Myths & Legends of the Second World War

by James Hayward

  Djilas, Milovan, Conversations With Stalin, Hart Davis, 1962

  Driberg, Tom, Colonnade 1937–47, Pilot Press, 1949

  Ellis, L.F., The War in France and Flanders 1939–14 (Official History), HMSO, 1953

  Farago, Ladislas, Aftermath, Hodder & Stoughton, 1974

  Felix, Christopher, The Spy and his Masters, Secker & Warburg, 1963

  FitzGibbon, Constantine, The Blitz, Allan Wingate, 1957

  Fleming, Peter, Invasion 1940, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957

  Foot, M.R.D., Resistance, Eyre Methuen, 1976

  Foynes, Julian, The Battle of the East Coast 1939–45, private printing, 1994

  Frank, Wolfgang, Enemy Submarine, William Kimber, 1954

  Fraser, David, And We Shall Shock Them, Hodder & Stoughton, 1983

  Fussell, Paul, Wartime, Oxford University Press, 1989

  Gardiner, Geoff, Airfield Focus 30 – Watton, GMS Enterprises, n.d.

  Gardner, Gerald, Witchcraft Today, Rider, 1954

  Garlinski, Josef, Poland in the Second World War, Macmillan, 1985

  Gelb, Norman, Dunkirk, Michael Joseph, 1990

  Gibson, Guy, Enemy Coast Ahead, Michael Joseph, 1946

  Gillman, Peter, Collar the Lot!, Quartet, 1980

  Glover, Michael, The Fight for the Channel Ports, Leo Cooper, 1985

  ——, Invasion Scare 1940, Leo Cooper, 1990

  Goebbels, Josef, The Goebbels Diaries, Hamish Hamilton, 1982

  Golley, John, John ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham, Airlife, 1999

  Good, Timothy, Above Top Secret, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987

  Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas, The Occult Roots of Nazism, Aquarian Press, 1985

  Goris, Jan-Albert, Belgium in Bondage, LB Fischer, 1943

  Gray, Bernard, War Reporter, Robert Hale, 1942

  Guderian, Heinz, Panzer Leader, Michael Joseph, 1952

  Gun Buster, Return Via Dunkirk, Hodder & Stoughton, 1940

  Hadley, Peter, Third Class to Dunkirk, Hollis & Carter, 1944

  Harbinson, W.A., Projekt UFO, Boxtree, 1995

  Harman, Nicholas, Dunkirk – the Necessary Myth, Hodder & Stoughton, 1980

  Harris, John, Dunkirk – The Storms of War, David & Charles, 1980

  Harris, Robert, Selling Hitler, Faber & Faber, 1986

  Harrisson, Tom, Living Through the Blitz, Collins, 1976

  —— and Madge, Charles, War Begins at Home, Chatto & Windus, 1940

  Hart, Basil Liddell (ed.), The Rommel Papers, Collins, 1953

  Hastings, Max, Bomber Command, Michael Joseph, 1979

  Hatherill, George, The Detective’s Story, André Deutsch, 1971

  Hayward, James, The Bodies on the Beach, CD41 Publishing, 2001

  ——, Myths & Legends of the First World War, Sutton, 2002

  Heide, Dirk van der, My Sister and I, Faber, 1941

  Hickman, Tom, What Did You Do in the War, Auntie?, BBC, 1995

  Hinchley, Vernon, Spy Mysteries Unveiled, George Harrap, 1963

  Hinsley, F.H., British Intelligence in the Second World War (abridged edn.), HMSO, 1993

  Hoare, Samuel, Ambassador on Special Mission, Collins, 1946

  Hodgson, Vere, Few Eggs and No Oranges, Dennis Dobson, 1976

  Hodson, James, Through the Dark Night, Gollancz, 1941

  Hohne, Heinz, Canaris, Secker & Warburg, 1979

  Hooper, David, Official Secrets, Secker & Warburg, 1987

  Horne, Alistair, To Lose a Battle – France 1940, Macmillan, 1969

  Howard, Michael, The Occult Conspiracy, Rider, 1989

  ——, Strategic Deception in WW2, HMSO, 1990

  —— and Sparrow, John, The Coldstream Guards 1920–46, Oxford University Press, 1951

  Howard, Ronald, In Search of My Father, William Kimber, 1981

  Howe, Ellic, Urania’s Children, William Kimber, 1967

  ——, The Black Game, Michael Joseph, 1982

  Hylton, Stuart, Their Darkest Hour, Sutton, 2001

  Infield, Glenn, Hitler’s Secret Life, Hamlyn, 1980

  Ironside, Edmund, The Ironside Diaries 1937–40, Constable, 1962

  Irving, David, Accident: The Death of General Sikorski, William Kimber, 1967

  Jackson, Robert, Coroner, George Harrap, 1963

  ——, Unexplained Mysteries of World War II, Quantum, 2000

  James, Robert Rhodes, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, Harmondsworth, 1970

  Johnson, Derek, East Anglia at War 2nd edn., Jarrold, 1992

  Jolly, Cyril, The Vengeance of Private Pooley, William Heinemann, 1956

  Jones, R.V., Most Secret War, Hamish Hamilton, 1978

  ——, Reflections on Intelligence, Heinemann, 1989

  Jones, Stephen, James Herbert: By Horror Haunted, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992

  Karslake, Basil, 1940 – The Last Act, Leo Cooper, 1979

  Kaufmann, J.E., Hitler’s Blitzkrieg Campaigns, Combined Books, 1993

  Keegan, John, The Battle for History, Hutchinson, 1995

  Kersaudy, François, Churchill and De Gaulle, Collins, 1981

  King, Cecil, With Malice Towards None, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970

  King, Francis, Satan and Swastika, Mayflower, 1970

  Kinsey, Gordon, Bawdsey – Birth of the Beam, Terence Dalton, 1983

  ——, Boulton & Paul Aircraft, Terence Dalton, 1992

  Kleffens, E.N. Van, The Rape of the Netherlands, Hodder & Stoughton, 1940

  Klemmer, Harvey, They’ll Never Quit, Peter Davies, 1941

  Klemperer, Klemens von, German Resistance to Hitler, Oxford University Press, 1992

  Knightley, Phillip, The First Casualty, Quartet, 1982

  Knowles, David, Escape from Catastrophe, Knowles, 2000

  Koestler, Arthur, The Scum of the Earth, Gollancz, 1941

  Korganoff, Alexandre, The Phantom of Scapa Flow, Ian Allen, 1974

  Kuby, Erich, The Russians and Berlin, Hill & Wang, 1968

  Lafitte, L., The Internment of Aliens, Penguin, 1940

  Lampe, David, The Last Ditch, Cassell, 1968

  Le Tissier, Tony, Berlin Then and Now, After The Battle, 1992

  ——, Farewell to Spandau, Ashford, Buchan & Knight, 1994

  Leasor, James, Rudolf Hess: The Uninvited Envoy, Allen & Unwin, 1962

  Lehmann, John, Thrown to the Woolfs, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978

  Lewis, Peter and English, Ian, 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry 1939–45, J & P Bealls Ltd, 1949

  Longmate, Norman, How We Lived Then, Hutchinson, 1971

  ——, The Home Front, Chatto & Windus, 1981

  Lord, Walter, The Miracle of Dunkirk, Allen Lane, 1983

  Lovell, Stanley, Of Spies and Stratagems, Prentice-Hall, 1963

  Lusar, Rudolf, German Secret Weapons of the Second World War, Neville Spearman, 1959

  McCormick, Donald, Murder by Witchcraft, John Long, 1968

  ——, 17F: The Life of Ian Fleming, Peter Owen, 1993

  Machtan, Lothar, The Hidden Hitler, Perseus Press, 2001

  McInnis, Edgar, The War – First Year, Oxford University Press, 1940

  McKale, Donald, Hitler: The Survival Myth, Stein & Day, 1981

  Mackenzie, S.P., The Home Guard, Oxford University Press, 1995

  Macksey, Kenneth, The Shadow of Vimy Ridge, William Kimber, 1965

  MacLean, Hector, Fighters in Defence, private printing, 1999

  Maguire, Eric, Dieppe August 19, Jonathan Cape, 1963

  Mannheim, Hermann, War and Crime, Watts & Co, 1941

  Martel, Giffard, An Outspoken Soldier, Sifton Praed, 1949

  Marwick, Arthur, The Home Front, Thames & Hudson, 1976

  Maser, Werner, Adolf Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality, Allen Lane, 1973

  Masterman, J.C., The Double Cross System, Yale University Press, 1972

  Masters, Anthony, The Man Who Was M, Blackwell, 1984

  Mitchison, Naomi, Among You Taking Notes, Victor Gollancz, 1985

  Moen, Lars, Under the Iron Heel, Robert Hale, 1941

  Monsarrat, Nichola
s, Life is a Four-Letter Word, Cassell, 1966

  Montagu, Ewen, The Man Who Never Was, Evans Brothers, 1953

  ——, Beyond Top Secret U, Peter Davies, 1977

  Montgomery, Bernard, Memoirs, Collins, 1958

  Moore, Bob and Fedorowich, Kent, Prisoners of War and Their Captors in WW2, Berg, 1996

  Moore, Bob (ed.), Resistance in Western Europe, Berg, 2000

  Mosley, Leonard, Backs to the Wall, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971

  Moynihan, Michael, People at War, David & Charles, 1974

  Muggeridge, Malcolm, The Infernal Grove, Collins, 1973

  Mure, David, Master of Deception, William Kimber, 1980

  Neillands, Robin, The Bomber War, John Murray, 2001

  Nesbit, Roy Conyers, The Flight of Rudolf Hess, Sutton, 1999

  Newton, Scott, Profits of Peace, Clarendon Press, 1996

  Nicholas, Sian, Echoes of War, Manchester University Press, 1996

  Nicolson, Harold, Diaries and Letters 1930–64, Collins, 1980

  Nixon, Barbara, Raiders Overhead, Lindsay Drummond, 1943

  O’Donnell, James, The Berlin Bunker, J.M. Dent, 1979

  Paassen, Pierre van, That Day Alone, Dial Press, 1941

  Padfield, Peter, Hess: Flight for the Führer, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1991

  Paine, Lauran, The Abwehr, Robert Hale, 1984

  Pallud, Jean-Paul, Blitzkrieg in the West – Then and Now, Plaistow Press, 1991

  Panter-Downes, Mollie, London War Notes 1939–45, Longman, 1971

  Patton, George S., The War As I Knew It, Houghton Mifflin, 1947

  Perry, Colin, Boy in the Blitz, Colin Perry, 1972

  Picknett, Lynn, Prince, Clive and Prior, Stephen, Double Standards, Little Brown, 2001

  Piekalkiewicz, Janusz, Secret Agents, Spies and Saboteurs, David & Charles, 1974

  Pinto, Oreste, Spycatcher, Werner Laurie, 1952

  ——, The Spycatcher Omnibus, Hodder & Stoughton, 1962

  Ponting, Clive, 1940: Myth and Reality, Hamish Hamilton, 1990

  Prien, Gunter, I Sank the Royal Oak, Grays Inn Press, 1954

  Ramsey, Winston (ed.), Battle of Britain – Then & Now, Plaistow Press, 1980

  —— (ed.), The Blitz – Then & Now (vol. 1), Plaistow Press, 1987

  —— (ed.), The Blitz – Then & Now (vol. 2), Plaistow Press, 1988

  —— (ed.), The Blitz – Then & Now (vol. 3), Plaistow Press, 1990

  Ravenscroft, Trevor, The Spear of Destiny, Neville Spearman, 1973

  Rawnsley, C.F and Wright, Robert, Night Fighter, Collins, 1957

  Read, Anthony and Fisher, David, Colonel Z, Hodder & Stoughton, 1984

  Redlich, Fritz, Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet, Oxford University Press, 1999

  Regan, Geoffrey, Great Military Blunders, Channel 4 Books, 2000

  Rhodes, Anthony, Sword of Bone, Faber & Faber, 1942

  Rissik, David, The DLI at War 1939–45, private printing, 1953

  Robertson, Terence, Dieppe, Hutchinson, 1963

  Roos, Hans, A History of Modern Poland, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966

  Royde Smith, Naomi, Outside Information, Macmillan, 1941

  Rubinstein, William, The Myth of Rescue, Routledge, 1997

  Ruby, Marcel, F Section SOE, Leo Cooper, 1988

  Rusbridger, James, The Intelligence Game, The Bodley Head, 1989

  Ryan, Cornelius, A Bridge Too Far, Hamish Hamilton, 1974

  Savignon, André, With Plymouth Through Fire, SE Ouston, 1968

  Sayer, Ian and Botting, Douglas, Hitler’s Last General, Bantam Press, 1989

  Scannell, Vernon, Argument of Kings, Robson Books, 1987

  Schellenberg, Walter, The Schellenberg Memoirs, André Deutsch, 1956

  ——, Invasion 1940, St Ermin’s Press, 2000

  Schenk, Peter, The Invasion of England 1940, Conway Maritime Press, 1990

  Scotland, A.P., The London Cage, Evans Brothers, 1957

  Seth, Ronald, The Truth Benders, Leslie Frewin, 1969

  Shirer, William, Berlin Diary, Alfred Knopf, 1941

  ——, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Secker & Warburg, 1960

  Singer, Kurt, Spies and Traitors, W.H. Allen, 1953

  ——, Spy Omnibus, W.H. Allen, 1959

  Smithies, Edward, Crime in Wartime, Allen & Unwin, 1982

  Snagge, John & Barsley, Michael, Those Vintage Years of Radio, Pitman, 1972

  Snyder, Gerald, The Royal Oak Disaster, William Kimber, 1976

  Spaight, J.M., The Battle of Britain 1940, Geoffrey Bles, 1941

  Spence, Lewis, The Occult Causes of the Present War, Rider & Co, 1943

  Stein, George, The Waffen-SS, Oxford University Press, 1966

  Stockman, Rocky, The History of RAF Manston (3rd edn.), RAF Association, 1986

  Sydnor, Charles, Soldiers of Destruction, Princetown University Press, 1977

  Tabori, Paul, The Private Life of Adolf Hitler, Aldor, 1949

  Thomas, Hugh, The Murder of Rudolf Hess, Hodder & Stoughton, 1979

  ——, Doppelgänger, Fourth Estate, 1995

  ——, SS1 – The Untimely Death of Heinrich Hitler, Fourth Estate, 2001

  Thompson, Carlos, The Assassination of Winston Churchill, Colin Smyth, 1969

  Thompson, Laurence, 1940 – Year of Legend, Year of History, Collins, 1966

  Thomson, George, Blue Pencil Admiral, Sampson Low, 1947

  Trevor-Roper, Hugh, The Last Days of Hitler, Macmillan, 1947

  Troy, Thomas, Wild Bill and Intrepid, Yale University Press, 1996

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

  Villa, Brian, Unauthorized Action, Oxford University Press, 1994

  Vince, Charles, Storm on the Waters, Hodder & Stoughton, 1946

  Wahlen, Richard, The Founding Father, Hutchinson, 1965

  Waite, Robert, The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, Basic Books (New York), 1977

  Watson, Peter and Petrova, Ada, The Death of Hitler, Richard Cohen, 1995

  Wavell, Archibald, Allenby – A Study in Greatness, George Harrap, 1940

  Way, Chris, Glenn Miller in Britain Then and Now, After the Battle, 1996

  Weaver, H.J., Nightmare at Scapa Flow, Cressrelles, 1980

  Wegmann, Rolph and Widfeldt, Bo, Making for Sweden, Air Research Publications, 1997

  West, Nigel, MI5 (1909–1945), The Bodley Head, 1981

  ——, MI6 (1909–1945), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983

  ——, Unreliable Witness, Grafton, 1986

  ——, Counterfeit Spies, St Ermin’s Press, 1998

  ——, British Security Co-ordination, St Ermin’s Press, 1998

  Westphal, Siegfried, The German Army in the West, Cassell, 1951

  Wheatley, Dennis, Black August, Hutchinson, 1934

  ——, Stranger Than Fiction, Hutchinson, 1959

  White, John Baker, The Big Lie, Evans Brothers, 1955

  Wighton, Charles and Peis, Gunter, They Spied on England, Odhams, 1958

  Wilkins, Harold, Flying Saucers on the Moon, Peter Owen, 1954

  Williams, Douglas, The New Contemptibles, John Murray, 1940

  Williamson, Anne, Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic, Sutton Publishing, 1995

  Wilson, Patrick, Dunkirk, Leo Cooper, 2000

  Winterbotham, F.W., The Ultra Secret, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974

  Wolff, Helmut, Die Deutschen Kriegsgefangen in Britischer Hand, Verlag Gieseking, Munich, 1974

  Woon, Basil, Hell Came to London, Peter Davies, 1941

  Young, Martin and Stamp, Robbie, Trojan Horses, Bodley Head, 1989

  Zaloga, Steven J., The Polish Army 1939–45, Osprey, 1982

  Ziegler, Philip, London at War 1939–45, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995

  Essays

  Alexander, Martin, ‘No Taste for the Fight?’, in Addison & Calder (1997)

  Anonymous, ‘The Rumor Racket’ (in 20 Army Talks), US Army publication, July 1945

  Bond, Brian, ‘The British Field Force in France and Belgium
1939–40’, in Addison & Calder (1997)

  Sullivan, Brian, ‘The Italian Soldier in Combat’, in Addison & Calder (1997)

  Forewords and Introductions

  Colvin, Ian, Canaris (Brissaud), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973

  Stripp, Alan, The Man Who Never Was (Montagu), Oxford University Press, 1996

  Trevor-Roper, Hugh, Preface to 7th edn. of The Last Days of Hitler, Papermac/Macmillan, 1995

  West, Nigel, Invasion 1940 (Schellenberg), St Ermin’s Press, 2000

  Magazine Articles

  Bateman, Denis C., ‘Rudolf Hess’, After the Battle 58, 1987

  Collins, Paul, ‘The UFOs of 1942, Exploring the Unknown’ 48, 1968

  Creighton, Gordon, ‘Foo Fighters’, Flying Saucer Review, March–April 1962

  ——, ‘The Man Who Almost Is’, After the Battle 54, 1986

  Morgan, Roger, ‘The Second World War’s Best Kept Secret Revealed’, After the Battle 94, 1996

  Ramsey, Winston, ‘Dieppe 1942’, After the Battle 5, 1974

  ——, ‘Himmler’s Suicide’, After the Battle 14, 1976

  ——, ‘Major Martin – the Story Continues’, After the Battle 64, 1989

  ——, ‘From the Editor’, After the Battle 100, 1998

  Smith, David J., ‘The Death of the Duke of Kent’, After the Battle 37, 1982

  Plates

  The fiction: how German propaganda depicted Dunkirk to the French. (Author’s collection)

  The fact: some of the 170,000 French troops evacuated to Britain. (Author’s collection)

  A British soldier wearing a ‘trophied’ Waffen-SS steel helmet. (Author’s collection)

  Disconsolate German prisoners at Dover in May 1940, having crossed from Dunkirk. (Author’s collection)

  A stereotypically ‘Germanic’ fifth-columnist in French hands. (Author’s collection)

  Another alleged fifth-columnist in French custody, soon to be ‘rendered harmless for good’ according to the original caption. (Author’s collection)

  A rare photograph of German Brandenburg troops in action in May 1940, masquerading as Dutch military police to capture a canal bridge at Roosteren. (After the Battle)

  The Lancastria goes down off the French coast, 17 June 1940. (After the Battle)

  An armed guard to prevent looting, Birkenhead, March 1941. (Author’s collection)