• Norman Longmate (15 December 1925 – 4 June 2016) was an English author and social and military historian. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Worcester...
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    1948 Dudley Saward, Bernard Lovell: A Biography - Robert Hale - 1984 Norman Longmate The Bombers: the RAF offensive against Germany, 1939-1945, Hutchins...
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  • We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life in the Second World War, Norman Longmate, Arrow Books, 1971, pp 142, 159 "Spam – Definition and More from the...
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    Yvonne Devereux 'Evacuated to Canada' How We Lived Then – extract from Norman Longmate book CLUTCH Club History Learning Site Lecture transcript on Operation...
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  • priest and Church historian Philip Kitcher – Professor of philosophy Norman Longmate – Author, historian and broadcaster Jeremiah Markland – Classical scholar...
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    a force alleged by French sources to number 6000 in total, though Norman Longmate considers this to be "grossly exaggerated". They prepared a fortified...
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  • secretly until 1935 - it was an air force in disguise." The historian Norman Longmate reported that during its peacetime flights in the 1930s, the airline...
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    1803), p. 3. Norman Longmate, Island Fortress. The Defence of Great Britain 1603–1945 (Pimlico, 2001), pp. 285-6. Longmate, p. 286. Longmate, pp. 286-7...
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    Column to Berlin after an expected German invasion, as related by Norman Longmate in If Britain Had Fallen (1972). The square has been Grade I listed...
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  • Horsham, West Sussex, as well as being a housemaster. The historian Norman Longmate wrote that he was the "James Boyer of his day, a notable teacher of...
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    2009, retrieved 4 March 2010 United States Strategic Bombing Survey Norman Longmate, The Bombers:The RAF Offensive against Germany 1939–1945, pp.309–312...
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    239. Nelson 2003. Longmate 1983, p. 122. Longmate 1983, p. 126. Hill 1942. Longmate 1983, pp. 130–131. Longmate 1983, p. 132. Longmate 1983, p. 133; Copp...
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  • name of Barak Longmate, an 18th-century English genealogist. Barak Norman (c.1670–c.1740), English musical instrument maker Barak Longmate (1738–1793),...
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  • 85, Italian painter. Erich Linemayr, 83, Austrian football referee. Norman Longmate, 90, English historian. Sir Brian McGrath, 90, British courtier, private...
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    ISBN 0-19-215882-1. Longmate, Norman (1990). Defending the Island. London: Grafton Books. ISBN 0-586-20845-3. MacDougall, Norman (2001). An Antidote to...
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  • THE ARMY, U.S. Government Printing Office, WASHINGTON, D. C., 1985 Longmate, Norman. The Bombers. Hutchins & Co, 1983. ISBN 0-09-151580-7. Isby, David...
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    German-Finnish Coalition in World War II (Casemate Publishers, 2011) p258 Norman Longmate, Hitler's Rockets: The Story of the V-2s (Skyhorse Publishing, 2009)...
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    The Gestapo: A History of Horror (Skyhorse Publishing, 2008) p337 Norman Longmate, Hitler's Rockets: The Story of the V-2s (Skyhorse Publishing, 2009)...
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    France in the Seven Years War McLynn p 385 Longmate p 181 McLynn pp 386-87 Bibliography Longmate, Norman. Island Fortress: The Defence of Great Britain...
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  • Poor Laws. 1834. p. 35. Retrieved 28 April 2013. Dorset, 1820–1832. Norman Longmate (29 May 2003). The Workhouse. Random House UK. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-7126-0637-0...
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    taken, they were at the last forced to retire." Military historian Norman Longmate observes tartly, "in presenting damning facts in the most favourable...
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    Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2008-03-23. Longmate, Norman (1983). The Bombers: The RAF offensive against Germany 1939-1945. Hutchinson...
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  • from Home Guard members and their regimental publications inspired Norman Longmate's history The Real Dad's Army (1974). The first DVD releases of Dad's...
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    and the Nazi Invasion Plan. Greenhill Books. ISBN 978-1-85367-730-4. Longmate, Norman (1974). The Real Dad's Army: The Story of the Home Guard. Hutchinson...
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    Max (1979). Bomber Command. Dial Press/J. Wade. ISBN 0-7181-1603-8. Longmate, Norman (1983). The Bombers: The RAF offensive against Germany 1939–1945. Hutchinson...
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    28-29 Rodger p.244 Longmate p.149 Longmate p.149 Browning, Reed. The Duke of Newcastle. Yale University Press, 1975. Longmate, Norman. Island Fortress:...
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    British National Archives. Archived from the original on 12 August 2012. Longmate, Norman (1983). The Bombers. Hutchins & Company. ISBN 0-0915-1580-7. McKee...
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  • Fifteenth Century England. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7146-1488-5. Longmate, Norman (1990). Defending the Island. London: Grafton. ISBN 0-586-20845-3....
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    Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-307-59300-9. Bibliography Longmate, Norman (2011). Defending The Island: From Caesar to the Armada. Random House...
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    Trust), 12 November 1647, pp. 519–522 BBC DNA page about Robert Holmes Longmate, Norman (2001). Island Fortress: The Defence of Great Britain, 1603–1945. London...
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