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*[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.)
→China, Burma, India
:[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/fareasttheatre190000farn/mode/2up ''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: The Far East Theatre, 1939-1946''] by General Sir Martin Farndale 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[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/roadpastmandalay0000mast ''The Road past Mandalay : a personal narrative''] by John Masters 1961. [https://archive.org/details/roadpastmandalay00mast 1979 reprint edition] Internet Archive (Archive.org) Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. 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/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 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://web.archive.org/web/20181011062612/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/ ''The History of the Royal West African Frontier Force''] by Colonel A. Haywood and Brigadier F.A.S.Clarke. 1964. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk, now archived at Archive.org. Originally required Flash turned on, this requirement still applies - you can only read the print version of this book if you still have Flash installed on your computer. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Transcribed version]. Includes operations in Burma.
