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*[https://archive.org/details/sueztosingapore0000brow/page/n5 ''Suez to Singapore''] by Cecil Brown 1942. [https://archive.org/details/sueztosingapore0b81brow/page/n5 2nd digital file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author was an American war correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System attached to the British Forces in the Middle East and the Far East.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127425 ''Singapore And After: A Study Of The Pacific Campaign''] 1942. The author is stated elsewhere to be Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi. Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2680 ''Malayan Postscript''] by Ian Morrison,1943. The Malayan jungle campaign and the disaster of Singapore. Pdf download, DSpace, National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''': Sample pages only
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.60150 ''Last Flight From Singapore''] by Arthur G. Donahue 1943. The book tells the story of the battle, in particular the air battle for Singapore and the subsequent battle in the air over the jungle. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527352 ''Why Singapore Fell''] by Lieut Gen H. Gordon Bennett 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143179 ''Why We Lost Singapore''] by Dorothy Crisp 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2680 ''Malayan Postscript''] by Ian Morrison,1943. The Malayan jungle campaign and the disaster of Singapore. Pdf download, DSpace, National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''': Sample pages only
*''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.
*[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/singapore19411940000alle/page/n1/mode/2up ''Singapore, 1941-1942''] by Louis Allen 1979, first published 1977. A book in the series ''The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War''. 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://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://cortsstichtingen.nl/projects/senshi-sosho The Corts Foundation], a Dutch non profit organisation.
*[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.
*''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.
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