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====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.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160401152039/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, now archived.
*[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.
