Annotated Bibliography Campion, Garry. The Good Fight: Battle of Britain Propaganda and the Few.

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. In this work, Garry Campion utilizes his background as Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts in the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom to analyze the importance of propaganda to Britains war effort and even its continued existence in this crucial moment in history. The book includes several aides to understanding the presented material such as a chronology of significant events during the Battle of Britain in the opening an appendix of war artists at the end as well as an extensive bibliography. Gates, David. The Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815. New York: Arnold, 1997. David Gates work on the conquests of Napoleon Bonaparte provide an outlook on British tenacity from the outside in. As Deputy Director and Senior Fellow of the Centre for Defence and International Security Studies at the University of Lancaster, Gates gives the twohundred year old series of conflicts an intelligence eye. The work contains maps and speculated populations for Britain in the time period. Included in the book is a bibliographical essay organized by nations involved in the Napoleonic Wars. Levine, Joshua. Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain: In Association with the Imperial War Museum. London: Ebury Press, 2006. This collection of primary source material is a welcome addition to the pursuit of understanding the British mindset in the context of the Second World War. It recounts the personal stories of Britons in their own words and jumps from source to source with some entries lasting nearly a page and some only a few sentences. The gathered entries come from the Imperial War Museums Sound Archive. The compilation includes an index of contributors, an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. Robb, George. British Culture and the First World War. New York: Palgrave, 2002. George Robb tackles the social aspects of the British struggle for victory in the First World War. As Associate professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey, Robb delves into the effects of the war on the citizenry of Britain. He address subject of race, gender, and religion while exploring how the British people identified themselves and others in this tumultuous period. He also writes on the Imperial relations of the colonies with Britain itself in the context of worldwide war. The work includes a sizable notes section and suggested reading. Russell, William Howard, and Nicolas Bentley. Russell's Despatches from the Crimea, 18541856. 1st American ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966.

This primary source is a compilation of accounts given by war correspondent Sir William Howard Russell during Britains involvement in the Crimean War. His first-hand retelling of the collision of forces that helped propel Britain from a European power to global empire is far from simple recorded observation. Russells personality reflects off the language he uses and gives readers a window into his nineteenth-century vantage point. Included in the work is a chronology of the war as well as several illustrations and maps.