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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.150246''Defeat into Victory''] by Sir William Slim, 1956, about the Burma Campaign. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/unofficialhistor00slim/page/n5 ''Unofficial History''] by Field Marshal Sir William Slim 1962, first published 1959. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/unofficialhistor00slim/page/127 Chapters about WW2, Middle East] from page 127
:[https://archive.org/details/slimmasterofwarb0000lyma ''Slim, Master of War: Burma and the birth of modern warfare''] by Robert Lyman 2004. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/roadpastmandalay00mast ''The Road Past Mandalay''] by John Masters 1979. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. Earlier title: ''The Road Past Mandalay : a Personal Narrative''. First published 1961. 2nd volume of Autobiography. The short first part takes Masters and the 2/4th Ghurkas to Iraq and Syria. After a staff course back in India, the balance of the book concerns his time in Burma, with a Chindit Column. Also see the Fibiwiki page [[John Masters]].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528012 ''Burma Surgeon''] by Gordon S Seagrave Lieut. Colonel, MC. United States Army Forces in China, Burma, India. 1944. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/details/burmasurgeon00seag 1943 Archive.org Lending Library edition] has more pages and may be easier to read.
*[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/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
*[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.)
*[https://archive.org/details/sueztosingapore0000brow/page/n5 ''Suez to Singapore''] by Cecil Brown 1942. Archive.org 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127425 ''Singapore And After: A Study Of The Pacific Campaign''] 1942. The author is stated elsewhere to be Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi. Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/winstonswarchurc00hast_0/page/n7 ''Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945''] by Max Hastings 2010. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofsecondw00lidd ''History of the Second World War''] by B. H. Liddell Hart 1971 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia.
*''The Second World War : a Military History'' by Gordon Corrigan. [https://archive.org/details/secondworldwarmi0000corr 2010 London edition], [https://archive.org/details/secondworldwarmi0000corr_o7z3 2011 New York edition]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-ii-naval-staff-histories World War II Naval Staff Histories] Eight volumes including ''Naval Operations off Ceylon''. Admiralty publications. Website of the Royal Australian Navy.
:[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/hm-ships-damaged-or-sunk-enemy-action-wwii BR 1886 (C.B. 4273 (52) ''H.M. Ships Damaged or Sunk by Enemy Action 3 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945''] Based on reports held in the Admiralty at the time of its publication in 1952. A publication in the Navy Department: Reference Books (BR Series). Website of the Royal Australian Navy.
