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Jan Ledóchowski, ‘Who Was She? Christine and my father’s unpublished book’, unpublished manuscript (2008)

———, ‘Christine Granville and My Father’s Unpublished Book’, unpublished manuscript (2008)

———, DVD, ‘Discussion with Dominik Horodyñski’ (2007)

Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville: A Biographical Story’, unpublished draft manuscript (nd) [This draft was abandoned in the early 1970s before finalizing and checking all the details of her life in France and England.]

The O’Malley family papers, Ireland

Correspondence between Christine Granville, Andrzej Kowerski, Sir Owen and Kate O’Malley

Correspondence between Sir Owen, Kate O’Malley and Ann Bridge

Kate O’Malley notes on ‘Harrison’s agent, Mme Gi
ż
ycka’

Jane O’Malley, ‘Christina’

Photographs of Christine Granville and Andrzej Kowerski

Maria Pienkowska/Kowerski family papers, Poland

Correspondence between Andrzej Kowerski, Wladimir Ledóchowski and Barbara Pienkowska

Andrzej Kowerski’s birth certificate and war decorations

Christine Granville’s jewellery

Ian Sayer private archive, Spain

Photographs of Andrzej Kowerski (1975)

Recording of Andrzej Kowerski-Kennedy and Harry Seaman, Munich (1976)

Cheque signed by Christine Granville

The Skarbek family papers, Britain

Skarbek genealogy based on Count Jerzy Dunin-Borkowski’s
Almanach Bł
ę
kitny
(
Blue Almanac
)

Family photographs

PRESS, JOURNALS, FILM, TV, RADIO

E
NGLISH-LANGUAGE PRESS

Daily Express

James Gleeson, ‘Stabbed Heroine Told Her Story’ (17.6.1952)

‘Spurned Lover Killed GM Heroine’ (2.7.1952)

Daily Mail

‘Beauty Queen a Secret Agent’ (21.5.1947)

‘Kindness Led to Murder: Christine Granville’s Mistake Ended in Death’ (12.9.1952)

Daily Mirror

‘Drama of Quiet Countess Who Was British Secret Service Agent’ (17.6.52)

‘Heroine dared me three times to kill her’ (2.7.1952)

Evening Standard

Arthur W. Jacobs, ‘The Little Man Who Loved a Heroine’ (11.9.1952)

The Guardian

Winston Churchill, ‘Poland’s and the Allies’ Loss’ (7.6.1943)

‘Chopin’s Birthplace: Centenary Plans for 1949’ (27.10.1947)

‘Death of Polish Countess’ (11.9.1952)

‘Murder of Former Secret Agent’ (12.9.1952)

Annalena McAfee, ‘The trouble I’ve seen’ (16.4.2011)

The Independent

M. R. D. Foot, ‘Michael Lis’ obituary (18.8.1994)

Piers Plowright, ‘Patrick Howarth’ obituary (19.11.2004)

The Leicester Mercury

Jeremy Clay, ‘The Pacifist Who Led A Secret Army’ (2005)

———, ‘The Spy Who Saved Me’ (2005)

LIFE

‘Who was Christine Granville?’, pp. 43–5 (7.7.1952)

The London Gazette

Third Supplement (16.5.1947)

News Chronicle,
Cairo

Victor Azam, ‘Shyest Secret Agent’ (23.5.1947)

Observer Magazine

Daniel Farson, ‘Riddle of the Woman Pimpernel’ (20.10.1974)

Picture Post

Bill Stanley Moss, ‘Christine the Brave’ (13.9.1952)

———, ‘Christine the Brave: Fast Cars to Freedom’ (20.9.1952)

———, ‘Christine the Brave: The Face of a Killer’ (27.9.1952)

———, ‘Christine the Brave: Postscript’ (4.10.1952)

H. M. Edinburgh, letter, ‘The Strange Stewardess’ (4.10.1952)

Rogue,
US magazine

William F. Nolan, ‘Personality: Ian Fleming’ (February 1961)

The Spectator

Patrick Leigh Fermor, ‘The One-Legged Parachutist: Send for a Blacksmith!’ (1.1.1989)

Sunday Dispatch

‘Boy does not know his father is murderer’ (28.9.1952)

Sunday Pictorial

Ross Richards, ‘Girl Spy’ (19.8.1956)

The Telegraph

‘A. Kowerski-Kennedy’, obituary (14.12.1988)

‘Pearl Cornioley’, obituary (26.2.2008)

‘Sophie Moss’, obituary (3.12.2009)

‘Count Andrzej Skarbek’, obituary (10.1.2012)

The Times

Francis Cammaerts, ‘Patrick O’Regan’, obituary (14.3.1961)

‘Andrew Kennedy: undercover operations in wartime Eastern Europe’, obituary (15.12.1988)

‘Michael Lis’, obituary (16.8.1994)

Ray Kipling, letter, ‘Lives Remembered’ (15.12.2004)

‘Francis Cammaerts’, obituary (6.7.2006)

Unknown paper

Bill Stanley Moss, ‘What Makes a First-Class Secret Agent’ (
c.
1952)

E
NGLISH-LANGUAGE JOURNALS

Chambers’s Journal

Maurice Buckmaster, ‘All Communications Will be Cut’ (1946–7, republished online by Steven Kippax, 2011)

East European Quarterly

Józef Kasparek, ‘Poland’s 1938 Covert Operations in Ruthenia’, vol. XXIII, no. 3, pp. 365–73 (1989)

History Today

Adam Zamoyski, ‘The Underground Factory: Poland in 1939–45’ (1974)

The Polish Review

Christopher Kasparek, ‘Krystyna Skarbek: Re-viewing Britain’s legendary Polish agent’, XLIX, no 3, pp. 945–53 (2004)

———, ‘Letters to the Editor’ L, no 2 (2005), p. 254

Reform Review,
journal of the Reform Club

Peter Hill, ‘Wartime espionage heroine’s murder … and the condemned man’s apology to the Club’ (Summer 2010)

P
OLISH PRESS

Beauty
(Polish magazine)

Krzysztof Dubinski, ‘Like Dynamite’ (nd)

Esensja
magazine

Sebastian Chosinski, ‘Daughter of Count Skarbek’ (10.12.2007)

Express Poranny
(
Morning Express
)

‘Every Candidate: Miss Polonia 1930’ (January 1930)

Kurjer Warszawski

notice of Jerzy Skarbek’s death (12.12.1930)

Newsweek Poland

Dariusz Baliszewski, ‘The Mystery of Dr Z: Who was Stefan Witkowski?’ (no date)

Polish Week

Tadeusz Stachowski, ‘This would make a great movie!’ (16.12.2000)

———, Mieczysława Wazacz, ‘Heroes of Dangerous Adventures’ (30.12.2000)

Publicystyka

Zbigniew Cyran, ‘Zakopanski Bristol – znany I nieznany’ (‘Bristol Zakopane – the known and unknown’) (February 2010)

Rzeczpospolita

Tomasz Lenczewski, ‘
Mariaze herbów i kont
’ (‘The Marriage of Coats of Arms and Accounts’), 22 VII (2008)

Tydzien Polski
(
Polish Week
)

Henryk Koaratynski, Mieczysława Wazacz interview (26.2.2005)

Unknown publication

Karol Zbyszewski, ‘Slawna Agentka’ (Famous Agent) (18.10.1975)

B
RITISH FILM
/TV/
RADIO

BBC Radio Four,
Women’s Hour,
Madeleine Masson interview (29.12.2004)

Darlow Smithson Productions/Channel Four/Martyn Cox,
The Real Charlotte Grays
(2008), Francis Cammaerts interview

Martyn Cox/
Our Secret War
interviews, Paddy Sproule and Leslie Fernandez

RAF Film Production Unit,
Now it Can Be Told
(1946)

Mieczysława Wazacz (dir.),
No Ordinary Countess
(2010)

Yesterday Channel,
The Secret War: Christine Granville, Polish Spy,
Francis Cammaerts interview (27.6.2011)

F
RENCH FILM

Association pour des Etudes sur la Résistance Intérieure,
La Résistance dans la Drôme – le Vercors
(2007)

Reymond Tonneau (dir.),
Vercors: Pays de la Liberté
(
Vercors: Land of Liberty
) (nd)

Jean-Paul le Chanois (dir.),
Au Coeur de l’Orage
(
At The Heart of the Storm
) (1948)

Laurent Lutaud (dir.),
Le Plateau Déchiré: Maquis de Vercors
(
The Torn Plateau
) (nd)

P
OLISH FILM

Andrzej Wajda,
Kanal
(1957)

MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS

(Published and unpublished)

B
RITISH

Julian Amery,
Approach March: a venture in autobiography
(1973)

Ann Bridge,
Facts and Fictions
(1968)

Maurice Buckmaster,
Specially Employed: The Story of British Aid to French Patriots of the Resistance
(1952)

Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart,
Happy Odyssey: The Memoirs of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO
(1950)

Marek Celt,
By Parachute to Warsaw
(1945)

Winston Churchill,
The Second World War:
III,
The Grand Alliance
(1956)

Ben Cowburn,
No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France
(2009)

Aidan Crawley,
Leap Before You Look: A Memoir
(1988)

Basil Davidson,
Special Operations Europe: Scenes from the Anti-Nazi War
(1980)

Sefton Delmer,
Black Boomerang: An Autobiography,
vol. 2 (1962)

Douglas Dodds-Parker,
Setting Europe Ablaze: Some Account of Ungentlemanly Warfare
(1983)

Daphne Fielding,
The Nearest Way Home
(1970)

Xan Fielding,
Hide and Seek: The Story of a War-Time Agent
(1954)

Jerzy Gizycki, ‘The Winding Trail’, unpublished memoir (nd)

Witold Gombrowicz,
Polish Memories
(2004)

Patrick Howarth (ed.),
Special Operations
(1955)

Michael Joseph,
Charles: The Story of a Friendship
(1943)

Peter Kemp,
No Colours or Crest
(1958)

Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville: A Biographical Story’, draft manuscript (nd)

———,
The Diary Abandoned in Ankara
(1990)

Leo Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War 1941–1945
(2000)

Zbigniew Mieczkowski,
Horizons: Reflections of a Polish Émigré
(2008)

———, ‘Poland in the Battle for Freedom – World War II’ (Lecture, Polish Embassy, Paris, 2008)

George Millar,
Maquis
(1946)

Nigel Nicholson (ed.),
Harold Nicholson: Diaries and Letters 1930–39
(1966)

Sir Owen O’Malley,
The Phantom Caravan
(1954)

———,
Katyn: Despatches of Sir Owen O’Malley to the British Government, etc.
(1972)

Margaret Pawley,
In Obedience to Instructions
(1999)

Laura Pope, ‘Remembering Richard’, unpublished memoir (2005)

Ivor Porter,
Operation Autonomous: With SOE in Wartime Romania
(1989)

Bickham Sweet-Escott,
Baker Street Irregular
(1965)

Wilfred Thesiger,
The Life of My Choice
(1987)

Lord Vansittart,
The Mist Procession: The Autobiography of Lord Vansittart
(1958)

Peter Wilkinson,
Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative
(2002)

F
RENCH
*

Jeanne Barbier,
Here, once, there was a French village
(2005)

L’Abbé Fernand Gagnol,
The Martyrs of Vercors
(nd)

Daniel Huillier,
Vercors: The Resistance, A teenager’s memories
(2001)

Paul Jansen,
Les Photos de Macrel Jansen, Reporter au Maquis
(nd)

P
OLISH

Tadeusz Breza,
Nelly: About Her Friends and Herself
(1983)

———,
Memories
(2002)

Regina Domañska,
Pawiak: Gestapo Prison, Chronicle 1939–1944
(1978)

Arkardy Fiedler,
The Women of My Youth
(1989)

Józef Kasparek,
The Carpathian Bridge: a Covert Polish Intelligence Operation
(1992)

Kazimierz Leski,
A Checkered Life: Memoirs of a Home Army Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Officer
(1995)

Stanisław Mackiewicz,
Two Ladies Die After Talking to Me
(1972)

Rafał Malczewski,
Navel of the World: Memories of Zakopane
(2003)

Anna Potocka,
Through Hills and Valleys …
(2011)

SECONDARY SOURCE PUBLICATIONS

B
RITISH

Alan Allport,
Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War
(2009)

Christopher Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5
(2009)

Roderick Bailey,
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War
(2008)

Jeffrey Bines,
Operation Freston: The Military Mission to Poland, 1944
(1999)

———,
The Polish Country Section of the SOE 1940–46: A British Perspective
(2008)

Marcus Binney,
The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War
(2002)

Maurice Buckmaster,
They Fought Alone: The Story of British Agents in France
(1958)

E. H. Cookridge,
They Came from the Sky
(1976)

Artemis Cooper,
Cairo in the War, 1939–1945
(1989)

Norman Davies,
God’s Playground: A History of Poland in Two Volumes,
vol. 2,
1979 to the Present
(1981)

———,
Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw
(2004)

Richard Deacon (Donald McCormick),
A History of the British Secret Service
(1980)

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