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Maskelyne, Jasper : Magic - Top Secret , White Magic

Booth, John : Linking Ring Articles , February & March, 1985.

Personal Correspondence from Alistair Maskelyne —1st letter : 9th July, 1993. 2nd letter : 4th Nov 1993. 3rd letter : 1st March, 1994. 4th letter : 20th April, 1994.

 

General background :

Ellis , John : Brute Force : Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War (1990)

Hinsley , F.H. : British Intelligence in the Second World War (1993)

Keegan , John : The Second World War (1989)

Weinberg , Gerhard L : A World At Arms : A Global History of World War II (1994)

 

Clandestine Operations :

Foot, M & Langley, J : MI-9 : Escape and Evasion (1979)

Foot, M : SOE 1940-1946 (1984)

Fraser-Smith , Charles : The Secret War of Charles Fraser-Smith (1983)

Hutton , Clayton : Official Secret (1961)

Ladd, J & Melton, K: Clandestine Warfare: Weapons and Equipment of the SOE and OSS (1988)

Melton , K : OSS Special Weapons & Equipment : Spy Devices of WWII (1991)

Mure, David : Practise to Deceive (1977) ; Master of Deception (1980)

Shoemaker, Lloyd : The Escape Factory : The Story of MIS-X (1990)

Stafford, David : Camp X : Myth and Reality (1986)

West, Nigel : Secret War, The Story of SOE (1992)

 

North Africa Campaign :

Cooper, Artemis : Cairo in the War (1989)

Fraser, David : Knight's Cross — A Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (1993)

Gilbert, Adrian : The Desert War 1940-1942 (1992)

Lewin , Ronald : The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps (1977)

McKee, Alexander : El Alamein — Ultra and the Three Battles (1991)

 

Deception :

Cruikshank, Charles : Deception in World War Two (1979)

Handel , Michael (Ed.) : Strategic and Operational Deception in World War Two (1987)

Howard , Michael : Strategic Deception in the Second World War (1990)

Young, M. & Stamp, R. : Trojan Horses — Deception Operations in World War Two (1989)

 

Camouflage:

Barkas , Geoffrey : The Camouflage Story (1952)

Hartcup, Guy : Camouflage (1979)

Powys-Lybbe, Ursula : The Eye of Intelligence (1983)

Sykes, Stephen : Deceivers Ever — The Memoirs of a Camouflage Officer (1990)

 

Normandy :

Ambrose, Stephen : D-Day June 6 1944 (1994)

Hastings, Max : Overlord (1984)

 

Special Articles :

Hinsley, F.H.:The Influence of Ultra in the Second World War — from Codebreakers (1993)

Kahn, David : The International Conference on ULTRA , Military Affairs (April 1979)

Levine, A.J. : Was World War II a Near-run Thing?, Journal of Strategic Studies, 8 (1985)

Morewood, S. : Protecting the Jugular Vein of Empire :The Suez Canal in British Defence Strategy (War & Society , Vol. 10, No. 1, May 1992)

 

 

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