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Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilians0000kenn/page/n5 ''British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45''] by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/whensingaporefel00kenn/page/n5 ''When Singapore fell : Evacuations and Escapes, 1941-42''] by Joseph Kennedy 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/railwayman0000loma_e5v3/mode/2up ''The Railway Man''] by Eric Lomax 2014 first published 1995. A member of the Royal Signals, he became a POW at the fall of Singapore. Archive.org Books to Borrow Lending Library. This book was subsequently made into a film.
:[https://archive.org/details/burmarailwaymans0000best/mode/2up ''Burma Railway Man : secret letters from a Japanese POW : the remarkable record of Charles Steel, a Japanese POW''] by Brian Best 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow Lending Library. Steel was a Battery Sergeant Major, 135th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, who became a POW at the fall of Singapore.
*[https://archive.org/details/singapore1942bri00warr ''Singapore, 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat''] by Alan Warren 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://www.academia.edu/12122226/Did_Singapore_Have_to_Fall_Churchill_and_the_Impregnable_Fortress ''Did Singapore Have to Fall? Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress''] by Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn 2004. academia.edu. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RfHQo4v2CkEC&pg=PP1 Sample pages: Google Books]
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