 115-23.
———. 'The Secret Scalpel: Plastic Surgery for Wartime Disguise'. The Lancet 384 (October 2014): 1421-1422.
** Barneschi, Gianluca. An Englishman Abroad: SOE Agent Dick Mallaby's Italian Missions, 1943-45. Oxford: Osprey, 2019.
** Beardon, James. The Spellmount Guide to London in the Second World War. Stroud: History Press, 2014.
Beevor, J.G. SOE: Recollections and Reflections. London: Bodley Head, 1981.
Bell, Leslie. Sabotage! The Story of Lt.-Col. J. Elder Wills. London: Four Square, 1959.
** Berkeley, Roy. A Spy's London. London: Pen & Sword, 2014.
Bines, Jeffrey. 'The Polish Country Section of the Special Operations Executive 1940-1946: A British Perspective'. PhD diss., Stirling, 2008.
Binney, Marcus. Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.
Bloom, Murray Teigh. 'Uncle Sam: Bashful Counterfeiter'. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 2, no. 3 (1988): 345-58.
Bond, Barbara, A. 'MI9's Escape and Evasion Mapping Programme, 1939-1945'. PhD diss., Plymouth, 2014.
Boyce, Frederic. SOE's Ultimate Deception: Operation PERIWIG. Stroud: Sutton, 2005.
Boyce, Frederic and Douglas Everett. SOE: The Scientific Secrets. Stroud: Sutton, 2003.
Breaks, Katherine. 'Ladies of the OSS: The Apron Strings of Intelligence in World War II'. American Intelligence Journal 13, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 91–96.
British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940–1945. London: St Ermin's Press, 1998.
Buckmaster, Maurice. They Fought Alone: The True Story of SOE's Agents in Wartime France. London: Biteback, 2014.
** Burke, David. The Spy Who Came in from the Co-Op: The Secret Life of Melita Norwood. London: Bloomsbury, 2006.
Byrne, Alice. 'The British Council and Cultural Propaganda in the United States, 1938–1945'. Journal of Transatlantic Studies 11, no. 3 (2013): 249–263.
Carlomagno, Cameron. 'Women in a Man's War: The Employment of Female Agents in the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946'. MA thesis, Chapman, 2019.
Chambers, John Whiteclay. 'Office of Strategic Services Training during World War II'. Studies in Intelligence 54, no. 2 (June 2010): 1–26.
———. OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II. Washington, DC: US National Park Service, 2008.
Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
Cobbett, Neil. 'SOE and the Art of Blending In'. The National Archives Blog. (21 June 2019).
Cole, Jonathan. 'Theatre of War: The Drama of the Special Operations Executive'. The National Archives Blog. (6 August 2014).
Cookridge, E.H. [Edward Spiro]. Inside SOE: The Story of Special Operations in Western Europe, 1940-45. London: Barker, 1966.
———. They Came from the Sky. New York: Crowell, 1967.
Cornioley, Pearl. Codename Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013.
Cornish, Paul. 'Weapons and Equipment of the Special Operations Executive'. In Special Operations Executive: A New Instrument of War, edited by Mark Seaman. London: Routledge, 2006.
Cruickshank, Charles. SOE in Scandinavia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Cuskie, Peter. 'The Shaping of the Anglo-American SS by War'. The Campaigner: The Theoretical Journal of Revolutionary Ideas 7, no. 7 (May 1974): 6–47, 94.
Darling, Arthur B. 'Origins of Central Intelligence'. Studies in Intelligence 8, no. 3 (Summer 1964): 55-94.
Davenport-Hines, Richard. 'Meyrick [née Nason], Kate Evelyn (1875–1933)'. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/66827.
Dewhirst, Ian. 'Happy Days at Bagcraft'. Keighley News, 29 March 2012.
Dovey, H.O. 'The Eighth Assignment, 1941–1942'. Intelligence and National Security 11, no. 4 (October 1996): 672–695.
———. 'The Eighth Assignment, 1943–1945'. Intelligence and National Security 12, no. 2 (April 1997): 69–90.
Earl, John. The Price of Patriotism: SOE and M16 in the Italian-Slovene Borderlands during World War II. Lewes: Book Guild, 2005.
Ede, Laurie N.. British Film Design: A History. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010.
Escott, Beryl E. The Heroines of SOE, F Section: Britain's Secret Women in France. Stroud: The History Press, 2011.
Fischer, Benjamin B. 'Dirty Tricks and Deadly Devices: OSS, SOE, NDRC and the Development of Special Weapons and Equipment'. Journal of Intelligence History 2, no. 1 (Summer 2002): 10–28.
———. The Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Technical Services, 1951-2001: Celebrating Fifty Years of Technical Support to US Foreign Intelligence Operations. CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2001.
Flynn, Kathleen E. '"We Shall Fight in France": The Special Operations Executive in France'. MA thesis, Ohio, 2011.
Foot, M.R.D. Secret Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
———. SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946. London: HMSO, 1966.
———. SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive, 1940-46. London: BBC, 1984.
———. 'Was SOE Any Good?'. Journal of Contemporary History 16, no. 1 (January 1981): 167-181.
Forsyth, Isla. 'From Dazzle to the Desert: A Cultural-historical Geography of Camouflage'. PhD diss., Glasgow, 2012.
———. Second World War British Military Camouflage: Designing Deception. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
———. [D3-ARK-200A] 'Subversive Patterning: The Surficial Qualities of Camouflage'. Environment and Planning 45 (2013): 1037-1052.
———. [D3-ARK-200B] 'Designs on the Desert: Camouflage, Deception, and the Militarization of Space'. Cultural Geographies 21, no. 2 (2014): 247-265.
———. [D3-ARK-200C] 'The Practice and Poetics of Fieldwork: Hugh Cott and the Study of Camouflage'. Journal of Historical Geography 43 (2014): 128-137.
———. [D3-ARK-200D] 'Desert Journeys: From Exploration to Covert Operations'. The Geographical Journal 182, no. 3 (September 2016): 226-235.
———. [D3-ARK-200E] 'More-than-human Warfare'. Social and Cultural Geography 17, no. 6 (2016): 798-802.
———. [D3-ARK-200F] 'A Bear's Biography: Hybrid Warfare and the More-than-human Battlespace'. Society and Space 35, no. 3 (2017): 495-512.
———. [D3-ARK-200G] 'A Genealogy of Military Geographies: Complicities, Entanglements, and Legacies'. Geography Compass 13 (2019): 167-181.
**Fraser-Smith, Charles. Men of Faith in the Second World War. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1992.
**Fraser-Smith, Charles and David Porter. Four Thousand Year War. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1992.
**Fraser-Smith, Charles and Kevin Logan. Secret Warriors: Hidden Heroes of MI6, OSS, MI9, SOE, and SAS. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1990.
**Fraser-Smith, Charles, Gerald McKnight, and Sandy Lesberg. The Secret War of Charles Fraser-Smith: The 'Q' Gadget Wizard of World War Two. Louth: M.S. Fraser-Smith, 2002.
Funk, Arthur L. Hidden Ally: The French Resistance, Special Operations, and the Landings in Southern France, 1944. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
Garlinski, Józef. Poland: SOE and the Allies. London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1969.
Gerolymatos, André. Guerilla Warfare and Espionage in Greece, 1940-1944. New York: Pella, 1992.
Goodchild, James. 'A Most Pervasive Memoir: R.V. Jones and His Most Secret War'. Intelligence and National Security 34, no. 4 (2019): 526–543.
Gregory, Derwin. 'Built to Resist: An Assessment of the Special Operations Executive's Infrastructure in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, 1940-1946'. PhD diss., East Anglia, 2015.
** Guiet, Daniel and Timothy Smith. Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-occupied France. New York: Penguin, 2019.
** Guiet, Jean Claude. Dead on Time: The Memoir of an SOE and OSS Agent in Occupied France. Stroud: The History Press, 2016.
Hedley, Gill. Arthur Jeffress: A Life in Art. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Helm, Sarah. Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE. London: Little, Brown, 2005.
** Herrington, Ian. Special Operations in Norway: SOE and Resistance in World War II. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. New York: Skyhorse, 2007.
Horn, Bernd. Most Ungentlemanly Way of War: The SOE and the Canadian Connection. Toronto: Dundum, 2016.
Howarth, Patrick. Undercover: The Men and Women of the Special Operations Executive. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.
Howell, Geraldine. Wartime Fashion: From Haute Couture to Homemade, 1939-1945. London: Berg, 2012. [Examined in Vancouver but not yet copied].
Hutton, Christopher Clayton. Official Secret: The Remarkable Story of Escape Aids, Their Invention, Production, and the Sequel. London: New English Library, 1962.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. Room 3603: The Story of the British Intelligence Center in New York during World War II. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963.
Jason, Sonia N. Maria Gulovich, OSS Heroine of World War II: The Schoolteacher Who Saved American Lives in Slovakia. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.
Kelso, Nicholas. Errors of Judgement: SOE's Disaster in the Netherlands, 1941-44. London: Hale, 1988.
Kesaris, Paul, ed. OSS London: Special Operations Branch and Secret Intelligence Branch War Diaries. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985.
King, Stella. 'Jacqueline': Pioneer Heroine of the Resistance. London: Arms and Armour, 1989.
Kremer, Roberta S., ed. Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria. Oxford: Berg, 2007. [Examined in Vancouver but not yet copied].
Lahiri, Shompa. 'Clandestine Mobilities and Shifting Embodiments: Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan and the Special Operations Executive, 1940-44'. Gender & History 19, no. 2 (August 2007): 305-323.
Law, Michael. The Experience of Suburban Modernity: How Private Transport Changed Interwar London. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.
** Lett, Brian. SOE's Mastermind: An Authorized Biography of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins KCMG, DSO, MC. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016.
Lincove, David A. 'The British Library of Information in New York': A Tool of British Foreign Policy, 1919–1942'. Libraries and the Cultural Record 46, no. 2 (2011): 156–184.
**Linderman, A.R.B. Rediscovering Irregular Warfare: Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain's Special Operations Executive. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
Lotzof, Kerry and Josh Davis. 'The Museum at Wartime'. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-museum-during-wartime.html.
Lovell, Stanley P. Of Spies & Strategems. New York: Permabook, 1964.
Mackenzie, W.J.M. Secret History of SOE: The Special Operations Executive, 1940-45. London: St Ermin's Press, 2000.
Maclean, Donald. 'A First Time Look into the OSS's Super Secret Spy Laboratory Division 19'. Soldier of Fortune (Summer 1975): 1-7.
MacPherson, Nelson. American Intelligence in War-time London: The Story of the OSS.. London: Routledge, 2003.
Malkin, Lawrence. Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19. New York: Little, Brown, 2008.
** Maloubier, Robert and Tania Szabo. SOE Hero: Bob Maloubier and the French Resistance. Stroud: The History Press, 2019.
Maschwitz, Eric. No Chip on My Shoulder. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1957.
Masson, Madeleine. Christine: A Search for Christine Granville. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975.
Mawer, Simon. 'Secret Agents: The Women of SOE'. The Paris Review. (21 May 2012).
** McDonald, Gabrielle. Her Finest Hour: The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent. Stroud: Amberley, 2018.
McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
———. The Role of Women in Intelligence. McLean, VA: AFIO, 1989.
Miller, Russell. Behind the Lines: The Oral History of Special Operations in World War II. London: Secker & Warburg, 2002.
** Mulley, Clare. The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville. New York: St Martin's Press, 2013.
Mure, David. Master of Deception: Tangled Webs in London and the Middle East. London: William Kimber, 1980.
———. Practise to Deceive. London: William Kimber, 1977.
Murphy, Christopher J. 'Command Rather Than Consultation: Organizing Special Operations — the Case of SOE'. Public Policy and Administration 25, no. 1 (January 2010): 67–84.
———. Security and Special Operations: SOE and MI5 during the Second World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
O'Connor, Bernard. Agent Rose: The True Spy Story of Eileen Nearne, Britain's Forgotten Wartime Heroine. Stroud: Amberley, 2012.
———. Churchill's Angels: How Britain's Women Secret Agents Changed the Course of the Second World War. Stroud: Amberley, 2014.
Pattinson, Juliette. Behind Enemy Lines: Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.
———. ''Playing the Daft Lassie with Them': Gender, Captivity and the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War'. European Review of History/Revue europeenne d'histoire 13, no. 2 (June 2006): 271-292.
———. 'The Best Disguise: Performing Femininities for Clandestine Purposes during the Second World War'. In Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Textual Representations edited by Angela K. Smith. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Perrin, Nigel. 'Undercover Operators: Fakery, Passing and the Special Operations Executive'. Journal of Intelligence History 16, no. 1 (January 2017): 23-46.
Philby, Kim. My Silent War. New York: Ballantine, 1968.
Photiadou, Artemis Joanna. '"Extremely Valuable Work"': British Intelligence and the Interrogation of Refugees in London, 1941–45'. Intelligence and National Security 36, no. 1 (2021): 17–33.
**Porter, David. The Man Who Was 'Q': The True Story of Charles Fraser-Smith, the 'Q' Wizard of World War II. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1990.
Purnell, Sonia. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Viking, 2019. [Read by CHH and notes archived (ARK_105)]
Rankin, Nicholas. A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Ransted, Chris. Bomb Disposal in World War Two. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018.
Rigden, Denis. How to Be a Spy: The World War II SOE Training Manual. Toronto: Dundum, 2004.
Riols, Noreen. The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies. London: Pan, 2014.
Ruby, Marcel. F Section, SOE: The Buckmaster Networks. London: Leo Cooper, 1985.
** Seaman, Mark. Secret Agent's Handbook of Special Devices. Kew: PRO, 2000.
Sears, Jocelyn. 'Clothing Britain’s Spies during World War II'. JSTOR Daily (8 August 2018). https://daily.jstor.org/clothing-britains-spies-wwii/.
Sebba, Anne. 'Fashion as Resistance in WWII France'. Wonders & Marvels (January 2017). http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2017/01/fashion-resistance-wwii-france.html.
** Sebba, Anne and Charlotte Strevens. Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s. Oxford: Isis, 2017.
Shahan, Jessica Renee. 'Spying Gender: Women in British Intelligence 1969-1994'. PhD diss., Aberystwyth, 2019.
**Sharf, Frederic A. Brian Stonehouse, MBE, 1918-1998: Artist, Soldier, War Hero, Fashion Illustrator. Middlebury, CT: Velocity, 2014. [Located at V&A but not yet examined. CHH: Order via ILL?]
Shaver III, John W. 'Office of Strategic Services: Operational Groups in France During World War II, July-October 1944'. MMAS thesis, Tennessee Technological, 1993.
Shore, Heather. '"Constable Dances with Instructress": The Police and the Queen of Nightclubs in Inter-war London'. Social History 38, no. 2 (2013): 183–202.
Simons, Jake Wallis. 'From Dashing Spy to Vogue Illustrator: The Double Life of Mr. Stonehouse'. CNN (3 January 2015). https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/18/world/stonehouse-double-life-spy/index.html.
Stafford, David. Britain and European Resistance, 1940–1945: A Survey of the Special Operations Executive, with Documents. London: Macmillan, 1980.
———. Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive. London: BBC, 2002.
Stevenson, William. A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible True Story of the Master Spy Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Skyhorse, 2014.
Sugarman, Martin. 'Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE'. Jewish Historical Studies 35 (1996-1998): 309-328.
** Summers, Julie. Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue Editor Extraordinaire from the Blitz to the Swinging Sixties. London: Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Sweet-Escott, Bickham. Baker Street Irregular. London: Methuen, 1965.
Thomas, Evan. 'Spymaster General: The Adventures of Wild Bill Donovan and the “Oh So Social” O.S.S.' Vanity Fair, 3 March 2011.
Thompson, G.T.R. 'Notes on SOE 1941 to 1943, with Special Reference to the Belgian Country Section'. WarGen (1963). http://www.wargen.org/wiki/index.php/Major_GTR_Thompson.
Treleaven, Emma. 'Dressed to Disappear: Fashion as Camouflage during the Second World War'. The Journal of Dress History 2, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 153-164.
** Tremain, David. Double Agent Victoire: Mathilde Carré and the Interallié Network. Stroud: The History Press, 2018.
United Kingdom. Special Operations Executive. How to Become a Spy: The World War II SOE Training Manual. New York: Skyhorse, 2015.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Center for the Study of Intelligence. OSS Official Exhibition Catalogue. Washington: USGPO, 2015.
United States. War Department. War Report: Office of Strategic Services (OSS). 2 vols. Washington: USGPO, 1949.
Veillon, Dominique. Fashion under the Occupation. Oxford: Berg, 2002.
West, Nigel. Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organisation. Barnsley: Frontline, 2019.
Whitworth, Carianne. 'The Secret London Exhibition for Spies' Eyes Only'. Atlas Obscura (28 August 2018). https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exhibit-for-spies-at-natural-history-museum-london.
Williams, Heather. Parachutes, Patriots and Partisans: The Special Operations Executive and Yugoslavia, 1941-1945. London: Hurst, 2003.
Wood, Linda. British Films 1927–1939. London: BFI National Library, 2009.
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