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* ''Wingate's Raiders. An Account of the Incredible Adventure that Raised the Curtain on the Battle for Burma'' by Charles J Rolo , first published 1944. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66623 Archive.org version]
* ''With Wingate In Burma'' by David Halley 1945. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81160 Archive.org version]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.524260 ''Beyond the Chindwin, Being an Account of the Adventures of Number Five Column of the Wingate Expedition into Burma in 1943''] by Bernard Fergusson 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. (Note, catalogued under a different title)
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208924 ''Chindit Column 76''] by W.A. Wilcox 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143039 ''Wrath In Burma''] by Fred Eldridge 1946. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Full title: ''Wrath in Burma : the uncensored story of General Stilwell and international maneuvers in the Far East''.
*Text from ''Navvies To The Fourteenth Army'' by AH Pilcher c 1947 is available as pdf downloads from the Koi Hai website, located under [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=508961 Memories, the Henderson Family] Scroll down to the item dated October 12, 2009; the direct link for the [http://08.enable.com/fusion/getfile.asp?k:A6W:24:D1:11:8Dg:DC main text]. Note: Depending on your browser, you may need to locate the downloads in your downloads folder. [https://archive.org/details/0-title-navvies/0TitleNavvies/ Archive.org mirror version]. The downloads do not contain the illustrations and maps from the original publication. The author was Col. A H Pilcher who at the outbreak of the second world war commanded the [[Assam Valley Light Horse]]. In March 1942 he was put in charge of raising a labour force from the Tea Plantations to build the Manipur/Burma Road to evacuate the 14th Army and also the many civilians who were fleeing Burma. Eventually he raised and commanded a labour force of 82000 <ref> Scroll down to comments section [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a2776340.shtml Jungle Work: A Civil Engineer in Burma] BBC ww2peopleswar</ref> This book (55 pages) was published in Calcutta for Private Circulation and was illustrated with black and white plates and line drawing maps. <ref> marelibri.com, page no longer accessible</ref> The [[British Library]] has a catalogue reference Mss Eur F174/1316, but it is not stated whether this is the printed book, or a manuscript. The book is available at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library, University of London.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. 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://archive.org/details/elephantbill0000will/page/170/mode/2up Part II] The War years. Page 171 ''Elephant Bill'' by Lt.-Col. J H Williams 1950. In 1942 he helped escort a group of women and children on the Trek out of Burma and later, in October, he was appointed elephant adviser to the Eastern Army (later XIV the XIVth Army). Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [http://www.cbi-theater.com/elephants/elephants.html "Elephants at war"], by Philip Wynter ''Life'' April 10, 1944. In Burma, World War 2 from [http://www.cbi-theater.com/menu/cbi_home.html "China - Burma - India: Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II"]
*[https://archive.org/details/burmaunderthejap017803mbp ''Burma under the Japanese : Pictures and Portraits''] by Thakin Nu, Prime Minister of Burma. Edited and translated, with introduction, by J.S. Furnivall 1954 Archive.org
*''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://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]].
*[https://archive.org/details/codebreakerinfar0000stri/mode/2up ''Codebreaker in the Far East''] by Alan Stripp 1889. A volume in the ''Cass Series: Studies in Intelligence''. Archive.org Books to Borrow
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