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: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://archive.org/details/empiresinbalance00will ''Empires in the balance : Japanese and Allied Pacific strategies to April 1942''] by H P Willmott 1982
:[https://archive.org/details/greatcrusade00hpwi_0 ''The great crusade Great Crusade : a new complete history of the Second World War''] by H P Willmott first published 1989. A review quote on the front cover: "The best balanced one-volume history of the Second World War". [https://archive.org/details/greatcrusadenewc0000will_k8o7/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file].
:[https://archive.org/details/secondworldwarin0000will ''The Second World War in the Far East''] by H P Willmott 1999.
:[https://archive.org/details/worldwarii0000will/page/n5 ''World War II''] by H P Willmott, Charles Messenger, Robin Cross 2008, first published 2004 or prior.
:All Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/intelligencewara00rich ''Intelligence and the war against Japan : Britain, America and the politics of secret service''] by Richard J. Aldrich 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/retributionbattl00hast/mode/2up ''Retribution : the battle for Japan, 1944-45''] by Max Hastings 2008. UK title ''Nemesis: the battle for Japan, 1944-45''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library
:[https://archive.org/details/warillustratedco09hamm ''Volume 9 Victory May 1945- April 1946'' [Issues 206-230<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Both Archive.org Lending Library
:Also available on the pay website [[Findmypast]] as the searchable database [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/the-war-illustrated-1939-1947?SearchedRecordsetRegion=World&sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114 The War Illustrated 1939-1947] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Second World War. There appears to be a complete range of all editions. If browsing the various editions, not all pages may appear in the search results, however you can navigate from page to page when looking at the text, and it appears that all pages are available.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Second%20Great%20War%22%29 ''The Second Great War. A Standard History''] edited by Sir John Hammerton. Note, includes text of some historic documents which may not be readily available elsewhere. Links to nine volumes:[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.34717 Vol.1], [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.34718/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.2], [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.34719/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.3], [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.34721/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.4], most of which have poor quality scanned images[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.34722 Vol.5], and some have poor scanned text quality [https://archive.org/details/in addition. Two volumes which contain the best scanned images gov.ignca.34723 Vol.6], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernetgov.ignca.34724/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.7], [https://archive.org/details/dli.2015ernet.509471528423/page/n9 n3/mode/2up Vol 3.8] and , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509493/page/n7 Vol . 9], are however . [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Second+Great+War%22%29&sort=titleSorter&page=1 All digital files]. All Archive.org. Note Vol.9 looks somewhat confusing different to read online, as they have it has been divided into two and three files, respectively, which are shown in blue below the book reader bar at the foot of the book (as at 2019 June2020/12).
*''Purnell's History of the 20th Century'', in ten volumes, published 1971. WW2 period [https://archive.org/details/purnellshistoryo07newy/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 7], [https://archive.org/details/purnellshistoryo08newy/page/n9/mode/2up Volume 8]. ''20th Century'' published by Purnell Reference Books. 1979 revised edition in twenty volumes. Pre-WW2 period [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury07milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.7],[https://archive.org/details/20thcentury08milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.8], [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury09milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.9], [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury10milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.10], [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury11milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.11], [https://archive.org/details/20thcentury12milw/page/n7/mode/2up Vol.12] All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''The Second World War'' by Winston S Churchill
