Allen Andrews (author)
# Allen Andrews (author)

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. 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)
