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Historical books online
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indian-cavalryman-by-guest-s-pdf/ ''Indian Cavalryman''] by Captain Freddie Guest, [Reginald Edwin Guest] 1959. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3146 Archive.org mirror version]
:Recommended by Peter Moore in [[Military reading list#Other|Military reading list]] who says "He saw active service in the North-West Frontier; Africa; China and was the first prisoner-of-war to escape from the Japanese in Hong Kong; ending the war as the Equitation Instructor at the Officer Cadet School in Bangalore”. His earlier book ''Escape From The Bloodied Sun'' was a more detailed account of his escape from Hong Kong when he was an officer in the Middlesex Regiment.
*[https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/26ce4e7c530ccd62a466d2d62b7884d6.pdf ''Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong. The Story of the British Military Hospital Hong Kong 1942-1945''] by Donald C Bowie ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 15 (1975) pages 150-290. From [https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkjo/home Hong Kong Journals online] hkjo.lib.hku.hk.
*[https://archive.org/details/lastinghonour00lind/mode/2up ''The Lasting Honour : the Fall of Hong Kong, 1941''] by Oliver Lindsay 1980, first published 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/atgoingdownofsun0000lind/page/n5/mode/2up ''At the Going Down of the Sun : Hong Kong and South-East Asia, 1941-1945''] by Oliver Lindsay 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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