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*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/megbur.html "Burma, 1942 and the Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Burmese Community"] by Megan Stuart Mills, 1999. Eighth edition of the ''International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies''.
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/581001.html "Retreat from Burma 1942: The Struggles through the Northern Passes"] by Harry Fecitt. “Harry’’s Sideshows” kaiserscross.com/
*[https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/icrc-archives/ ICRC Archives] in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has some records in respect of refugees from Burma. <ref>Milner, Rowland. [https://web.archive.org/web/20181102053930/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/15663356/ Family History Donald Mellican] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 04 September 1999. Retrieved 2 November 2018, now archived.</ref>
====Historical books online====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945. Archive.org. The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from north Burma into India.
*[http://ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Geren/diary.html ''Burma Diary''] by Paul Geren published 1943 In 1941 Paul Geren agreed to spend two years at Judson College in Rangoon, Burma, as a short-term missionary under the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Following the Japanese bombing Professor Geren's classroom became a field hospital as he offered his services as an ambulance driver to Dr. Gordon Seagrave, the famed Burma surgeon. He later trekked to India. From the website ourstory.info
*[https://archive.org/details/throughjungleofd0000broo ''Through the jungle of death : a boy's escape from wartime Burma''] by Stephen Brookes published 2000. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/flightbyelephant0000mart_q9k7 ''Flight by elephant : the untold story of World War Two's most daring jungle rescue''] by Andrew Martin 2013. [https://archive.org/details/flightbyelephant0000mart_u4u2/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Tea planter Gyles Mackrell mounted an epic rescue mission, with the aid of a herd of elephants and their mahouts.
==Railways and Tramways==
*[[Irrawaddy Valley State Railway]] from 1877 until 1896
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/24356 ''Silk in Burma''] by J P Hardiman 1901
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25625 ''Silverwork of Burma with photographs by P. Klier''] by Harry L Tilly 1902
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25626 ''Wood-carving of Burma, with photographs by P Klier''] by Harry L Tilly 1903. Also available [https://archive.org/details/WoodCarvingOfBurma1903 Archive.org]
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/22573 ''Monograph on Iron and Steel Work in Burma''] by E N Bell (cataloged as Bett) 1907. Also available [https://archive.org/details/MonographIronSteelBurma Archive.org]
*''Burma under British Rule - and Before'' by John Nisbet, late Conservator of Forests, Burma. 1901 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/burmaunderbritis01nisb Volume I] Missing Map. [https://archive.org/details/burmaunderbritis02nisb Volume II], [https://archive.org/stream/burmaunderbritis02nisb#page/442/mode/2up Index], page 443, Vol. II.
*''Burmese Days'' a novel by George Orwell, first published 1934. The author’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair and the novel is based on his experiences in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. Orwell was stationed from December 1926 to June 1927 in the northern town of [[Katha]], on which the fictional town of Kyauktada in Upper Burma in the novel is based. For online book links, see [[George Orwell]].
* See [[Cecil Champain Lowis]]. Lowis was a member of the Indian Civil Service in Burma until 1912, who wrote more than a dozen novels set in Burma, from 1899 until 1936.
*[https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_o4g1/mode/2up ''The Glass Palace : a novel''] by Amitav Ghosh 2001. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Palace The Glass Palace] Wikipedia. The story begins story in Mandalay (Burma) in 1885, during the last days of the Konbaung Dynasty, during the [[3rd Burma War]].
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