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*[https://archive.org/details/turnoftidehistor00brya/mode/2up ''The Turn of the Tide; a History of the War Years based on the diaries of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff''] by Arthur Bryant. 1957. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/businessofwar011004mbp/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Business Of War: The War Narrative of Major-General Sir John Kennedy''] edited by Bernard Fergusson 1957. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207507/page/n5/mode/2up ''African Trilogy'' comprising ''Mediterrean Front, A Year of Battle, The End in Africa''] by Alan Moorhead first published 1944 Archive.org. Moorhead was war correspondent for the ''London Daily Express''
*[https://archive.org/details/desertgenerals00barn/mode/2up ''The Desert Generals''] by Correlli Barnett 1960. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. The Generals included are Auchinleck, Cunningham, Montgomery, O'Connor and Ritchie.
:[https://archive.org/details/desertgenerals0000barn/mode/2up ''The Desert Generals''] by Correlli Barnett 1986 reprint of a 1982 New and Enlarged Edition. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/memoirsoffieldma000248mbp/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K. G''] 1958 Archive.org. Missing one Contents page. [https://archive.org/details/memoirsoffieldma00mont/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library] version, 1959 reprint.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274860 ''Auchinleck: A Biography of Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck''] by John Connell (pseud. John Henry Robertson) 1959 Archive.org. Auchinleck was appointed Commander-in Chief, India on 20 June 1943, but the role was restricted to not include operations against the Japanese.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527964/page/n3/mode/2up ''Wavell In The Middle East''] by Major-General H Rowan-Robinson 2nd impression, first published c 1942. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/wavellscholarsol0000conn_x5g9/page/n7/mode/2up ''Wavell, Scholar and Soldier: To June 1941''] by John Connell (pseud. of John Henry Robertson) 1964. [https://archive.org/details/wavellscholarsol0000conn/page/n7/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. There was a further book published ''Wavell, Supreme Commander, 1941-1943'' by John Connell (pseud. John Henry Robertson), edited and completed by Michael Roberts 1969. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000764973 .
:[https://archive.org/details/chieffieldmarsha00lewi/mode/2up ''The Chief : Field Marshal Lord Wavell, Commander-in-Chief and Viceroy, 1939-1947''] by Ronald Lewin 1980 [https://archive.org/details/chief00rona File 2], [https://archive.org/details/chieffieldmarsha0000lewi/mode/2up File 3] Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/crucibleofwar00pitt/mode/2up ''The Crucible of War: Volume I Wavell’s Command''] by Barrie Pitt 2001. Additional wording on cover ''The definitive history of the Desert War''. Published in three volumes 2001, first published in two volumes 1980 and 1982 with titles ''Crucible of War : Western Dessert 1941'' and ''The Crucible of War: Year of Alamein 1942''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:''The Crucible of War: Volume II Auchinleck's Command'' not available online, but available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006723011. Editions, all catalogued 1980, are available on HathiTrust Digital Library, University access only.
:[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/hm-ships-damaged-or-sunk-enemy-action-wwii BR 1886 (C.B. 4273 (52) ''H.M. Ships Damaged or Sunk by Enemy Action 3 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945''] Based on reports held in the Admiralty at the time of its publication in 1952. A publication in the Navy Department: Reference Books (BR Series). Website of the Royal Australian Navy.
*[https://archive.org/details/valiantvoyagings0000saun/page/n9 ''Valiant voyaging : a short history of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War, 1939-1945''] by Hilary St. George Saunders 1948. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes a Roll of Honour of Officers and Men who lost their lives at sea due to enemy action.
*''History of the Second World War. United Kingdom Civil Series [https://archive.org/details/economicblockade012328mbp/page/n5/mode/2up The Economic Blockade Volume I''] by W. N. Medlicott 1952 HMSO Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/secondworldwarin0000holm ''The Second World War in Photographs''] by Richard Holmes in association with the Imperial War Museum. 2000.
:[https://archive.org/details/worldatwarlandma0000holm ''The World at War : the landmark oral history from the previously unpublished archives''] by Richard Holmes 2008. Both Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/europeoneve0000schu/page/n7 ''Europe on the Eve. The Crises of Diplomacy 1933-1939''] by Frederick L Schuman 1939. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/nightovereuroped0000schu/page/n7 ''Night over Europe; the Diplomacy of Nemesis, 1939-1940''] by Frederick L Schuman 1941. [https://archive.org/details/nightovereuroped00schurich/page/n7 File 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/officestoryofbri0000conn/page/n7/mode/2up ''The "Office": the Story of the British Foreign Office, 1919-1951''] by John Connell (pseud. John Henry Robertson) 1958 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/appeasementengli0000oven/page/n5/mode/2up '''Appeasement' and the English speaking world : Britain, the United States, the Dominions, and the policy of 'Appeasement' 1937-1939''] by Ritchie Ovendale 1975. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/countdowntowarpe0000coxg/page/n5/mode/2up ''Countdown to war : a personal memoir of Europe, 1938-40''] by Geoffrey Cox 1988. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Cox_(journalist) Geoffrey Cox (journalist)] Wikipedia
