Britain and the Second World War: General

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• Angus Calder, The People's War. Cape, 1969.
• John D. Cantwell, The Second World War:  A Guide to Documents in the Public Record Office. PRO Handbook No. 15 (Revised Third Edition), 1998. 187316260X. Very detailed description of the PRO's holdings, but equally useful for its explanations of the organization of wartime government.
• Central Statistical Office, Fighting With Figures: A Statistical Digest of the Second World War. HMSO, 1995. 0116207191. Reprint (with reorganized tables) of the 1951 Statistical Digest. Contains vast amounts of quantitative data on wartime social and (especially) economic change in Britain.
• Winston Churchill, The Second World War.
         Volume I: The Gathering Storm. Houghton Mifflin, 1948. 039541055X.
         Volume II: Their Finest Hour. Houghton Mifflin, 1949. 0395410568.
         Volume III: The Grand Alliance. Houghton Mifflin, 1950. 0395410576.
         Volume IV: The Hinge of Fate. Houghton Mifflin, 1950. 0395410584.
         Volume V: Closing the Ring. Houghton Mifflin, 1951. 0395410592.
         Volume VI: Triumph and Tragedy. Houghton Mifflin, 1953. 0395410606.
  "I agree that we had better leave the past to history, but remember if I live long enough I may be one of the historians."
  Also available as a single-volume abridged Memoirs of the Second World War. Mariner, 1991. 0395599687.
• Mark Donnelly, Britain in the Second World War. Routledge, 2005. 0415174260.
• Juliet Gardiner, Wartime: Britain 1939-1945. Headline, 2004.
• Robert MacKay, Test of War: Inside Britain 1939-1945. Routledge, 1999. 1857286359.
• Arthur Marwick, The Home Front: the British and the Second World War. Thames & Hudson, 1976.
• Henry Pelling, Britain and the Second World War. Franklin Watts, 1970. 0531060012.
• A.J.P. Taylor, English History 1914-1945. Oxford, 1965.