Required and Recommended Reading

Massie, Robert K.

Peter the Great
Peter on the White Sea

Shirer, William

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Roads to Moscow, Last day of June.., PostWW2

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

The Gulag Archipelago
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Tennyson, Alfred

The Revenge
Lord Grenville

Vonnegut, Kurt

Sirens of Titan
Sirens of Titan

Erica Cheetham

The Centuries of Nostradamus
Nostradamus

James Randi

The Mask of Nostradamus
Nostradamus

Sir Reginald Bacon

The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverston
Manuscript, Old Admirals

Jan Morris

Fisher's Face
Manuscript, Old Admirals

Slavenka Drakulic

How we survived communism and even laughed
Balkan Express

Karl J. Walde

Guderian
Roads to Moscow

Martin Gilbert

Churchill, a Life
Manuscript, Post WWII Blues

Churchill

A History Of The English Speaking Peoples
Manuscript, Post WWII Blues

Churchill

6 volume history of WWII?
Manuscript, Post WWII Blues

Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Silmarillion
...and the sun has the moon in his eye is from the Silmarillion
... Al thanks Tolkien for sending Frodo and Sam on their journey (back cover of...)

Carroll, Lewis

Through the Looking Glass Trespasser was inspired by TtLG - specifically "shadow of the sundial on the hedge
(Or was it from Jabberwocky). ... the wabe is the grass around a sundial.
Al says many thanks to Dodgson, which was Carroll's real name, for inventing Alice

Mayle, Peter

Provence

Awdry

Thomas the Tank Engine (and others in the series)
..children's books alluded to in Trains

The Arms Of Krupp

an excellent book on Germany before and during WWII

Lear

Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round The World
is where Al got the name for his daughter Violet.

Bell, Elizabeth

Sisters of the Wind: Voices of Early Women Aviators
Flying Sorcery -Amy Johnson

McLean, Alistair

H.M.S. Ulysses Murmansk Run

Guderian, Hans

Panzer Leader
Where Are They Now was based on this book

Foss, Christopher

Jane's Illustrated Guide to Tanks and Airplanes of World War II

Peake, Mervyn

Gormenghast trilogy

Merlin (The Scottish Warrior Poets) works

Merlin's Time

Stewart, Mary

The Crystal Cave
My Enemies Have Sweet Voices (refers to Merlin)

The Once and Future King

My Enemies Have Sweet Voices (refers to Merlin)

any textbook on modern British history

Post-World War II Blues

Lawrence, D. H.

Lady Chatterly's Lover
Trespasser

Tennyson

(or other knightly poetry)
A Long Way Down from Stephanie

Peter The Great (Czar Peter I of Russia) autobiography?

Peter On The White Sea

Sage

OSS colonel Jerry Sage
...typical Russian comrade-soldier and that particularly cold winter when the Germans fell back...
Roads to Moscow

Baker, Jean Claude

The Hungry Heart
life of his famous mother, Josephine Baker

Baker, Josephine & Jo Bouillon

Josephine
Josephine Baker

Ross, Phyllis

Jazz Cleopatra

Markham, Beryl (contemporary of Amy Johnson)

West with the Night
Flying Sorcery

Holden, Henry M. & Captain Lori Griffeth

Ladybirds, the untold story of women pilots is America
Flying Sorcery

Kafka, Franz

The Metamorphosis
The Hippopotamus song is based loosely on this short story

Campbell, David

The Crystal Desert
Account of human discovery and exploration of Antarctica

Mayle, Peter

A Year in Provence
Al recommends it on a concert tape

Camus

The Outsider

Sartre

Reprieve (story, essay or book?)

Gardiner

Grendel

Ionesco, Eugene

Rhinoceros
Hipposong

Film and other

PBS series on Peter the Great

based on Massie's book. available on VT

A Man for All Seasons

The "Nostradamus" film that just came out?

Both PBS documentaries on Josephine Baker

TV documentary "Shoah"... led Al to write "Trains"

Mona Lisa" with Bob Hoskins

Bad Reputation was loosely based on this film

Hester Street

film about life among immigrants in 1890's New York (based, Haliwell says, on the story 'Yeki' by Abraham Cahan).

Casablanca

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett ???