1. On the genesis of Guilty Men see Michael Foot, Debts of Honour (London, 1980) pp. 96–8; his Loyalists and Loners (London, 1986) pp. 172–5, 180–1; the introduction by Philip Wittenberg to the American edition of Guilty Men (New York, 1940) pp. v–xii; and
2. Anne Wolrige Gordon, Peter Howard: Life and Letters (London, 1969) pp. 104–5; for additional information
3. see Paul Addison, The Road to 1945: British Politics and the Second World War (London, 1975) pp. 110–12;
4. John Lewis, The Left Book Club: An Historical Record (London, 1970);
5. William Harrington and Peter Young, The 1945 Revolution (London, 1978) pp. 55–67;