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