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Authors: Jonathan Fenby
Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord, (ed. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman)
War Diaries, 1939–1945
, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001)
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The Turn of the Tide, 1939–43
(London: Collins, 1959)
Bond, Geoffrey,
Lancastria
(London: Olbourne, 1959)
Booth, Clare,
European Spring
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1941)
Bourdon, Emile,
L’Inattendu
(Laval: Siloë, 1996)
Cadogan, Sir Alexander, (ed. David Dilks)
The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, O. M., 1938–1945
, (London: Cassell, 1971)
Colville, John,
The Fringes of Power
(London: Hodder & Stoughton 1985)
Churchill, Winston,
The Second World War
, Vol. 2 (London: Cassell, 1950)
Flowers, Vic,
Premonition of Disaster
(Wartime News, 1998)
Grattidge, Harry,
Captain of the Queens
(London: Olbourne, 1956)
Gilbert, Martin,
Second World War
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989)
Horne, Alistair,
To Lose a Battle: France, 1940
(London: Penguin, 1979)
Jackson, Julian,
The Fall of France
(Oxford: OUP, 2003)
Jenkins, Roy,
Churchill
(London: Pan, 2002)
Karslake, Basil,
1940, The Last Act
(London: Leo Cooper, 1979)
Kersaudy, François,
De Gaulle et Churchill
(Paris: Perrin, 2001)
Maclean, Alistair,
The Lonely Sea
(London: Collins, 1985)
Reynaud, Paul,
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(London: Cassell, 1955)
Roskill, S.W.,
War at Sea
(London: HMSO, 1954)
——,
The Navy at War
(London: Collins, 1960)
Stahl, Peter,
The Diving Eagle
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Spears, Edward,
Assignment to Catastrophe
, Vol. 2 (London: Heinemann, 1954)
Williams, Charles,
The Last Great Frenchman
(London: Little Brown, 1993)
Winter, John de S,
BEF Ships Before, At and After Dunkirk
(Gravesend: World Ship Society, 1999)
INDEX
André, M.,
ref1
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders,
ref1
Armoured Division (1st),
ref1
Attlee, Clement,
ref1
Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps,
ref1
Bardell, Samuel Valentine,
ref1
Batory
,
ref1
Beauman Division,
ref1
Berry, George,
ref1
Booth, Clare,
ref1
Bordeaux,
ref1
Bowden, Isobella Macclaine,
ref1
,
ref2
Bradbury, Major Leslie,
ref1
Brest,
ref1
British Expeditionary Force (BEF),
ref1
,
ref2
British Naval War Diary,
ref1
Broadbent, John,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
Brogden, Frank,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
Brooke, General Alan,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Cadogan, Sir Alexander,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
Cambridgeshire
, HMS,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Campbell, Sir Ronald,
ref1
,
ref2
Carinthia
,
ref1
Champlain
,
ref1
Chesterton, Neville,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
Churchill, Winston,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
; and de Gaulle,
ref1
; and Dunkirk evacuation,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
; and France,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
; and Franco-British Union proposal,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
; prevention of France’s fleet falling into German hands,
ref1
; speeches,
ref1
; suppressing of reports on
Lancastria
disaster,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
; view of France seeking armistice terms with Germany,
ref1
Classey, Grace,
ref1
Coe, Lance Corporal Fred,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
,
ref10
,
ref11
Colville, John,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
ref1
Cook, Bertie,
ref1
Coudray Tronson, Lieutenant Colonel Norman de,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
Crew, G. F.,
ref1
Cunard Steamship Company,
ref1
Cunliffe, Burt,
ref1
Curran, Joe,
ref1
Cuthbert, Alec,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
de Gaulle, General Charles,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
,
ref10
,
ref11
,
ref12
,
ref13
,
ref14
Dill, Sir John,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
Diving Eagle squadron (KG30 unit),
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
Dönitz, Admiral,
ref1
Dorsetshire
,
ref1
Drage, Arthur,
ref1
Drake
, HMS,
ref1
Draycott, Donald,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Driver, Norman,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
Drummond, J. H.,
ref1
Duchess of York
,
ref1
Duggan, Alfred Edwin,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
Duggan, John,
ref1
Dunbar, James,
ref1
Dunkirk evacuation,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
Dunmall, Sidney,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
,
ref10
,
ref11
Earle, Lieutenant Colonel,
ref1
Ellis, Margaret,
ref1
Evans, Roger,
ref1
Fairey Aviation Company,
ref1
Fairfax, Major Percy,
ref1
,
ref2
Field, Captain,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
Flowers, Stan,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
,
ref10
,
ref11
Flowers, Vic,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Forde, Leonard,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Ford, Colonel V. T. R.,
ref1
Fortune, General Victor,
ref1
France: armistice agreed with Germany,
ref1
,
ref2
; collapse of under German advance,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
; destruction of military equipment to prevent falling into German hands,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
; entering of Paris by Germans,
ref1
,
ref2
; losses,
ref1
; proposal of union with Britain and opposition to,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
; relations with Britain,
ref1
; seeking of armistice with Germany,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
; troops remaining in after Dunkirk evacuation,
ref1
;
see also
St-Nazaire
Freeman, Claudine,
ref1
Frodsham, Thomas (‘Shorty’),
ref1
Fuller, Captain,
ref1
Georges, General,
ref1
Grahame, Christine,
ref1
Grattidge, Chief Officer,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
,
ref10
,
ref11
,
ref12
,
ref13
,
ref14
,
ref15
,
ref16
Greenwood, Arthur,
ref1
Griggs, Captain F. E.,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
Hahn, Major Fred,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
Hamper, Mrs D.,
ref1
Hanley, Patrick,
ref1
Harding, Henry,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
Harpathian
,
ref1
Havelock
, HMS,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
,
ref10
Highland Division (51st),
ref1
,
ref2
Highlander
,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
Hill, Sergeant Robert,
ref1
Hitler, Adolf,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Holt, Reverend,
ref1
Hooper, Muriel,
ref1
Horne, W.,
ref1
Hutchison, Thomas,
ref1
Ismay, Hastings ‘Pug’,
ref1
,
ref2
James, Admiral,
ref1
Jean Bart
,
ref1
John Holt
,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
Jory, Mrs,
ref1
Joyce, William, (Lord Haw-Haw),
ref1
JU-88s,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
Karslake, General Henry,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
Kennedy, Joseph,
ref1
KG30 Diving Eagle unit
see
Diving Eagle squadron
Kingett, Stanley,
ref1
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry,
ref1
Knight, William,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
La Bernerie,
ref1
Lancastria
Association,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
Lancastria
disaster (in chronological order): specifications and description of ship,
ref1
; fitting out as troopship,
ref1
; recalled for urgent mission,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
; setting sail for France and heading for St-Nazaire,
ref1
,
ref2
; enters estuary off St-Nazaire,
ref1
; boarding of troops at St-Nazaire,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
; delay in leaving St-Nazaire,
ref1
; bombing of,
ref1
,
ref2
; sinking of,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
; surviving in sea,
ref1
; rescue of survivors,
ref1
; first mention of disaster in the British Naval War Diary,
ref1
; leaving of survivors from St-Nazaire for England,
ref1
,
ref2
; suppressing of reports on disaster by Churchill,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
; arrival of survivors in England,
ref1
; bodies washed up onto beaches and burial of,
ref1
; breaking of story in press,
ref1
; aftermath,
ref1
; awards to crew,
ref1
; annual memorial service,
ref1
; sixtieth anniversary pilgrimage by
Lancastria
Association,
ref1
; sixty-fifth anniversary pilgrimage by
Lancastria
Association,
ref1
; designated maritime monument by French,
ref1
; reasons for silence over,
ref1
; death toll,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,