Bourne, Stephen: The Motherland Calls: Britain’s Black Servicemen & Women 1939–45. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2012. It’s difficult to find accessible studies on this subject, but Bourne’s book contains interesting personal accounts as well as a good list of films and television documentaries about black servicemen in Britain (see pages 134–135).

Chappell, Connery. Island of Barbed Wire: Internment on the Isle of Man in World War Two. London: Robert Hale, 1984. This book gives a good overview of the British internment of aliens during the war.

Nesbit, Roy Conyers and Georges van Acker. The Flight of Rudolf Hess: Myths and Reality. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999. Hess was an enigmatic character who tried, and failed, to change the course of the war in an attempt to personally broker a peace between Britain and Germany.

Panton, Alastair and Victoria Panton Bacon. Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot’s Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France. London: Penguin Books, 2018 (2014). This autobiographical account of flying Bristol Blenheims in wartime is fabulously readable and very moving.

A Handful of Interesting Links:

“Caribbean Aircrew in the RAF during WW2” contains a record of West Indians who joined the Royal Air Force during World War II, with photographs and lists of documentaries and news stories: www.caribbeanaircrew-ww2.com

“Was the RAF Especially Receptive to Black Servicemen in World War Two?” is an edited transcript of a podcast on Dan Snow’s History Hit entitled “Pilots of the Caribbean with Peter Devitt,” first broadcast on 24 June 2018: https://www.historyhit.com/was-the-raf-especially-receptive-to-black-servicemen-in-world-war-two/

Stephen Bourne has written a detailed obituary for Lilian Bader (1918–2015), one of the first black women to serve in Britain’s armed forces: www.voice-online.co.uk/article/obituary-war-hero-lilian-bader-1918-2015

This web page from the Battle of Britain London Monument is a tribute to Herbert Capstick, the only Jamaican to fly in the Battle of Britain: http://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Capstick.htm

“Disaster at Balham Tube Station” is an account of the bombing raid that flooded the London Underground on 14 October 1940, with iconic photographs of the London bus that fell into the bomb crater: http://ww2today.com/14th-october-1940-disaster-at-balham-tube-station

The Library and Archive Service on the Isle of Man provides an online guide to their collection concerning the island’s role in the internment of aliens during World War II: https://manxnationalheritage.im/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/WWII-Internment-Sheet-Library-and-Archive-Service-Digital.pdf

This “Individual History” written by Andrew Simpson is a Royal Air Force Museum document describing the interception of a Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber in May 1943. The aircraft described has been in the collection of the RAF Museum in Cosford since 2017 (A/C Serial No. W/NR. 360043, Section 2B): https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/78-AF-953-Junkers-Ju88-R1.pdf

The Aircrew Remembered website contains an account of Heinrich (Herbert) Schmitt’s defection to the UK with his Junkers 88 aircrew: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/schmid-herbert-defection.html