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Further Reading & Resources

Below is a bibliography of relevant books, articles, televised documentaries and radio programmes for those who wish to learn more about Trent Park, the Sassoons and CSDIC (UK).

Trent Park and CSDIC (UK) Reading

  • Falko Bell, ‘One of our Most Valuable Sources of Intelligence’: British Intelligence and the Prisoner of War System in 1944’, Intelligence and National Security, 31/4 (2016), 556-578

  • Helen Fry, The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019)

  • Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi, Noi non sappiamo odiare: L’esercito italiano tra fascism e democrazia (Milan: UTET, 2010)

  • Alex Henry, Everybody to be Armed’: Italian Naval Personnel and the Axis Occupation of Bordeaux, 1940-1943, The British Journal of Military History, 6/3 (2020), 23-41.

  • Sönke Neitzel, and Harald Welzer, Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying (London: Simon & Schuster, 2013)

  • Sönke Neitzel, Tapping Hitler’s Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942-45 (Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2007)

The Sassoons

  • Damian Collins, Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon (William Collins, 2017)

  • Stanley Jackson, The Sassoons (Heinemann, 1989)

  • Cecil Roth, The Sassoon Dynasty (Robert Hale, 1941)

  • Philip Sassoon, The Third Route (William Heinemann, 1929)

  • Peter Stansky, Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil (Yale University Press, 2003)

Wider Reading (WWII)

  • Roderick Bailey, Target Italy: The Secret War Against Mussolini, 1940-1943 (London: Faber & Faber)

  • MRD Foot, SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946 (London: Bodley Head, 2014)

  • Helen Fry, M19: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion (Yale University Press, 2020)

  • Max Hastings, The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 (London: WilliamCollins, 2015)

  • Francis Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations, Volumes One to Three (London: HMSO, 1979-1988)

  • Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949 (London: Penguin, 2011)

  • Derek Nudd, Castaways in Question (Cottage Grove Editions, 2020)

Wider Reading

  • Patrick Campbell, Trent Park - A History (Middlesex University Press, 1998)

  • Stephen Doree, Trent Park: A Short History to 1939 (1990)

  • Adrian Tinniswood, The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars (Jonathan Cape, 2016)

Television, Radio & Podcasts

(Some links above may not be available due to licensing restrictions)