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*[https://archive.org/details/stilwellpatriotv00roon_0/page/n5 ''Stilwell the Patriot: Vinegar Joe, the Brits and Chiang Kai-Shek''] by David Rooney 2005. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/theraidersofarak0000unse/mode/2up ''The Raiders of Arakan''] by C. E. Lucas Phillips 1971. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The exploits of Denis Holmes and V Force (1943-44).
*[https://archive.org/details/quarteredsafeout00fras_0 ''Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma''] by George MacDonald Fraser 1993 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/QuarteredSafeOutHere Audio extracts] Archive.org, originally a BBC Radio Reading. He served in the Border Regiment. He was also the author of the ''Flashman'' series of novels. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald_Fraser George MacDonald Fraser] Wikipedia.*[https://archive.org/details/battletalesfromb0000rand/mode/2up ''Battle Tales from Burma''] by Brigadier John Randle. 2005 edition, first published 2004. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Seventh Battalion The (10th) Baluch Regiment, served in the Burma Campaign 1942-1945.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66605 ''Burma And The Japanese Invader''] by Christian John Leroy 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175424 ''The War In Burma''] by Roy Mckelvie 1948. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/royalairobservationcorps19351955book/page/n1/mode/2up ''Royal Air Observation Post. Auster Era 1936-1956. Evolution and Campaigns''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema 2012. Includes [https://archive.org/details/royalairobservationcorps19351955book/page/n105/mode/2up Chapter Five "Operations in Burma"] page 107. Archive.org. (AOP Air Observation Post, a light unarmed aircraft flown exclusively by Royal Artillery Officers. Air OP Squadron, A Royal Air Force Unit consisting of Squadron Headquarters and three Flights A, B and C attached to the Royal Artillery of a Corps.)
*''Far East'' by Cecil Beaton 1945. [https://archive.org/details/fareast0000beat/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library version with better photographs], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.217997/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version]. Well known photographer. During WW2 he worked for the UK Ministry of Information, which sent him to India, Burma and China 1943-1944 for six months (he was in China in 1944), as a war photographer. Chapters include [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.217997/page/n43/mode/2up "Assam, Burma and the Arakan Front"] page 22, and chapters on China.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181011062612/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/ ''The History of the Royal West African Frontier Force''] by Colonel A. Haywood and Brigadier F.A.S.Clarke. 1964. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk, now archived at Archive.org. Originally required Flash turned on, this requirement may still apply applies - you can only read the print version of this book if you see a still have Flash icon, click itinstalled on your computer. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Transcribed version]. Includes operations in Burma.
:''"West African Way" The Story of the Burma Campaigns 1943-1945, 5th Bn. Gold Coast Regt., 81 West African Division'' by Lt. Col. C. G. Bowen originally published 1946, is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/west-african-waythe-story-of-the-burma-campaigns-1943-1945-5th-bn-gold-coast-regt-81-west-african-division/ '''West African Way" The Story of the Burma Campaigns 1943-1945, 5th Bn. Gold Coast Regt., 81 West African Division''] by Lt. Col. C. G. Bowen. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 with title [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8-LtY0s36riycrFoi ''The Story of the Burma Campaigns''] (located in /Military Books (locate by the Search)/West Africa).
:[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/war-journal-of-the-fifth-kenya-battalion-the-kings-african-rifles-1939-1945/ ''War Journal Of The Fifth (Kenya) Battalion The King’s African Rifles 1939-1945''] by W. D. Draffan & T. C. Lewin is available on fold3.com, a pay website owned by Ancestry, located in Military Books (locate by the Search)/Kenya. This is an online version of a Naval & Military Press reprint edition.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/war-journal-of-the-fifth-kenya-battalion-the-kings-african-rifles-1939-1945/ ''War Journal Of The Fifth (Kenya) Battalion The King’s African Rifles 1939-1945''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> Begins with the campaign against the Italians in Abyssinia and ends fighting the Japanese in Burma.
*[https://archive.org/details/travelerstalemem0000cand/page/n9 ''A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India''] by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Life in India during the Second World War. The author’s husband was a metallurgist/chemical engineer who worked for the Inspectorate of Armaments in ordnance factories at [[Ishapore]] and Ambernath (Bombay Presidency) 1941-46, having been transferred from [[Hong Kong]].
===Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam===
*[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.
