Official Publications

WO "Infantry Training. Training and War" August 1937, available here

WO "Infantry Section Leading" December 1938, available here

Army Training Memorandum, January 1940 to May 1945 Parts 28 to 52 The Naval and Military Press in association with the Royal Armouries 2008

WO "Small Arms Training Vol 1 Pamphlet 2 Application of Fire" June 1942 (available here)

WO "Small Arms Training Vol. 1 Pamphlet 4 The Light Machine Gun" August 1942 (available here)

WO “The Instructor’s Handbook on Fieldcraft and Battle Drill” October 1942 (Partizan Press Reprint)

WO "Infantry Training Part 1: The Infantry Battalion" January 1944, available here

WO “Infantry Training Part VIII: Fieldcraft, Battle Drill, Section and Platoon Tactics” March 1944, available here

WO Military Training Pamphlet No.33 "Training in Fieldcraft and Elementary Tactics" March 1940

WO Military Training Pamphlet No.63 “The Cooperation of Tanks with Infantry Divisions” May 1944 (Partizan Press Reprint)

Official Histories

Stacy, C.P. “Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War Volume II The Victory Campaign ” Queen’s Printer 1960

Stacy, C.P. "Arms, Men and Governments. The War Policies of Canada, 1939 - 1945" Queen's Printer 1970

Ellis, L.F. “Victory in the West. Volume 1 The Battle of Normandy” HMSO 1962

Personal Accounts and Memoirs

Beale, Peter "Tank Tracks. 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment at War 1940-45" Budding Books 1997

Blackburn, George M ”The Guns of War” Vol.1 “The Guns of Normandy”, Robinson 2000

Edmondson, J.S. "Account of the Attack by S Sask R on the High Ground 0459 in the Afternoon of 20th July 1944" available here

Forman, Denis "To Reason Why" Andre Deutsch 1991

Greenwood, Trevor "D-Day to Victory. The Diaries of a British Tank Commander" Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 2012

Hart-Dyke, Trevor "Normandy to Arnhem. A Story of the Infantry" Greenup & Thompson 1966 (1987 reprint)

Hills, Stuart "By Tank into Normandy" Cassell 2002

Jary, Sydney "18 Platoon" Sydney Jary Ltd 1991

Maclaughlan, D.G. "Account of the Attack by Calgary Highlanders on May-sur-Orne, 25th July 1944" available here

Maule P.T. "An Account of the Attack by South Sask. Regt on High Ground 0459 in the afternoon of 20th July 1944" available here

Picot, Geoffrey "Accidental Warrior" Penguin Books 1994

Straker, John “The War Diary of ‘H’ Company 8^th Battalion The Rifle Brigade, June 13^th 1944 – May 8^th 1945” MLRS Publishing 2013 (Reprint)

Taylor, George "Infantry Colonel" Self Publishing Association, 1990

Whitehouse, Stanley & Bennett, George "Fear is the Foe" Robert Hale 1995

Whitely, T.F. “Account of the Attack on Louvigny 18-19 July as told to Captain Engler” 20 July 1944 available here

Wilson, Andrew "Flame Thrower" William Kimber & Co. Ltd 1984

Wingfield, Rex "The Only Way Out" Hutchinson & Co. 1953

Woollcombe, Robert "Lion Rampant. The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland" Black & White Publishing 2014

Secondary Works

Allport, Alan "Browned Off and Bloody-Minded. The British Soldier goes to War 1939 - 1945" Yale University Press 2015, paperback edition 2017

Baverstock, Kevin "Breaking the Panzers" Sutton Publishing 2002

Buckley, John “British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944” Frank Cass 2004

Buckley, John "Monty's Men. The British Army and the Liberation of Europe" Yale University Press, 2013

Bull, Stephen "Second World War Infantry Tactics - The European Theatre" Pen & Sword Military 2012

Copp, Terry "Fields of Fire. The Canadians in Normandy" University of Toronto Press 2013

Copp, Terry "Montgomery's Scientists. Operational Research in North West Europe" The Laurier Centre for Military and Disarmament Studies 2000

Copp, Terry & McAndrew, Bill "Battle Exhaustion. Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945" McGill-Queen's University Press 1990

Crang, Jeremy A "The British Army and the People's War 1939 - 1945" Manchester University Press 2000

Daglish, Ian “Over the Battlefield Operation Goodwood” Pen & Sword Military 2004

Daglish, Ian “Over the Battlefield Operation Epsom” Pen & Sword Military 2007

Daglish, Ian “Over the Battlefield Operation Bluecoat” Pen & Sword Military 2009

Delaforce, Patrick "The Polar Bears. Monty's Left Flank. From Normandy to the Relief of Holland with the 49th Division" Chancellor Press 1995

D'Este, Carlo "Decision in Normandy" William Collins & Sons 1983

Ellis, John "The Sharp End. The Fighting Man in World War II" Pimlico Publishing 1990

Engen, Robert "Canadians Under Fire. Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War" McGill-Queens University Press 2009

English, John “The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign. A Study of Failure in High Command” Praeger 1991

French, David “Raising Churchill’s Army. The British Army and the War Against Germany 1919 - 1945” Oxford University Press 2000

Hart, Ashley “Colossal Cracks. The 21^st Army Group in Northwest Europe 1944 - 45” Stackpole Books 2007

Hastings, Max "Overlord. D-Day and the Battle for Normandy" Guild Publishing 1984

How, J.J. "Hill 112" William Kimber 1984

King, Anthony "The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" Oxford University Press 2013

Kite, Ben "Stout Hearts. The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944" Helion & Co. Ltd. 2014

Lamb, Richard "Montgomery in Europe 1943-1945. Success or Failure?" Buchan & Enright 1983

McKee, Alexander "Caen - Anvil of Victory" Pan Books 1964

Napier, Stephen "The Armoured Campaign in Normandy, June - August 1944" The History Press 2017

Place, Timothy Harrison "Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944" Routledge 2000

Reid, Brian A, "No Holding Back. Operation Totalize, Normandy 1944" The History Press Ltd 2005

Saunders, Tim "Operation Epsom Normandy, June 1944" Leo Cooper 2003

Shephard, Ben "A War of Nerves" Jonathan Cape 2000

Townend, Will & Baldwin, Frank "Gunners in Normandy. The History of the Royal Artillery in North-West Europe, January 1942 to August 1944" The History Press 2020

Articles and Book Chapters

Brown, Gordon "The Capture of the Abbaye d'Ardenne by the Regina Rifles, 8 July 1944" Canadian Military History: Vol. 4 Iss. 1 Article 10 1995, available here

Buckley, John “Tackling the Tiger: The Development of British Armoured Doctrine for Normandy 1944” The Journal of Military History 74 (October 2010): 1161-1184

Copp, Terry "21st Army Group in Normandy: Towards a New Balance Sheet" Canadian Military History (June 2012) Vol. 16 Issue 1 Article 7, available here

Dextrase, Jaques "Account of 'A' Company Attack on Troteval Farm by the Fusiliers Mont-Royal on 24 July 1944" Canadian Military History: Vol. 20 No. 3 Summer 2011, available here

Dextrase, Jaques "The Attack on the Church in St. Martin-de-Fontenay: 31 July-1 August 1944" Canadian Military History": Vol. 15 Iss. 3 Article 9, available here

Ford, Matthew "Operational Research, Military Judgment and the Politics of Technical Change in the British Infantry 1943-1953" Journal of Strategic Studies 32:6 2009

French, David "'Tommy is no Soldier': The Morale of the Second British Army in Normandy, June-August 1944" in Reid, Brian Holden (ed) "Military Power - Land Warfare in Theory and Practice" Frank Cass 1997

Jones, Edgar & Ironside, Stephen "Battle Exhaustion: The Dilemma of Psychiatric Casualties in Normandy, June-August 1944" The Historical Journal, 53, 1 (2010) pp.109-128

King, Anthony "Why did 51st Highland Division Fail? A Case-study in Command and Combat Effectiveness" British Journal for Military History, (November 2017) Volume 4, Issue 1, available here

Simonds, Guy and Copp, Terry "General Simonds Speaks: Canadian Battle Doctrine in Normandy" Canadian Military History: Vol. 8 Iss. 2 Article 8, available here

Wilson, David A “The Canadian Role in Operation ‘Charnwood’ 8 July 1944. A Case Study in Tank/Infantry Doctrine and Practice” Canadian Military History, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1999, pp.7-21, available here

Unpublished Theses

Hayes, Geoffrey W "The Development of the Canadian Officer Corps, 1939 - 1945" University of Western Ontario, March 1992

Peaty, J Robert " British Army Manpower Crisis 1944" University of London King's College 2000