title: Allen Andrews (author)
text: # 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)
  