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Only works cited in the text are listed. Official documents

Britain: The National Archives

France: Archives nationales: de Gaulle, president de la republique, 5 AG 1 (fonds Solferino)

Ministère des Affaires Etrangères

Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances

Assemblee nationale, commission des affaires etrangeres, IV–V Republics Private papers Britain

Sir Pierson Dixon (private) Bodleian Library, Oxford

Sir Patrick Reilly unpublished memoir

Harold Macmillan Archive

George Brown

Harold Wilson

Paul Gore-Booth

Conservative Party Archive

Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne

Walter Monckton Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge

Lord Gladwyn

Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen

Selwyn Lloyd

William Haley

Duncan Sandys

Christopher Soames

Edwin Plowden

Alfred Duff Cooper British Library of Political and Economic Science

Alastair Hetherington

Anthony Crosland

Violet Rhys-Williams

James Meade Hoover Institution Archives

Raymond Aron

Victor Hoo

Alexandre Kojève

Jacques Leprette

Malcolm Muggeridge

John Vaizey Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) Archives University of Leeds, Special Collection

Edward Boyle Papers France L’office universitaire de recherche socialiste (L’OURS)

Guy Mollet Archives nationales

Christian Pineau FNSP

Maurice Couve de Murville

Alexandre Parodi

Michel Debre

Wilfrid Baumgartner Published documents

Documents on British Policy Overseas

Documents Diplomatiques Français

Foreign Relations of the United States

Britain’s Entry into the European Community: Report on the Negotiations of 1970–1972 by Sir Con O’Neill, ed., Sir David Hannay, 2000

British Documents on the End of Empire (HMSO, 1992–2000) Oral history

British Diplomatic Oral History Programme (BDOHP)

EU Oral History Archives: Voices on Europe programme Memoirs and diaries

Alphand, H., L’Etonnement d’être (1977)

Ball, S., The Headlam Diaries, 1935–1951 (1999)

Baeyens, J., Au bout du Quai (1975)

Benn, T., Out of the Wilderness: diaries, 1963–7 (1987)

Benn, T., Office Without Power: Diaries, 1968–72 (1988)

Benn, T., Against the Tide: Diaries, 1973–6 (1989)

Beauvoir, S.

Berard, A., Un ambassadeur se souvient, I (1976)

Bloch, M., Strange Defeat (1968)

Bohlen, Charles E., Witness to History (1973)

Brandt, W., My Life in Politics (1993)

Brown, G., In My Way (1971)

Cairncross, A.

Cairncross, A., The Wilson Years: A Treasury Diary (1997)

Calvocoressi, P., Threading My Way (1994)

Camus, A., Journaux de voyage (1978)

Camus, A., Notebooks 1942–1951 (1966)

Carey, J., The Unexpected Professor (2014)

Castle, B., The Castle Diaries, 1964–70 (1984)

Catterall, P. (ed.), The Macmillan Diaries I: The Cabinet Years 1950–57 (2003)

Catterall, P. (ed.), The Macmillan Diaries II: Prime Minister and After 1957–1966 (2011)

Chalfont, A., The Shadow of My Hand (2000)

Chambon, A., Que font donc ces diplomates? (1983)

Chauvel, J., Commentaire, 3 vols (1971–3)

Clark, K., The Other Half (1977)

Colville, J., Fringes of Power, Downing Street Diaries, 2 (1987)

Cooper, A. Duff, Old Men Forget (1954)

Cox, G., See It Happen (1983)

Crossman, R., Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, 3, 1968–70 (1975)

Dalton, H., High Tide and After (1962)

Day, R., Grand Inquisitor (1989)

Deniau, J.-F., Memoires de 7 Vies, II (1997)

Denman, R., The Mandarin’s Tale (2002)

Dilks, D. (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan (1972)

Dixon, P. (ed.), Double Diploma (1968)

Dover, K., Marginal Comment (1994)

Duff Cooper Diaries, 1915–1951, John Julius Norwich (ed.) (2005)

Dumaine, J., Quai d’Orsay (1955)

Eden, A., Memoirs: The Reckoning (1965)

Enright, D.J., Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor (1969)

Evans, H., Downing Street Diary (1981)

Foccart, J., Journal de l’Elysee, I, 1965–1967 (1997)

Foot, M.R.D., Memories of an SOE Historian (2008)

Froment-Meurice, H., Vu du Quai (1998)

Gaulle, C. de., The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle (1998)

Gaulle, P. de., De Gaulle, Mon Père (2003)

Gladwyn, Lord, The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn (1972)

Gore-Booth, P., With Great Truth and Respect (1974)

Guinness, A., My Name Escapes Me (1996)

Guinness, B., Personal Patchwork (1987)

Guehenno, J., Voyages (1952)

Guehenno, J., Journal des annees noires (1947)

Haines, J., The Politics of Power (1977)

Halsey, A.H., No Discouragement: An Autobiography (1996)

Hannay, D., Britain’s Quest for a Role: a diplomatic memoir (2012)

Hartley, A., A State of England (1963)

Harvey, J., The War Diary of Oliver Harvey (1978)

Harrison, J.F.C., Scholarship Boy (1995)

Hayter, W., A Double Life (1974)

Healey, D., The Times of My Life (1989)

Heath, E., The Course of My Life (1998)

Henderson, N., Mandarin: diaries (1994)

Hetherington, A., Guardian Years (1981)

Hoggart, R., An Imagined Life, 3, (1992)

Holroyd, M., Basil Street Blues (2000)

Horne, A., But What Do You Actually Do? (2011)

Hurd, D., An End to Promises (1979)

Hurd, D., Memoirs (2003)

Jay, D., Change and Fortune (1980)

Jebb, M., The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn (1995)

Jenkins, R., A Life at the Centre (1991)

Jobert, M., Memoires d’avenir (1974)

King, C., The Cecil King Diary, 1965–70 (1972)

Kirkpatrick, I., The Inner Circle (1959)

Kissinger, H., The White House Years (1979)

Lacey, N., A Life of H.A.L.

Lessing, Doris, A Small Personal Voice (1974)

Levi-Strauss, C., Tristes tropiques (1973)

Lloyd, S., Suez, 1956 (1978)

Longford, E., The Pebbled Shore (1986)

Macmillan, H., Tides of Fortune, 1945–55 (1969)

Macmillan, H., Riding the storm, 1956–9 (1971)

Macmillan, H., Pointing the Way, 1959–61 (1972)

Macmillan, H., At the End of the Day, 1961–3 (1974)

Magee, B., Growing up in a war (2007)

Maitland, D., Diverse Times, Sundry Places (1996)

Mallaby, G., From My Level (1965)

Massigli, R., Une Comedie des Erreurs (1978)

Mauriac, C., The Other de Gaulle: diaries 1944–54 (1973)

Mauriac, F., Memoires politiques (1967)

Mauriac, J., Le General et le journaliste (2008)

Mayhew, C., Time to Explain (1987)

Miller, A., Timebends: A Life (1987)

Monnet, J., Memoirs (1978)

Moorehead, C. (ed.), Freya Stark Letters, vol. 7 (1974)

Mott-Radclyffe, C., Foreign Body in the Eye (1975)

Mount, F., Cold Cream (2008)

Muir, E., An Autobiography (1954)

Murville, Couve de, Maurice Une politique etrangère (1971)

Nicolson, N. (ed.), Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1945–1962 (1968)

Nora, P. (ed.), Vincent Auriol, Journal du septennat 1947–1954 (1970–8)

Ollard, R., Diaries of A.L. Rowse, I (2003)

Ozouf, M., Composition française, retour sur une enfance bretonne (2009)

Peyrefitte, A., C’Etait De Gaulle, I (1994)

Parrott, C., The Serpent and the Nightingale (1977)

Pimlott, B. (ed.), The Political Diary of Hugh Dalton, 1918–40, 1945–60 (1986)

Pineau, C., La Simple Verite, 1940–1945 (1960)

Pineau, C., Suez 1956 (1976)

Plowden, E., An Industrialist in the Treasury (1989)

Poncet, François A., Souvenirs d’une ambassade à Berlin (1946)

Pottle, M., Daring to Hope: Diaries of Violet Bonham Carter (2000)

Reynaud, P., La France à sauve l’Europe, I (1947)

Ritchie, C., Diplomatic Passport (1981)

Roll, E., Crowded Hours (1985)

Roy, R. and Young J.W. (eds), Ambassador to Sixties London: Diaries of David Bruce (2009)

Rusk, D., As I Saw it (1990)

Servan Schreiber, J., Lieutenant in Algeria (1958)

Shuckburgh, E., Descent to Suez: Diaries 1951–56 (1986)

Soutou, J.-M., Un Diplomate engage (2011)

Stapleton, J., Sir Arthur Bryant and National History in Twentieth Century Britain (2005)

Stewart, M., Life and Labour (1980)

Strang, Lord., At Home and Abroad (1956)

Taylor, A.J.P., A Personal History (1983)

Teitgen, P.-H., Faites entrer le temoin suivant (1988)

Toynbee, A., Experiences (1969)

Tricot, B., Memoires (1994)

Waldegrave, W., A Different Kind of Weather (2015)

Warner, G., In the Midst of Events: Foreign Office Diaries and Papers of Kenneth G.

Warnock, M., A Memoir: People and Places (2000)

Werth, A., France, 1940–1955 (1957)

Williams, M., Inside Number 10 (1982)

Wilson, H., The Labour Government, 1964–1970 (1971)

Williams, P.M. (ed.), The Diary of Hugh Gaitskell (1983)

Woodhouse, C.M., Something Ventured (1982)

Woolf, L., Downhill All The Way (1967)

Wright, P., Spycatcher (1987) Secondary works

Agulhon, M., The French Republic 1879–1992 (1993)

Anderson, P., English Questions (1992)

The New Old World (2009)

Andrew, C., The Sword and the Shield (2000)

Barclay, R., Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office (1975)

Barre, J.-L., Devenir de Gaulle, 1939–1943 (2003)

Beck, P.J., Using History, Making British Policy (2006)

Becker, J. and Knipping, F. (eds), Power in Europe? France, Great Britain, Germany and Italy in a Post-war World, 1945–50 (1986)

Beckett, F., Macmillan (2006)

Beevor, A. and Cooper, A., Paris after the Liberation (1994)

Beloff, N., The General Says No: Britain’s exclusion from Europe (1963)

Bell, P.M.H., France and Britain 1040–1994 (1997)

Bezias, J.-R., Georges Bidault et la politique etrangère de la France (2006)

Bew, J., Citizen Clem, a biography of Attlee (2016)

Bachelier, C. (ed.), Raymond Aron: Chroniques de Guerre (1990)

Blackstone T. and Plowden W., Inside the Think Tank: Advising the Cabinet 1971–83 (1988)

Blackwell, M., Clinging to Grandeur: British Attitudes and Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of the Second World War (1993)

Bossuat, G., Faire L’Europe sans Defaire la France (2005)

L’Europe des Français 1943–1959 (1996)

Briggs, A., The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, IV (1995)

Broad, R. (ed.), Britain and Europe: ICBH Witness Seminar Programme (2002)

Bullock, A., Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945–51 (1983)

Buruma, I., Voltaire’s Coconuts (1999)

Cable, J., The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina (1986)

Campbell, J., Roy Jenkins (2014)

Campbell, J., Edward Heath: a biography (1993)

Chalaby, J.K., The De Gaulle Presidency and the Media (2002)

Charlton, M., The Price of Victory (1983)

Chuter, D., Humanity’s Soldier (1996)

Clarke, P., Hope and Glory: Britain 1900–1990 (1996)

Clayman, S.

Cobb, M., Eleven Days in August (2013)

Colley, L., Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837 (1996)

Craig, G.A. and Loewenheim, F.L. (eds), The Diplomats, 1939–1979 (1994)

Creswell, M., A Question of Balance : how France and the United States created Cold War Europe (2006)

Crouzet, F., Britain Ascendant: Comparative Studies in Franco-British Economic History (1990)

Daddow, O. J. (ed.), Harold Wilson and European Integration (2003)

Dalloz, J., Georges Bidault (1992)

Deighton, A. (ed.), Building Postwar Europe (1995)

Dell, E., The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe (1995)

Denman, R., Missed Chances: Britain and Europe in the Twentieth Century (1996)

Destremau, B., Quai d’Orsay derrière la façade (1994)

Dickie, J., Inside the Foreign Office (1992)

Dilks, D., Rights, Wrongs and Rivalries (1996)

Dillon, R., History on British Television (2010)

Dixon, P., Double Diploma: the life of Sir Pierson Dixon: don and diplomat (1968)

Dockrill, M., and Young, J.W. (eds), British Foreign Policy 1945–56 (1989)

Donaldson, F., The British Council: The First 50 Years (1984)

Driver, C., The Disarmers (1964)

Dumoulin, M. (ed.), Wartime Plans for Postwar Europe (1995)

(ed.), The European Commission 1958–1972: History and Memories (2007)

Duroselle, J.-B., La Decadence, 1932–1939 (1979)

Ellul, J., Propaganda: the formation of attitudes (1969)

Fauvet, J., La IV Republique (1959)

Ferguson, N., Kissinger, The Idealist (2015)

Foot, M., Aneurin Bevan: a biography, II (1973)

Free, Lloyd A. (ed.), French Motivations in the Suez Crisis (1956)

Gallup, G.H. (ed.), The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls, France, I (1977)

Gilbert, M., Winston Churchill, VII (1989)

Gillingham, J.R., Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe 1945–1955 (1991)

Goldman, L., The Life of R.H. Tawney (2013)

Gowing, M., Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945–1952, I, Policy Making (1974)

Greenwood, S., The Alternative Alliance: Anglo-French relations before the coming of NATO, 1944–48 (1996)

Greenwood, S., Titan at the Foreign Office: Gladwyn Jebb and the shaping of the modern world (2008)

Griset, P., Georges Pompidou et la modernite (2006)

Grosser, A., La IV Republique et sa politique exterieure (1961)

Guieu, J.-M, Sanderson, C., et al., L’Historien et les relations internationales: Autour de Robert Frank (2012)

Haas, E.B., The Uniting of Europe (1958)

Hardy, H.

Harris, R., Good and Faithful Servant (1991)

Harrison, B., Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970 (2009)

Harrison, E., The Young Kim Philby (2012)

Harrison, M. and Hayward, J., (eds), De Gaulle to Mitterand (1993)

Haslam, J., The Vices of Integrity: E.H. Carr 1892–1982 (1999)

Hayter, W., The Diplomacy of the Great Powers (1960)

Hazareesingh, S., Political Tradition in Modern France (1994)

Hecht, G., The Radiance of France (1998)

Henderson, The Private Office (1984)

Hennessy, P., The Prime Minister (2001)

Hennessy, P., The Hidden Wiring (1996)

Hennessy, P., Muddling Through (1997)

Hennessy, P., Whitehall (1990)

Hennessy, P., Distilling the Frenzy (2013)

Hines-Davenport, R., An English Affair (2013)

Hitchcock, W.I., France Restored (1998)

Hoffmann, S. (ed.), France: Change and Tradition (1963)

Hoggart, R., The Uses of Literacy (1957)

Holland, R., The Pursuit of Greatness: Britain and the World Role (1992)

Horne, A., Macmillan, Vols I (1894–1956); II (1957–1986) (1988–89)

Huizinga, J.H., Confessions of a European in England (1958)

James, R. Rhodes, Anthony Eden (1986)

Jenks, J., British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War (2006)

Jones, C.S., A Dangerous Liaison: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (2008)

Jowell, R. and Hoinville, G. (eds), Britain into Europe: public opinion and the EEC, 1961–75 (1976)

Judt, T., Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945 (2005)

Kelly, M., The Cultural and Intellectual Rebuilding of France after the Second World War (2004)

Kent, J., British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944–49 (1994)

Kirkham, P., Thomas, D. (eds), War Culture (1995)

Kitzinger, U., The Second Try: Labour and the EEC (1968)

Diplomacy and Persuasion: how Britain joined the Common Market (1973)

Knapp, A. (ed.) The Uncertain Foundation: France at the Liberation 1944–47 (2007)

Kolodziej, E.A., Making and Marketing Arms (1987)

Kuhn, R., The Media in France (1995)

Kuisel, R.F., Capitalism and the State in Modern France (1981)

Kyle, K., Suez (1991)

Lacouture, J., De Gaulle: The Ruler (1991)

Lafon, F., Guy Mollet: itineraire d’un socialiste controverse (1905–1975) (2006)

Larkin, M., France since the Popular Front (1988)

Lawford, V., Bound for Diplomacy (1963)

Lebovics, H., Mona Lisa’s Escort (1999)

Ledwidge, B., De Gaulle (1982)

Lord, C., British Entry to the European Community under the Heath Government of 1970–4 (1993)

Lord, C., Absent at the creation: Britain and the formation of the European Community 1950–2 (1996)

Louis, Wm. R. (ed.), Adventures with Britannia (1995)

Lowe, R., The Official History of the British Civil Service, I (2011)

Ludlow, Piers N., Dealing with Britain: and the first UK application to the EEC (1997)

Ludlow, Piers N., The European Community and the crises of the 1960s (2006)

Luthy, H., The State of France: a study of contemporary France (1955)

Lyttelton, O., The Memoirs of Lord Chandos (1962)

McCourt, D. M., Britain and World Power since 1945: constructing a nation’s role in international politics (2014)

McDermott, G., The Eden Legacy and the decline of British diplomacy (1969)

McDonald, I., The history of The Times : struggles in war and peace, vol. 5 (1984)

McKenzie, B.A., Remaking France: Americanization, public diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan (2005)

McManus, M., Edward Heath: A Singular Life (2016)

Mallaby, G., Each in his Office (1972)

Mandler, P., The English National Character (2006)

Mangold, P., The Almost Impossible Ally (2006)

Marquand, D., The Unprincipled Society (1988)

Marquand, D., Britain since 1918: the strange career of British democracy (2008)

Marwick, A., Class: Image and Reality in Britain, France and the USA since 1930 (1980)

Marwick, A. (ed.), Total War and Social Change (1988)

Mauriac, F., De Gaulle (1966)

Mendras, H. and Cole, A., Social Change in Modern France (1991)

Michaud, J.-C., Alain Peyrefitte (2002)

Moraze, C., The French and the Republic (1958)

Morgan, K., Britain since 1945:The People’s Peace (1990)

Morin, E., Commune en France: la metamorphose de Plozevet (1968)

Noiriel, G., Workers in French Society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1990)

Nolfo, Di, E. (ed.), Power in Europe? II. Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy and The origins of the EEC, 1952–7 (1992)

Nord, P., France’s New Deal (2010)

Nouzille, V., Des Secrets Si Bien Gardes (2009)

Nutting, A., Europe Will Not Wait (1960)

Nye, J.S., Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (2005)

Offer, A., The Challenge of Affluence (2006)

Ollard, R., A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L. Rowse (1999)

Ory, P., La culture comme aventure (2008)

Overy, R., The Morbid Age: Britain between the wars (2009)

Pagedas, C.A., Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem (2000)

Pastor-Castro, R. and Young, J.W. (eds), The Paris Embassy (2013)

Paterson, P., Tired and Emotional: The Life of Lord George Brown (1993)

Perrier, J., Michel Debre (2010)

Pimlott, B., The Queen (1996)

Poidevin, R., Robert Schuman (1986)

Purcell, H., A Very Private Celebrity: The Nine Lives of John Freeman (2015)

Reynolds, D., Britannia Overruled (2000)

Roberts, A., The Storm of War (2010)

Rogers, B., A.J. Ayer: A Life (1999)

Ross, K., Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: decolonization and the reordering of French Culture (1995)

Rothwell, V.H., Britain and the Cold War (1982)

Roussel, E., Charles de Gaulle (2002)

Sampson, A., Anatomy of Britain (1962)

Sanderson C., Perfide Albion? L’affaire Soames et les arcanes de la diplomatie britannique (2012)

Sanderson C., L’Impossible Alliance? France, Grande-Bretagne et defense de l’Europe (2003)

Saville, J., The Politics of Continuity (1993)

Shaw, T., Eden, Suez, and the Mass Media (1996)

Sheehan, J.J., Where have all the soldiers gone (2008)

Shennan, A., Rethinking France (1997)

Siegfried, A., L’Ame des Peuples (1950)

Sisman, A., A.J.P. Taylor: A Biography (1994)

Sisson, C.H., The Spirit of British Administration and Some European Comparisons (1959)

Skidelsky, R., John Maynard Keynes, 3, Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946 (2000)

Smouts, M.-C., La France à l’ONU (1980)

Tachin, A., Amie et Rivale: La Grande-Bretagne dans l’imaginaire français à l’epoque gaullienne (2009)

Thomas, H. (ed.), Crisis in the Civil Service (1968)

Thompson, E.P and T.J., There is a spirit in Europe: a memoir of Frank Thompson (1947)

Thompson, E.P., Beyond the Frontier: the politics of a failed mission (1997)

Thompson, E.P., The Making of the English Working Class (1963)

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Toulemon, R., La construction europeenne (1994)

Tratt, J., The Macmillan Government and Europe (1996)

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(ed.), Mai 1945: La Victoire en Europe (1985)

Vigezzi, B., The British Committee on the Theory of International Politics 1954–1985: The Rediscovery of History (2005)

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Young, H., This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (1999)

Young, J.W. (ed.), The Foreign Policy of Churchill’s Peacetime Administration, 1951–5 (1988)

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