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Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord, (ed. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman)
War Diaries, 1939–1945
, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001)

Bryant, Arthur,
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,
In the Thick of the Fight
(London: Cassell, 1955)

Roskill, S.W.,
War at Sea
(London: HMSO, 1954)

——,
The Navy at War
(London: Collins, 1960)

Stahl, Peter,
The Diving Eagle
(London: William Kimber, 1978)

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

Baudouin, Paul,
ref1
,
ref2

Beal, Cal,
ref1
,
ref2

Beattie, Tom,
ref1
,
ref2

Beauman Division,
ref1

Berry, George,
ref1

Booth, Clare,
ref1

Bordeaux,
ref1

Bowden, Isobella Macclaine,
ref1
,
ref2

Boyd, Henry,
ref1
,
ref2

Bradbury, Major Leslie,
ref1

Braxton, Percy,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Brest,
ref1

British Expeditionary Force (BEF),
ref1
,
ref2

British Naval War Diary,
ref1

Brittany plan,
ref1
,
ref2

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

Chamley, Sister,
ref1
,
ref2

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

City of Mobile
,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Classey, Grace,
ref1

Clements, Frank,
ref1
,
ref2

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

Corbin, Charles,
ref1
,
ref2

Coudray Tronson, Lieutenant Colonel Norman de,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Couedel, Laurent,
ref1
,
ref2

Crew, G. F.,
ref1

Cunard Steamship Company,
ref1

Cunliffe, Burt,
ref1

Curran, Joe,
ref1

Cuthbert, Alec,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7

Cymbula
,
ref1
,
ref2

de Gaulle, General Charles,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
,
ref10
,
ref11
,
ref12
,
ref13
,
ref14

Delfosse, Julie,
ref1
,
ref2

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

Eden, Anthony,
ref1
,
ref2

Edwards, John,
ref1
,
ref2

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

Franconia
,
ref1
,
ref2

Freeman, Claudine,
ref1

Frodsham, Thomas (‘Shorty’),
ref1

Fuller, Captain,
ref1

Georges, General,
ref1

Georgic
,
ref1
,
ref2

Gourio, Claude,
ref1
,
ref2

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

Halifax, Lord,
ref1
,
ref2

Hamper, Mrs D.,
ref1

Hancock, Norman,
ref1
,
ref2

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

Huni, Pierre,
ref1
,
ref2

Hutchison, Thomas,
ref1

Ismay, Hastings ‘Pug’,
ref1
,
ref2

Italy,
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

Kain, ‘Cobber’,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Karslake, General Henry,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Keenan, Sid,
ref1
,
ref2

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 Baule,
ref1
,
ref2

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
,

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