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Penguin Specials

First date in brackets is original year of publication
All were issued with dustwrappers up to S57.

S1. Edgar Mowrer : Germany Puts the Clock Back
(1933) (1937)
S2. G T Garratt : Mussolini's Roman Empire
(1938)
S3. Genevieve Tabouis : Blackmail or War
(1938)
S4. Duchess of Atholl : Searchlight on Spain
(1938)
S5. Arnold L Haskell : Ballet
(1938)
S6. Peter Thoene : Modern German Art
(1938)
S7. J M D Pringle : China Struggles for Unity
(1939)
S8. Various : The Air Defence of Britain
(1938)
S9. S Grant Duff : Europe and the Czechs
(1938)
S10. Louis Golding : The Jewish Problem
(1938)

S11. Arnold Bennett : Literary Taste
(1909) (1938)
S12. Phyllis Bottome : The Mortal Storm
(1937) (1938)
S13. E O Lorimer : What Hitler Wants
(1939)
S14. Edgar Mowrer : Mowrer in China
(1938)
S15. Konrad Heiden : One Man Against Europe
(1939)
S16. Robert Gibbings : Blue Angels and Whales
(1938)
S17. W M Macmillan : Warning from the West Indies
(1936) (1938)
S18. Norman Angell : The Great Illusion Now
(1938)
S19. Charles Madge & Tom Harrison : Britain - By Mass Observation
(1939)
S20. Wickham Steed : The Press
(1938)

S21. Marquess of Londonderry : Ourselves and Germany
(1938) (1938)
S22. Anthony Bertram : Design
(1938)
S23.
S24. G J George : They Betrayed Czechoslavakia
(1938)
S25. Stefan Lorant : I Was Hitler's Prisoner
(1935) (1939)
S26. "Vigilantes" : Between Two Wars
(1939)
S27. S Mervyn Herbert : Britain's Health
(1939)
S28. Hugh Nicol : Microbes by the Million
(1939)
S29. Norman Angell & D F Buxton : You and the Refugee
(1939)
S30.
(Ed) Richard Keane : Germany What Next ? (1939)

S31. C E M Joad : Why War ?
(1939)
S32. F Le Gros Clark & R M Titmuss : Our Food Problem
(1939)
S33. Dr F Borkenau : The New German Empire
(1939)
S34. W J Rose : Poland
(1939)
S35. Lucia Moholy : A Hundred Years of Photography
(1939)
S36. Elwyn Jones : The Attack from Within
(1939)
S37. Jaroslav Hasek : The Good Soldier Schweik
(1939)
S38. Viscount Astor & B S Rowntree : British Agriculture
(1939)
S39. Hugh J Schonfield : The Suez Canal
(1939)
S40. Edward J Dent : Opera
(1940)

S41. H G Wells : Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water
(1939)
S42.
S43.
S44. D N Pritt : Light on Moscow
(1939)
S45. The Government Blue Book
(1939)
S46. W B Curry : The Case for Federal Union
(1939)
S47. Harold Nicolson : Why Britain is at War
(1939)
S48.
(Compiler) Walter Theimer : The Penguin Political Dictionary (1939)
S49. Low : Europe Since Versailles
(1940) - No d/w
S50. H G Wells : The Rights of Man
(1940)

S51. D N Pritt : Must the War Spread
(1940)
S52.
S53.
S54. Sir Richard Acland : Unser Kampf, Our Struggle
(1940)
S55. John Hadham : Good God
(1940) - possibly No d/w
S56. Sir Walter Citrine : My Finnish Diary
(1940)
S57. Hugh Dalton : Hitler's War - Before & After
(1940)
S58. K S Shelvankar : The Problem of India
(1940)
S59. Louis Fischer : Stalin and Hitler
(1940)
S60. A C Hardy : Warships at Work
(1940)

S61.
S62. Norman Angell : Why Freedom Matters
(1940)
S63. C Isabel Hilyer : Hydroponics, Food without Soil
(1940)
S64. H G Wells : The Common Sense of War and Peace
(1940)
S65. Bishop of Chichester : Christianity & World Order
(1940)
S66. S C Johnson : The Penguin Political Atlas
(1940)
S67.
S68.
S69.
S70. John Price : Organised Labour in the War
(1940)

S71.
S72. Eleanor F Rathbone : The Case for Family Allowances
(1940)
S73. John Hadham : God in a World at War
(1940)
S74. ANON : Science in War
(1940)
S75. Tom Wintringham : New Ways of War
(1940)
S76. J Keith Horsefield : The Real Cost of the War
(1940)
S77. Edward Glover : The Psychology of Fear and Courage
(1940)
S78. Harold J Laski : Where Do We Go from Here ?
(1940)
S79. F Lafitte : The Internment of Aliens
(1940)
S80. Paul Einzig : Europe in Chains
(1940)

S81. Bernard Pares : Russia
(1940)
S82. R A Saville-Sneath : Aircraft Recognition Volume 1
(1941)
S83. David Low : Europe at War
(1941)
S84. Louis Levy : The Truth About France
(1941)
S85. Ronald Walker : Flight to Victory
(1940)
S86.
S87. Frank Wokes : Food the Deciding Factor
(1941)
S88. A C Hardy : World Shipping
(1941)
S89. A C F Beales : The Catholic Church and International Order
(1941)
S90. F W P Carter : The Penguin Book of Food Growing, Storing & Cooking
(1941)

S91. H G Stokes : Signalling and Map Reading for the Home Guard
(1941)
S92. General Wavell : Generals and Generalship
(1941)
S93. Bishop of Truro : The Gospel for Tomorrow
(1941)
S94. Wilfrid Bovey : The French Canadians Today
(1942)
S95. Ake Fen : Nazis in Norway
(1943)
S96. Clive Garsia : Planning the War
(1941)
S97. "Pentad" : The Remaking of Italy
(1941)
S98. Marcel Hoden : A Diary of World Affairs
(1941)
S99. Sir George Stapledon & William Davies : Ley Farming
(1942)
S100. Nora Waln : Reaching for the Stars
(1942)

S101. Alan Thompson & C H Goodchild : Keeping Rabbits and Poultry on Scrap
(1941)
S102. 'Yank' Levy : Guerrilla Warfare
(1941)
S103. C S orwin : Speed the Plough
(1942)
S104. Archbishop of York : Christianity and Social Order
(1942)
S105. B H Liddell Hart : The British Way in Warfare
(1932) (1942)
S106. Robert E Dickinson : The German Lebensraum
(1943)
S107. Aleck Bourne : Health of the Future
(1942)
S108. W E Sutch : The Quest for Security in New Zealand
(1942)
S109.
(Ed) Archbishop of Canterbury : Is Christ Divided ? (1943)
S110. Maurice Edelman : How Russia Prepared - USSR Beyond the Urals
(1942)

S111. E B Uvarov : A Dictionary of Science
(1942)
S112. R A Saville-Sneath : Aircraft Recognition Part II
(1942)
S113. Paul W Thompson : Modern Battle
(1942)
S114. Dorothy Woodman : An ABC of the Pacific
(1942)
S115. Low : The World at War
(1942)
S116. Marcel Hoden : A Diary of World Affairs : Volume 2
(1942)
S117. Mass Observation : People in Production
(1942)
S118. Thomas Ivor : Warfare by Words
(1942)
S119. Raymond Bush : Soft Fruit Growing
(1942)
S120. A E Morgan : Young Citizen
(1943)

S121. J G Crowther et al : Science and World Order
(1942)
S122. D Stark Murray : The Future of Medicine
(1942)
S123. H R Knickerbocker : Is Tomorrow Hitler's ?
(1942)
S124. John Gloag : What About Business ?
(1942)
S125. Bishop of Bradford : What the Church Teaches
(1942)
S126. Tom Wintringham : 'Peoples' War
(1942)
S127. Good Housekeeping Institute : Wartime 'Good Housekeeping' Cookery Book
(1942)
S128. Sydney M Laird : Venereal Disease in Britain
(1943)
S129. H G Wells : Crux Ansata - An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church
(1943)
S130. W J Hancock : Argument of Empire
(1943)

S131. Leonard Barnes : Soviet Light on the Colonies
(1944)
S132. Raymond Bush : Tree Fruit Growing Volume 1 - Apples
(1943)
S133. ANON : The Next Germany
(1943)
S134.
(Selected) Phyllis Bottome : Our New Order or Hitler's (1943)
S135. Various : How the Jap Army Fights
(1943)
S136. A J Evans : Why Not Prosperity
(1943)
S137. Alice Crang : Preserves for All Occasions
(1944)
S138. Raymond Bush : tree Fruit Growing Volume II
(1943)
S139.
(Ed) G M Young : Country and Town (1943)
S140. Claude H Goodchild : Rabbit Farming
(1944)

S141. John Hadham : God and Human Progress
(1944)
S142. H N Brailsford : Our Settlement with Germany
(1944)
S143. Horace Alexander : India Since Cripps
(1944)
S144. Alan Thompson : Poultry Farming
(1945)
S145. W H Rowe : Trees and Shrubs
(1944)
S146. A J Simons : The Vegetable Grower's Handbook Volume 1
(1945)
S147. A J Simons : The Vegetable Grower's Handbook Volume 2
(1945)
S148. Sir P Thankurdas et al : A Plan of Economic Development for India
(1944 India) (1944)
S149. B L Coombes : Miners Day
(1945)
S150. E R Stettinius Jnr : Lend-Lease
(1944) (1944)

S151. David E Lilienthal : TVA
(Tennessee Valley Authority) (1944) (1944)
S152. Wayland Young : The Profumo Affair - Aspects of Conservatism
(1963)
S153. Bernard Pares : Russia and the Peace
(1944)
S154. T L Horobin : Politics Made Plain
S155. Maurice Edelman : France - The Birth of the Fourth Republic
(1944)
[From here onwards a new format was designed and the New Series were
issued from 1949]


S156. William Gallacher : The Case for Communism
(1949)
S157. K Zilliacus : I Choose Peace
(1949)
S159. W Arthur Lewis et al : Attitude to Africa
(1951)
S160. Bob Darke : The Communist Technique in Britain
(1952)

S161. Bishop of Chichester : The Kingship of Christ
(1954)
S162. Andrew Rothstein : Peaceful Co-Existence
(1955)
S163. Martin d'Arcy : Communism and Christinity
(1956)
S164. Guy Wint : Spotlight on Asia
(1955)
S165. "Socialist Union" : 20thC Socialism
(1956)
S166. Kathleen Lonsdale : Is Peace Possible ?
(1957)
S167. Guy Wint & Peter Calvocoressi : Middle East Crisis
(1957)
S168. Gordon Connell-Smith : Pattern of the Post-War World
(1957)
S169. Normal Lansdell : The Atom and the Energy Revolution
(1958)
S170. Andrew Shonfield : British Economic Policy Since the War
(1958)

S171. R C Churchill : Sixty Seasons of League Football
(1958)
S172. Ralph E Lapp : The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon
(1957) (1958)
S173. John Hersey : Hiroshima
(1946 in the New Yorker) (1958)
S174. J P Cole : Geography of World Affairs
(1959)
S175. Michael Howard : Disengagement in Europe
(1958)
S176. Roger Fulford : The Liberal Case
(1959)
S177. Roy Jenkins : The Labour Case
(1959)
S178. Viscount Hailsham : The Conservative Case
(1959)
S179. Ping-Chia Kuo : China - New Age and New Outlook
(1956) (1960)
S180. Paul-Henri Spaak : Why NATO ?
(1959)

S181.Wayland Young : Strategy for Survival
(1959)
S182. Edward Crankshaw : Kruschev's Russia
(1959)
S183. Audrey Harvey : Tenants in Danger
(1964)
S184. Robert Jungk : Brighter than a Thousand Suns
(1958) (1960)
S185. Vance Packard : The Hidden Persuaders
(1957 McKay) (1960)
S186. Emmet John Hughes : America the Invincible
(1959 Doubleday) (1960)
S187. William H Whyte : The Organization Man
(1956 Simon & Schuster) (1960)
S188. Mark Abrams et al : Must Labour Lose ?
(1960)
S189. Michael Shanks : The Stagnant Society
(1961)
S190. Francis Newton : The Jazz Scene
(1959 MacGibbon & Kee) (1961)

S191. Colin Legum : Congo Disaster
(1961)
S192. C H Rolph : The Trial of Lady Chatterley
(1961)
S193.
(Ed) Arthur Garratt : Penguin Science Survey Part 1 (1961)
S194.
(Ed) S A Barrett & Anne McLaren : Penguin Science Survey Part 2 (1961)
S195.
(Ed) M Vassiliev & S Gouschev : Life in the 21stC (1959 Russia) (1961)
S196. Leslie Hale : Hanged in Error
(1961)
S197. Arthur Koestler & C H Rolph : Hanged by the Neck - An Exposure of Capital
Punishment in England
(1961)
S198. Eric Wigham : What's Wrong with the Unions ?
(1961)
S199. Nick Earle : What's Wrong with the Church ?
(1961)
S200. Peter Benenson : Persecution
(1961)

S201. Nora Beloff : The General Says No - Britain's Exclusion from Europe
(1963)
S202. Edward Behr : The Algerian Problem
(1961)
S203. Martin Mayer : Madison Avenue, USA
(1958) (1961)
S204. Michael Edwardes : Asia in the Balance
(1962)
S205. Patrick Van Rensburg : Guilty Land
(1962 Cape) (1962)
S206. Bertrand Russell : Has Man a Future ?
S207. Raymond Williams : Communications
(1962)
S208. John Vaizey : Education for Tomorrow
(1962)
S209. John Mander : Berlin - Hostage for the West
(1962)
S210. Ronald Fletcher : The Family and Marriage
(1962)

S211. Stanley Alderson : Housing
(1962)
S212.
(Ed) Ronald Segal : Sanctions Against South Africa (1964)
S213. C M Fletcher et al : Common Sense about Smoking
(1963)
S214. Andrew Boyd : United Nations - Piety, Myth & Truth
(1961)
S215. Pierre Vidal-Naquet : Torture - Cancer of Democracy
(1952)
S216. Louis Blom-Cooper : The A6 Murder
(1963)
S217. Kingsley Martin : The Crown and the Establishment
(1963)
S218. Edward Crankshaw : The New Cold War - Moscow v. Pekin
(1963)
S219. Philip O'Connor " Vagrancy
(1963)
S220. Bertrand Russell : Unarmed Victory

S221. Rex Malik : What's Wrong with British Industry ?
(1964)
S222. John Mander : Great Britain or Little England ?
(1963)
S223. Michael Harrington : The Other America - Poverty in the USA
(1962 US) (1963)
S224. Jim Northcott : Why Labour ?
(1964)
S225. Timothy Raison : Why Conservative ?
(1964)
S226. Tom Stonier : Nuclear Disaster
(1964)
S227. Robert Scheer & Maurice Zeitlin : Cuba - An American Tragedy
(1964)
S228. Buchanan Report : Traffic in Towns
(1964)
S229. Margot Bennett : The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Atomic Radiation
(1964)
S230. Andrew Hill & Anthony Whichelow : What's Wrong with Parliament ?
(1964)

S231. Gerda L Cohen : What's Wrong with Hospitals ?
(1964)
S232. Ben Whitaker : The Police
(1964 Eyre & Spottiswoode) (1964)
S233. Denis Warner : The Last Confucian - Vietnam, SE Asia and the West
(1963 Macmillan) (1964)
S234. Gordon Mitchell : Sick Cities
(1965)
S235. Harry Cowie : Why Liberal ?
(1964)
S236. Charles Foley : Legacy of Strife - Cyprus
(1962 Longmans) (1964)
S237. Harold Wilson : The New Britain - Labour's Plan
(1964)
S238. David Marsh : The Future of the Welfare State
(1964)
S239. Geoffrey Moorhouse : The Other England
(1964)
S240. Brian Crozier : South-East Asia in Turmoil
(1965)

S241. Ronald Sgeal : The Crisis of England
(1965)
S242. Mary Grigg : The Challenor Case
(1965)
S243. Ghita Ionescu : The Break-Up of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe
(1965)
S244. Ruth First : One Hundred and Seventeen Days
(South Africa) (1965)
S245. Paul Foot : Immigration and Race in British Politics
(1965)
S246.
(Ed) Marvin E Gentleman : Vietnam (1966)
S247. Juliet Rhys-Williams : A New Look at Britain's Economic Policy
(1965)
S248. Edward Beddington-Behrens : Is there any Choice ? - Britain must Join Europe
(1966)
S249. Peter Laurie : Drugs
(1967)
S250. Bruce Grant : Indonesia
(1967)

S251. David Horowitz : From Yalta to Vietnam
(1967)
S252. Neville Brown : Army Without Empire
(1967)
S253. Blackburn & Cockburn : The Incompatibles - Trade Unions
S254. John Cooper : A Suitable Case for Treatment
(1968)
S255. Felix Greene : Vietnam, Vietnam !
S256. Gabriel Roth : Paying for Roads
(1967)
S257. W W Daniel : Racial Discrimination in England
(1968)
S258. Douglas Jay : After the Common Market
(1968)
S259. Mary McCarthy : Vietnam
(1967 USA) (1968)
S260.
(Ed) James C Miller III : Why the Draft ? (1968) - US Edition

S261.
(Ed) Pierre Uri : From Commonwealth to Common Market (1968)
S262.
(Ed) Raymond Williams : May Day Manifesto (1967) (1968)
S263. Maxime Rodinson : Israel and the Arabs
(1968)
S264.
(Ed) Eric & Jane Moonman : Science & Technology in Europe (1968)
S265. Paul Foot : The Politics of Harold Wilson
S266. Blackburn & Cockburn : Student Power
S267. Turrell Burgess et al : Matters of Principle - Labour's Last Chance
(1968)
S268. Gabriel & Daniel Cohn-Bendit : Obsolete Communism
(1968) (1969)
S269. Seale & McConville : French Revolution
(1968)
S270. J P Mackintosh : The Devolution of Power
(1968)

S271. Z A B Zeman : Prague Spring
(1968)
S272. Andrew Kopkind : America - The Mixed Curse
S273. George G Catlin : The Atlantic Commonwealth
(1969)
S274.
(Ed) Christopher Hill : Rights and Wrongs
S275. John Pinder & Roy Pryce : Europe After De Gaulle
(1969)
S276. Frederick Forsyth : The Biafra Story
(1969) - 30,000 copies
S277. Constantine Tsoucalas : The Greek Tragedy
(1969)
S278. Peter Ryan : The Invasion of the Moon
(1969)
S279. Paul Foot : The Rise of Enoch Powell
(1969)
S280. Ken Coates & Richard Silburn : Poverty - the Forgotten Englishman
(1970)

S281. Liam De Paor : Divided Ulster
S282. James D Halloran et al : Demonstrations and Communication
(1970)
S283. Brian Lapping : The Labour Government 1964-70
S284. David Lewis & Peter Hughman : Most Unnatural - An inquiry into the Stafford Case
(1971)
S285.
(Ed) Judy Hillman : Planning for London (1971)
S286. Ovid Demaris : America the Violent
(1970) - US only
S287. Derek Humphry & Gus John : Because They're Black
(1971)
S288. Daniel Lomax : September in Jordan
(1971) - US only
S289. Various : The Non-Medical Use of Drugs
S290. Vincent Burke : Teachers in Turmoil
(1971)

S291. Anna Coote & Lawrence Grant : Civil Liberty - The NCCL Guide 91972)
S292. John Lewallen : Indo-China - Edcology of Devastation - US only
S293. Jack Shaw : On Our Conscience - Plight of the Elderly
S294. Jon Rowland : Community Decay
S295. Editors of the Ecologist : A Blueprint for Survival
S296. Sunday Times Insight Team : Ulster
(1972)
S297. Glyn & Sutcliffe : British Capitalism - Workers and Profits
S298. Sjostrom & Nilsson : Thalidomide and the Power of the Drug
S299. Tony Lynes : The Penguin to Supplementary Benefits
(1972)
S300. Ron Bailey : The Squatters
(1973)

S301. Paul Ferris : The New Militants
S302. Aubrey Jones : The New Inflation
(1973)
S303. Peter Ambrose & Bob Colenutt : The Property Machine
(1975)
S304. Theo Crosby : How to Play the Environment Game
S305. Anna Coote & Tess Gill : Women's Rights - A Practical Guide
S306. Andrew Wilson : The Concorde Fiasco
(1973)
S307. Eamon McCann : War and an irish Town
S308. Martin Dillon & Denis Lehane : Political Murder in Northern Ireland
S309. Humphry & Ward : Passports and Politics
S310. John McGuffin : The Guinea Pigs
(1974)

S311. Erin Pizzey : Scream Quietly or the Neighbours will Hear
(1974)
S312. Barry Cox : Civil Liberties in Britain
S313.
S314. Alan Klass : There's Gold in Them Thar Hills
S315. Graham Bannock : How to Survive the Slump
(1975)
S317.
S318. Cox, et al : The Fall of Scotland Yard
S319.
S320. Eva Forest : From a Spanish Jail

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