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*[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/dli.pahar.3146 Archive.org mirror version]
:Recommended by Peter Moore in [[Military reading list#Other|Military reading list]] who says "He saw active service in the North-West Frontier; Africa; China and was the first prisoner-of-war to escape from the Japanese in Hong Kong; ending the war as the Equitation Instructor at the Officer Cadet School in Bangalore”. His earlier book ''Escape From The Bloodied Sun'' was a more detailed account of his escape from Hong Kong when he was an officer in the Middlesex Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/lastinghonour00lind/mode/2up ''The Lasting Honour : the Fall of Hong Kong, 1941''] by Oliver Lindsay 1980, first published 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/atgoingdownofsun0000lind/page/n5/mode/2up ''At the Going Down of the Sun : Hong Kong and South-East Asia, 1941-1945''] by Oliver Lindsay 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/captiveyearsoccu00birc ''Captive years : the occupation of Hong Kong, 1941-45''] by Alan Birch and Martin Cole 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/empiresinbalance00will ''Empires in the balance : Japanese and Allied Pacific strategies to April 1942''] by H P Willmott 1982
:[https://archive.org/details/greatcrusade00hpwi_0 ''The Great Crusade : a new complete history of the Second World War''] by H P Willmott first published 1989. A review quote on the front cover: "The best balanced one-volume history of the Second World War". [https://archive.org/details/greatcrusadenewc0000will_k8o7/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file].
