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**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XuhmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Volume III, Part I The Offensive: 1st June 1943- 31 May 1944''] 1960. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=u4sGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 File 2]. [https://archive.org/details/war-at-sea-1939-1945-vol-3-part-1 Archive.org version File 1].
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=S-RmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Volume III, Part II The Offensive 1st June 1944 - 14th August 1945''] 1961. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_4sGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 File 2]. [https://archive.org/details/war-at-sea-1939-1945-vol-3-part-2 Archive.org version File 1]. All volumes are Google Books except where otherwise stated.
:The four volumes are available in reprint editions,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/?s=+%22WAR+AT+SEA+1939-45%22++%22OFFICIAL+HISTORY+OF+THE+SECOND+WORLD+WAR+%22&post_type=product The War at Sea 1939-1945 in four volumes] Naval & Military Press</ref> which in turn are available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19ZOGtYexo ''The War at Sea''], located in Military Books/ Britain/Scroll to letter T
*The following series "While not part of the full length official Military History of the War, it was nevertheless officially commissioned and is based throughout on official documents…"
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pupmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1911 ''Royal Air Force 1939-1945: Volume I The Fight at Odds''] by Denis Richards HMSO 1953. [https://archive.org/details/royal-air-force-1939-1945-vol-1 ''Vol. I'' Archive.org version]
:''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, searchable 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 1991. Multiple authors. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/churchillhisgene0000call/page/n5/mode/2up ''Churchill and his Generals''] by Raymond Callahan 2007 Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/yearthatchangedt000293mbp/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Year that Changed the World: 1945''] by Brian Gardner 1964, first published 1963 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/yearthatchangedt00gard/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library version].
*[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/secretwarspiesco0000hast_k7z8 ''The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-45''] by Max Hastings 2015. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hastings Max Hastings] Wikipedia. British journalist/editor and military historian.
*[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.
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/index.html British Official Histories: ''History of the Second World War: United Kingdom Military Series. The War at Sea], a total of four volumes are described. Hyperwar. Scroll down for transcriptions of**'''Extracts''' from ''War at Sea 1939-1945, Volume 1: The Defensive'' by Captain S. WRoskill RN. Roskill London: HMSO, 1954*:''War at Sea 1939-1945, Volume 2: The Period of Balance'' by S1961. W. RoskillSee [[Second World War#Despatches, S. W. London: HMSOOffical histories (UK)|Despatches, 1956:The four volumes are available in reprint editions,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/?s=+%22WAR+AT+SEA+1939-45%22++%22OFFICIAL+HISTORY+OF+THE+SECOND+WORLD+WAR+%22&post_type=product The War at Sea 1939-1945 in four volumesOffical histories (UK)]] Naval & Military Press</ref> which in turn are available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3above.com as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19ZOGtYexo ''The War at Sea''], located in International/Military Books/ Britain/Scroll to letter T
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-ii-naval-staff-histories World War II Naval Staff Histories] Eight volumes including ''Naval Operations off Ceylon''. Admiralty publications. Website of the Royal Australian Navy.
:[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/hm-ships-damaged-or-sunk-enemy-action-wwii BR 1886 (C.B. 4273 (52) ''H.M. Ships Damaged or Sunk by Enemy Action 3 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945''] Based on reports held in the Admiralty at the time of its publication in 1952. A publication in the Navy Department: Reference Books (BR Series). Website of the Royal Australian Navy.
