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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-10/1097662898 post] and this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-12/1291560607 post] are about books about the Trek Out of Burma. Refer also Planet Burma Book World below.
*[http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010110101 The Elephant Man] is about the rescue of refugees by Gyles Mackrell , an Assam tea planter. He mounted an operation to save refugees who were trapped by flooded rivers at the border with India using the only means available to get them across - elephants. Includes YouTube film clip from the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge
*[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH40,67293 ''The story of Sam and Marg Acomb''] The War period commences page 28. In 1941 the author escaped from Thailand to Rangoon where he joined the Army in Burma Reserve of Officers. In 1942 he trekked for three weeks out of Burma to India. Subsequently he was assigned as Intelligence Officer in Dibrugahr Assam, Deolali, Ceylon and Bangkok(1944) until he was discharged in August 1946. BYU Digital Collections
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