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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143179 ''Why We Lost Singapore''] by Dorothy Crisp 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*''The War in Malaya'' by Lt-Gen A E Percival 1949 is available as a pdf download on the [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm Sejarah Melayu [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Library] located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list to T.
*[https://archive.org/details/singaporebattlet0000leas/page/n7/mode/2up ''Singapore : the Battle that changed the world''] by James Leasor 1968. A book in ''The Crossroads of World History Series''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Events leading to the Fall of Singapore, including the historical background from the early 1800s.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3394 ''Percival and the Tragedy of Singapore''] by Sir John Smyth 1971. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''': sample pages only.
*[https://archive.org/details/outinmiddaysunsi00caff ''Out in the Midday Sun; Singapore, 1941-45--the End of an Empire''] by Kate Caffrey 1973. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilians0000kenn/page/n5 ''British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45''] by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/whensingaporefel00kenn/page/n5 ''When Singapore fell : Evacuations and Escapes, 1941-42''] by Joseph Kennedy 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/singapore1942bri00warr ''Singapore, 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat''] by Alan Warren 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://www.academia.edu/12122226/Did_Singapore_Have_to_Fall_Churchill_and_the_Impregnable_Fortress ''Did Singapore Have to Fall? Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress''] by Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn 2004. academia.edu. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RfHQo4v2CkEC&pg=PP1 Sample pages: Google Books]
*Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published the 102-volume ''Senshi Sōsho'' (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War.
:Volume 3 of the series:[https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=595090 ''The invasion of the Dutch East Indies''] edited and translated by Willem Remmelink 2015. The campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
: Volume 26 of the series: [https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1001546 ''The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal''] edited and translated by Willem Remmelink 2018. Describes the Japanese Navy’s role in the campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago. It includes the first complete Japanese analysis of the Battle of the Java Sea, a much-debated battle that ended disastrously for the Allies and opened the way to Java for the Japanese. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
: It is intended to translate as a final volume, volume 34 ''Army Air Drive to the Southern Pacific''. More details from [https://cortsstichtingenwww.nlcortsfoundation.org/about-us/projects/senshi-sosho The Corts Foundation], a Dutch non profit organisation.
*''Prisoner of the Japs'' by Gwen Drew 1943. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015040804588?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.60006 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection]. The author was an American journalist who was taken prisoner at the fall of Hong Kong.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indian-cavalryman-by-guest-s-pdf/ ''Indian Cavalryman''] by Captain Freddie Guest, [Reginald Edwin Guest] 1959. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:[https://archive.org/details/worldwarii0000will/page/n5 ''World War II''] by H P Willmott, Charles Messenger, Robin Cross 2008, first published 2004 or prior.
:All Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/intelligencewara00rich ''Intelligence and the war against Japan : Britain, America and the politics of secret service''] by Richard J. Aldrich 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
* ''The Monastery''. Full title: ''The Monastery. An account of the assault of the Abbey of Monte Cassino in 1944'' by Fred Majdalany 1945. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523828 Archive.org version].
* ''Neither Fear Nor Hope''. Full title: ''Neither Fear nor Hope. The wartime career of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, defender of Cassino''. Translated by George Malcolm. 1963. The memoir of General Frido von Senger, first published in the German language in 1960 as ''Krieg in Europa''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.119495 Archive.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofsecondw00lidd ''History of the Second World War''] by B. H. Liddell Hart 1971 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia.
*''The Second World War : a Military History'' by Gordon Corrigan. [https://archive.org/details/secondworldwarmi0000corr 2010 London edition], [https://archive.org/details/secondworldwarmi0000corr_o7z3 2011 New York edition]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/turnoftidehistor00brya/mode/2up ''The Turn of the Tide; a History of the War Years based on the diaries of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff''] by Arthur Bryant. 1957. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/businessofwar011004mbp/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Business Of War: The War Narrative of Major-General Sir John Kennedy''] edited by Bernard Fergusson 1957. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/desertgenerals00barn/mode/2up ''The Desert Generals''] by Correlli Barnett 1960. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. The Generals included are Auchinleck, Cunningham, Montgomery, O'Connor and Ritchie.
:[https://archive.org/details/desertgenerals0000barn/mode/2up ''The Desert Generals''] by Correlli Barnett 1986 reprint of a 1982 New and Enlarged Edition. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:''The Crucible of War: Volume II Auchinleck's Command'' not available online, but available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006723011. Editions, all catalogued 1980, are available on HathiTrust Digital Library, University access only.
:[https://archive.org/details/crucibleofwarmon00barr/mode/2up ''The Crucible of War: Volume III Montgomery and Alamein''] by Barrie Pitt 2001, first published in two volumes 1980 and 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/churchillsgenera00keeg/mode/2up ''Churchill's Generals''] Edited by John Keegan. Multiple authors. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/geniusfordecepti0000rank/mode/2up ''A genius for deception : how cunning helped the British win two world wars''] by Nicholas Rankin 2009. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. First published in Great Britain as ''Churchill's Wizards : the British genius for deception, 1914-1945'' in 2008. [https://archive.org/details/geniusfordecepti0000rank/page/174/mode/2up "Part II" [WW2<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 175.
*[https://archive.org/details/timeforcourage00terr/page/n7 ''A Time for Courage : the Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945''] by John Terraine 1985. Later published as [https://archive.org/details/rightoflineroyal0000terr/page/n3 ''The Right of the Line : the Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945''] by John Terraine 1988. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/europeoneve0000schu/page/n7 ''Europe on the Eve. The Crises of Diplomacy 1933-1939''] by Frederick L Schuman 1939. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/nightovereuroped0000schu/page/n7 ''Night over Europe; the Diplomacy of Nemesis, 1939-1940''] by Frederick L Schuman 1941. [https://archive.org/details/nightovereuroped00schurich/page/n7 File 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/appeasementengli0000oven/page/n5/mode/2up '''Appeasement' and the English speaking world : Britain, the United States, the Dominions, and the policy of 'Appeasement' 1937-1939''] by Ritchie Ovendale 1975. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/BritishForeignPoliceInTheSecondWorldWar ''British Foreign Policy in the Second World War''] by Sir Llewellyn Woodward 1962. Archive.org. This work is stated to be an abridgement (592 pages) of a larger version written for official reference. The latter larger version was published from 1970 also with the same title.
:''British Foreign Policy in the Second World War'' by Sir Llewellyn Woodward 1970 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/britishforeignpo01wood Volume I] (640 pages); [https://archive.org/details/britishforeignpo02wood Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/britishforeignpo00sirl_1 Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/britishforeignpo04wood Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/britishforeignpo05wood Volume V]
