Aster, Sidney

Books authored and edited

• Dealing With Josef Stalin, The Moscow Blue Book 1939 (2009)
• Appeasement and All Souls: A Portrait with Documents. Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society (2005)
• British Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials (2nd ed., 1991)
• A.P. Young. Die X-Dokumente: Die geheimen Kontakte Carl Goerdelers mit der britischen Regierung. 1938/1939 (rev. ed.,1989)
• Anthony Eden: A Biography (1976) 
• A.P. Young and the "X" Documents, The Secret History of Foreign Office Contacts the German Resistance 1937-1939 (1974)
• 1939: The Making of the Second World War (1973, French ed., 1974, reprinted 1993)

Chapters in books

• "Sir William Seeds: The Diplomat as Scapegoat?" in Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Vogel (2004)
• "Military Planning and the Origins of the Second World War", in Military Planning and the Origins of The Second World War in Europe (2001)
• "'Guilty Men': The Case of Neville Chamberlain", in The Origins of the Second World War (1997)
• "'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 (1995)
• "Chamberlain: The Guiltiest Man?" in British Appeasement and the Origins of World War II (1994)
• "Ivan Maisky and Parliamentary Anti-Appeasement", in Lloyd George, Twelve Essays, edited by A.J.P. Taylor (1971, reprinted 1994)
• "Salter's Soviet': Another View of All Souls and Appeasement", in Power, Personalities and Policies: Essays in Honour of Donald Cameron Watt (1992)
• "'Guilty Men': The Case of Neville Chamberlain", in Paths to War: New Essays on the Origins of the Second World War (1989)

Articles

• "Appeasement: Before and After Revisionism", in Diplomacy and Statecraft, vol. 30, no. 4, Dec. 2008, pp. 873 - 4.
• "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. (2003)
• "Viorel Virgil Tilea and the Origins of the Second World War: An Essay in Closure", in Diplomacy and Statecraft, vol. 13, no. 3, Sept. 2002, pp. 153-74

Recent Book Reviews

• Brian Lavery, Churchill Goes to War: Winston's Wartime Journeys(Annapolis, MD, 2007) - in The International History Review, vol. 20, no. 4, Dec. 2008, pp. 873 - 4.
• Paul Addison, Churchill:  The Unexpected Hero (Oxford, 2005) in The European Legacy. 1.c. vol. 12, no. 3, May 2007, pp. 366 - 7.
• Keith Neilson, Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939 (Cambridge, 2006) in Canadian Journal of History, vol. 41, no. 3, Winter 2006, pp. 570-2.
• Niall Barr, The Lion and the Poppy: British Veterans, Politics and Society, 1921-1939 (Westport, CT, 2005) in Journal of British Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, April 2006, pp. 465-7.
• Christopher Price, Britain, America, and Rearmament in the 1930s:  The Cost of Failure (Basingstoke, 2001) in Journal of Modern History, vol. 77, no. 1, March 2005, pp. 183-5
• Greg Kennedy, Anglo-American Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939 (London, 2002) in The Canadian Journal of History, April 2004, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 219-21
• John Grigg, Lloyd George: War Leader (London 2002), in The International History Review, December 2003, vol. XXV, no. 4, pp. 930-1
• Gordon Martel, ed., The Times and Appeasement: The Journals of A.L. Kennedy, 1932-1939 (London, 2000), in Albion, Summer 2003, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 347-9
• Peter Neville, Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Neville Henderson, 1937-1939 (London, 2000) in Canadian Journal of History, December 2001, vol. XXXVI, no. 3, pp. 589-591
• John Ruggiero, Neville Chamberlain and British Rearmament: Pride, Prejudice and Politics (Westport, CT, 1999) in Albion, Spring 2001, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 169-170
• Martin H. Folly, Churchill, Whitehall and the Soviet Union, 1940-1945 (London, 2000), American Historical Review, June 2001, vol. 106, no. 3, p. 1049
• Jill Edwards, Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 1944-1955 (Oxford, 1999) in English Historical Review, April 2000, vol. CXV, no. 461, pp. 509-10
• Philip Payson O'Brien, British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy,1900-1936 (Westport CT, 1998) in English Historical Review, Nov. 1999, Vol. 104, No. 459, pp. 1364-5