Allen Andrews (25 April 1913 – September 1985) was a British author. He was educated at Bancroft School and St John's College, Oxford, and served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He worked as a writer at several newspapers before starting a freelance career in 1957.^[1] He became a historian who is the author of a number of fine British histories, biographies, and company histories as well. Many of his books have been translated into foreign languages.

Publications

• Proud Fortress: The Fighting Story of Gibraltar (1959)
• Earthquake (1963)
• The Mad Motorists: The Great Peking-Paris Race of '07 (1964)
• Relax and sleep well (1965)
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
• The Splendid Pauper (1968)
• Prosecutor: The Life of M. P. Pugh, Prosecuting Solicitor and Agent for the Director of Public Prosecutions (1968)
• Quotations for Speakers and Writers (1969)
• Monte Carlo or Bust: Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Jalopies (1969)
• The Royal Whore: Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine (1970)
• The Air Marshals (1970)
• Intensive inquiries: Seven Chief Constables open CID files on their most Remarkable Murder Investigations (1973)
• The Follies of King Edward VII (1975)
• Kings and Queens of England and Scotland (1976)
• The King who lost America (1976)
• The Whiskey Barons (1977)
• The Life of L. S. Lowry (1977)
• Wonders of Victorian Engineering (1978)
• Exemplary Justice (1978)
• The Pig Plantagenet (1980)
• Castle Crespin (1982)

Adaptations

• CBS Storybreak episode "The Pig Plantagenet" (1985)
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines Film (1965)
• Monte Carlo or Bust!, released in the United States as Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies Film (1969)

References