Bibliography of books with further details of the Pat Line and other E&E related subjects |
This page updated 27 Oct 2023 |
| Ayris, Cyril (1994) Bob Milton MC, The Man Who Stayed Behind PK Print Pty Ltd, Australia |
| Barclay, George (1976) Fighter Pilot (Ed. Humphrey Wynne) William Kimber |
| Bacquié, Bernard (2014) Des Héros Sans Importance Editions Latérales |
| Benet, Claude (2009) Passeurs, Fugitifs et Espions Le Pas d'oiseau |
| Braddon, Russell (1956) Nancy Wake Cassell |
| Bradford, Andrew (2009) Escape from Saint Valéry-en-Caux The History Press |
| Bickers, Richard Townsend (1992) Home Run Leo Cooper |
| Brome, Vincent (1957) The Way Back Cassell |
| Broussine, Georges (2000) L'évadé de la France Libre Tallandier |
| Caine Philip D (1997) Aircraft Down! Potomac Books |
| Cardigan, Earl of (1950) I Walked Alone Routledge and Keagan Paul |
| Caskie, Donald (1957) The Tartan Pimpernel Oldbourne Press |
| Chevalier, Hugues (2006) Crashs sur le Pas-de-Calais 1940-1945 Tournai Graphic |
| Clark, Freddie (1999) Agents by Moonlight Tempus Publishing |
| Clutton-Brock, Oliver (1994) Massacre Over The Marne Patrick Stephens Limited |
| Clutton-Brock, Oliver (2003) Footprints on the Sands of Time Grub Street |
| Clutton-Brock, Oliver (2009) RAF Evaders Grub Street |
| Cooper, Alan W (1988) Free to Fight Again William Kimber |
| Cooper, Captain Dick (1957) Adventures of a Secret Agent Frederick Muller |
| Cosgrove, Edmund (1970) The Evaders Clarke, Irwin & Co, Canada |
| Coss, Wesley G (2007) Stardust Falling published by the author |
| Cowburn, Ben (1960) No Cloak, No Dagger The Adventurers Club |
| Damer, Seán & Frazer, Ian (2006) On The Run - ANZAC Escape and Evasion in Enemy-Occupied Crete Penguin |
| Darling, Donald (1975) Secret Sunday William Kimber |
| Darling, Donald (1977) Sunday at Large William Kimber |
| David, Saul (1994) Churchill's Sacrifice of the Highland Division Brassy's |
| de Merode, Werner (1985) Deux evasions d'un pilote de chasse Editions J M Collet |
| Deane-Drummond, Anthony (1953) Return Ticket Collins |
| Dothie, W H (1985) Operation Disembroil Robert Hale |
| Dowding, Peter & Spillman, Ken (2023) Secret Agent, Unsung Hero Pen and Sword |
| Dumais, Lucian (1975) The Man Who Went Back Leo Cooper |
| Dumon, Andrée (2022) I haven't forgotten you Published on behalf of the author - click here for details |
| Duncan, Michael (1954) Underground from Posen William Kimber |
| Edgar, Donald (1983) Day of Reckoning John Clare Books |
| Evans, Alfred John (1921) The Escaping Club Bodley Head |
| Evans, A J (1945) Escape and Liberation 1940-1945 Hodder & Stoughton |
| Fittko, Lisa (2000) Escape Through the Pyrenees Northwestern University Press Jewish Lives paperback |
| Foot MRD (1966) SOE in France HMSO |
| Foot MRD & Langley JM (1979) MI9 Escape and Evasion 1939-45 Bodley Head |
| Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine (1974) Noah's Ark E P Dutton & Company NY |
| Fry, Varian (1945) Surrender on Demand Random House New York |
| Furniss-Roe, Bill (1987) Believed Safe William Kimber |
| Furse, Elizabeth & Barr, Ann (1993) Dream Weaver Chapmans |
| Gibbs, Patrick (1961) It's Further via Gibraltar Faber and Faber |
| Griffiths, Frank (1981) Winged Hours William Kimber |
| Hampshire, A Cecil (1974) On Hazardous Service William Kimber |
| Harding, Stephen (2019) Escape from Paris Da Capo Press |
| Hore, Peter (2016) Lindell's List The History Press |
| Howarth, David (1955) We Die Alone William Collins |
| Huguen, Roger (1976) Par les nuits les plus longues Coop Breizh |
| Huguen, Roger (2003) La Bretagne dans la bataille de l'Atlantique Coop Breizh |
| Instone, Gordon (1953) Freedom the Spur Burke Publishing (later Pan Books) |
| James, David (1947) Escaper's Progress Blackwoods Magazine (later Brown & Watson and Corgi editions) |
| Janes, Keith (2017) They came from Burgundy Troubador - click here for details |
| Janes, Keith (2019) Express Delivery Troubador - click here for details |
| Janes, Keith (2023) Les colis du réseau François-Shelburn Traduit par Alain Prujiner et Line Ross L'Harmattan Paris |
| Janes, Peter Scott (2004) Conscript Heroes Paul Mould Publishers |
| Jeffery, Ron (1985) Red Runs the Vistula Nevron Associates, New Zealand |
| Jouan, Cecile (1948) Comète, histoire d'un ligne d'évasion Editions du Beffroi |
| Jullian, Marcel (1957) HMS Fidelity Souvenir Press |
| Kemp, Anthony (1986) The Secret Hunters Michael O'Mara |
| Knaggs, Bill (2001) The Easy Trip Perth & Kinross Libraries |
| Kramer, Rita (1995) Flames in the Field Michael Joseph |
| Lang, Derek (1974) Return to St Valery Leo Cooper |
| Langley, James M (1974) Fight Another Day Collins |
| Lavender, Emerson & Sheffe, Norman (1992) The Evaders McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Canada |
| Le Blanc, Philippe (2015)
Comète, le réseau derrière la ligne DD Memogrammes |
| Lett Gordon (1955) Rossano Hodder & Stoughton |
| Liddell Hart, Basil (1970) History of the Second World War Cassell |
| Long, Helen (1985) Safe Houses are Dangerous William Kimber |
| Lyman, Robert (2014) The Jail Busters Quercus |
| Magener Rolf (1954) Prisoners' Bluff Rupert Hart-Davis (originally Die Chance War Null Ullstein, Vienna) |
| Marks, Leo (1999) Between Silk and Cyanide Harper Collins |
| Marriott, Edward (2005) Claude and Madeleine Picador |
| Marshall, Robert (1988) All the King's Men William Collins |
| Mavré, Marcel (2006) La Guerre 39-45 Dans le Ciel de L'Oise Editions Delattre |
| Meynell, Laurence (1963) Airmen on the Run Odham Press |
| Milner, Charles (Hamilton, Guy & Seddon, Ronald) (2015) HM MTB 718 Something Special York Publishing Services |
| Moore, William (1986) The Long Way Round Leo Cooper/Secker & Warburg |
| Murphy, Brendan (1987) Turncoat Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Orlando, Fla. 32887 |
| Nabarro, Derrick (1952) Wait for the Dawn Cassell |
| Neave, Airey (1953) They Have Their Exits Hodder & Stoughton |
| Neave, Airey (1954) Little Cyclone Hodder & Stoughton |
| Neave, Airey (1969) Saturday at MI9 Hodder & Stoughton |
| Newman, Philip (1983) Safer Than a Known Way William Kimber |
| Nilsson, Lars-Axel & Sandberg, Leif A (1996) Blockade Runners - English version published by the authors |
| Nouveau, Louis (1958) Des Capitaines Par Milliers Calman-Levy |
| Ottis, Sherri (2001) Silent Heroes: Downed Airmen and the French Underground University Press Kentucky |
| Pateman, Colin & Clutton-Brock, Oliver (2012) Unwanted Hero Fonthill |
| Penna, Cyril (1987) Escape and Evasion United Writers Cornwall |
| Postel-Vinay, André (1997) Un fou s'evade Félin, Paris |
| Potten, Charles (1986) 7 x X x 90 K Gandy and C Potten |
| Prosser David G (1945) Journey Underground E P Dutton & Company, New York |
| Rake, Denis (1968) Rake's Progress Leslie Frewin |
| Rawicz, Slavomir (1956) The Long Walk Chiswick Press or The Book Society |
| Rawlings, Barney (1994) Off We Went (Into the Wild Blue Yonder) privately published |
| Reid, P R (1952) The Colditz Story Hodder & Stoughton |
| Reid, P R (1953) The Latter Days at Colditz Hodder & Stoughton |
| Richards, Brooks (1996) Secret Flotillas HMSO |
| Richardson, Anthony (1953) Wingless Victory Companion Book Club |
| Richardson, Derek (2004) Detachment W Paul Mould Publishers |
| Robertson, Henry Ord (1989) Dangerous Landing Patrick Stephens |
| Rougeyron, Andre (1996) Agents for Escape Louisiana State University Press (orig Agents d'Evasion 1947) |
| Ryman, Robert (2012) Operation Suicide Quercus |
| Schadlich, Georg Martin (2000) Tales from Colditz Castle Thomas Schadlich |
| Scott, Lionel (1988) Parachuting to Danger Robert Hale (orig I Dropped In 1959) |
| Shiber, Etta (1943) Paris-Underground Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (reprinted by Time-Life 1989) |
| Simpson, William (1942) One of Our Pilots is Safe Hamish Hamilton |
| Slade, Timandra (2022) From a Hard Place to a Rock Troubador |
| Spiller, Herbert J (1988) Ticket to Freedom William Kimber |
| Teare, T D G (1954) Evader Hodder & Stoughton |
| Tessonneau, Rémy (1946) Jacques l'Amie d'Achille Chassany |
| Thomas, Jack (1955) No Banners W H Allen |
| Tickell, Jerrard (1949) Odette Chapman & Hall |
| Verity, Hugh (2000) We Landed by Moonlight - revised version Crecy (orig 1978 Ian Allen) |
| Wake, Nancy (1985) White Mouse Pan Australia |
| Walters, Anne-Marie (2009) Moondrop to Gascony Moho Books (orig 1946 Macmillan) |
| West, Nigel (1992) Secret War Hodder & Stoughton |
| Wynne, Barry (1961) No Drums … No Trumpets Arthur Baker Limited |
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Young, Gordon (1959) In Trust & Treason Studio Vista
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| Note that I am not recommending all these books (some of them are rubbish) but In addition to those books mentioned in the text there are several that I believe deserve special mention. We Landed by Moonlight and Secret Flotillas are classic reference works - the latter concerning the sea evacuations from France. No Banners is the story of Alfred and Henry Newton, extraordinary men that my dad met at Miranda and who went on to join SOE, whilst Between Silk and Cyanide is simply a great read which also happens to give remarkable insight to SOE personnel and operations. I Walked Alone is an excellent account by the Earl of Cardigan who walked from Belgium to the ZNO in 1940 and kept a diary. Saturday at MI9 gives a good overview of several escape lines whilst Little Cyclone is the story of the Belgian Comete line. PS. Should you come across the book They Fought Alone by John Keats whilst looking for Buckmaster's book of the same name, then grab it. It is a spectacular tale of evasion from another theatre of war and the story of one of my personal heroes, Wendell Fertig. Also highly recommended are The Long Walk by Slav Rawicz, an incredible story of endurance by escapers who walked 3,000 miles from Siberia to India in 1941, and Prisoners' Bluff by Rolf Magener, the story of two German internees held in India who escaped to Japanese forces in Burma. |
| I should also like to draw your attention to Oliver Clutton-Brock's 2009 book RAF Evaders. It is a particularly authorative and well written study of WW2 escapers and evaders in Western Europe and together with his Footprints on the Sands of Time, which details Bomber Command POWs in Germany, should be on every researcher's book-shelf. |
| During my research for They came from Burgundy, the 2007 book Stardust Falling was brought to my attention. Written and published by American evader Wesley Coss, it is by far the best of its kind I have ever read. |
