Publications
Sidney Aster’s Publications, 1971-2016.
• “Ivan Maisky and Parliamentary Anti-Appeasement,” in Lloyd George, Twelve Essays, edited by A.J.P. Taylor (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1971; Atheneum, New York, 1971).
• “Ivan Maisky and Parliamentary Anti-appeasement,” in Lloyd George, Twelve Essays, edited by A.J.P. Taylor (Gregg Revivals, 2nd rev. ed., Aldershot, 1994).
• 1939, The Making of the Second World War (André Deutsch, London, 1973); History Book Club Alternate Choice, September 1973.
• 1939, The Making of the Second World War (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1974).
• 1939, The Making of the Second World War (Gregg Revivals, 2nd rev. ed., Aldershot, 1993).
• Les Origines de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (Librarie Hachette, Paris, 1974).
• A.P. Young, The “X” Documents, The Secret History of Foreign Office Contacts with the German Resistance 1937-1939 (André Deutsch, London, 1974); with 22 page Appendix, “Carl Goerdeler and the Foreign Office”.
• A.P. Young, Die X-Dokumente: Die geheimen Kontakte Carl Goerdelers mit der britischen Regierung, 1938/1939 (R. Piper, Munich, 1989); with 26 page Anhang, “Carl Goerdeler und das Foreign Office.”
• Anthony Eden, A Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1976).
• Anthony Eden, A Biography (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1977).
• The Second World War as a National Experience (Department of National Defence, Ottawa, 1981); with Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading. Posted on http://www., by the Department of National Defence, 2003. See
http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/Official_Histories/Natl_exp.pdf.
• “Britain, From Empire to Welfare State, 1906-Present,” and “Topics in Twentieth Century British Diplomacy,” in Selected Reading Lists and Course Outlines from American Colleges and Universities: Modern European History, 1789 to the Present, Vol. 1, Chronological and National Courses, edited by John Santore (MarkusWiener, New York, 1983, 3rd rev. ed., 1990).
• British Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials (Scholarly Resources, Wilmington, DE, 1984).
• British Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials (D.J. Costello Publishers, Tunbridge Wells, 1984).
• British Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials (Scholarly Resources, Wilmington, DE, and D.J. Costello Publishers, Tunbridge Wells, 1991); extensively expanded and revised second edition.
• “’Guilty Men:’ The Case of Neville Chamberlain,” in Paths to War: New Essays on the Origins of the Second World War, edited by Robert Boyce and Esmonde M. Robertson (Macmillan, London, 1989, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1989).
• “Salter’s Soviet,” in Power, Personalities and Policies: Essays in Honour of Donald Cameron Watt, edited by Michael Graham Fry (Frank Cass, London, 1992, Portland, OR, 1992).
• “Chamberlain: The Guiltiest Man?” in British Appeasement and the Origins of World War II, editedby R.J.Q. Adams (D.C. Heath, Lexington, MA, 1994).
• “’Mapping the Archives,” Documents on British Foreign Policy and Documents on British Policy Overseas,” in Diplomatic Documents and Their Users: Proceedings of the Third Conference of Editors of Diplomatic Documents, Ottawa, 11-13 May 1994, edited by John Hilliker and Mary Halloran (Historical Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Ottawa, 1995).
• “Guilty Men,’ The Case of Neville Chamberlain,” in The Origins of the Second World War, edited by Patrick Finney (Arnold, London, 1997).
• “Military Planning and the Origins of the Second World War: Afterword,” in Military Planning and the Origins of the Second World War, edited by B.J.C. McKercher and Roch Legault (Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, 2001).
• “Viorel Virgil Tilea and the Origins of the Second World War: An Essay in Closure,” in Diplomacy and Statecraft, vol. 13, no. 3, September 2002, pp. 153-174.
• “Chamberlain, Neville, 1869-1940,” pp.244-245, and “Eden, Sir Anthony, Lord Avon, 1897-1977,” pp. 419-420, in Reader’s Guide to British History, 2 vols., edited by David Loades (Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2003).
• “Sir William Seeds: Diplomat as Scapegoat?” in Leadership and Responsibility: Collected Essays in Honour of Professor Robert Vogel, edited by Brian Farrell (McGill Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2004).
• Appeasement and All Souls: A Portrait with Documents, 1937-1939 (Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, Cambridge, 2005).
• “Appeasement: Before and After Revisionism,” Diplomacy and Statecraft, vol. 19, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 443-480.
• Dealing with Josef Stalin: The Moscow Blue Book, 1939 (Argonaut Papers, London, 2009).
•Power, Policy and Personality: The Life and Times of Lord Salter, 1881-1975 (2016).
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