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Books
Warburton's War by Tony Spooner with additions by Chris Goss (Crécy, 2003)
Evidence in Camera: The Story of Photographic Intelligence in World War II by Constance Babington-Smith (Chatto and Windus, 1958)
Eyes of the RAF: A History of Photo-Reconnaissance by Roy Conyers-Nesbit (Alan Sutton, 1996)
RAF in action 1939-1945 by Roy Conyers-Nesbit (Public Record Office, 2000)
Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 by Reginald Victor Jones (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
Above All Unseen: The Royal Air Force's Photographic Reconnaissance Units 1939-1945 by Edward Leaf (Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1997)
The Eye of Intelligence by Ursula Powys-Lybbe (William Kimber, 1983)
Targeting The Reich: Allied Photographic Reconnaissance over Europe, 1939-1945 by Alfred Price (Greenhill Books, 2003)
Spitfire in Blue by Hugh Smallwood (Osprey Aerospace, 1996)
Allied Photo Reconnaissance of World War Two edited by Christopher Staerck (Parkgate Books, 1998)
To Fool a Glass Eye: Camouflage Versus Photoreconnaissance in World War II by Roy Stanley (AirLife Publishing, 1998)
About the author
Allan Williams has been Curator of The National Collection of Aerial Photography, now part of RCAHMS, since 2001. Over this period he has led the development of the Collection, greatly increasing its accessibility to researchers and use by specialist businesses, in particular the bomb disposal industry. In addition he has worked closely with the Ministry of Defence on the declassification of many millions of aerial photographs taken throughout the world from the Second World War to the late 1980s. He is a published expert on aerial photography, with a particular specialism in Second World War photographic intelligence.
