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*[https://archive.org/details/singapore1942bri00warr ''Singapore, 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat''] by Alan Warren 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://www.academia.edu/12122226/Did_Singapore_Have_to_Fall_Churchill_and_the_Impregnable_Fortress ''Did Singapore Have to Fall? Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress''] by Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn 2004. academia.edu. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RfHQo4v2CkEC&pg=PP1 Sample pages: Google Books]
*Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published the 102-volume ''Senshi Sōsho'' (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War.The three volumes relating to Indonesia have been translated into English, funded by the Corts Foundation. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210703030125/https://www.cortsfoundation.org/about-us/projects/senshi-sosho "Senshi Sōsho"] a page from The Corts Foundation, archived. (The Corts Foundation, a Dutch non profit organisation, following the 3rd publication has decided to conclude the activities as an autonomous foundation and is transferring its activities to the new ‘Philippus Corts Fonds’, now part of 'The Learned Society /[https://www.verenigingkitlv.nl KITLV]'. Leiden):Volume 3 of the series:[httpshttp://wwwlibrary.oapen.org/search?identifier=595090 handle/20.500.12657/32880 ''The invasion of the Dutch East Indies''] edited and translated by Willem Remmelink 2015. The campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago. ''Open Access'' oapen.org. : Volume 26 of the series: [httpshttp://wwwlibrary.oapen.org/search?identifier=1001546 handle/20.500.12657/28411 ''The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal''] edited and translated by Willem Remmelink 2018. Describes the Japanese Navy’s role in the campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago. It includes the first complete Japanese analysis of the Battle of the Java Sea, a much-debated battle that ended disastrously for the Allies and opened the way to Java for the Japanese. ''Open Access'' oapen.org. : It is intended to translate as a final volume, volume Volume 34 ''Army Air Drive to of the Southern Pacific''. More details from series: [https://wwwlibrary.cortsfoundationoapen.org/about-ushandle/projects20.500.12657/senshi-sosho 48379 ''The Corts FoundationInvasion of the South: Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Northern and Central Sumatra''], edited and translated by a Dutch non profit organisationWillem Remmelink 2021. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
*''Prisoner of the Japs'' by Gwen Drew 1943. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015040804588?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.60006 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection]. The author was an American journalist who was taken prisoner at the fall of Hong Kong.
*[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]
:[https://archive.org/details/chieffieldmarsha00lewi/mode/2up ''The Chief : Field Marshal Lord Wavell, Commander-in-Chief and Viceroy, 1939-1947''] by Ronald Lewin 1980 [https://archive.org/details/chief00rona File 2], [https://archive.org/details/chieffieldmarsha0000lewi/mode/2up File 3] Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/crucibleofwar00pitt/mode/2up ''The Crucible of War: Volume I Wavell’s Command''] by Barrie Pitt 2001. Additional wording on cover ''The definitive history of the Desert War''. Published in three volumes 2001, first published in two volumes 1980 and 1982 with titles ''Crucible of War : Western Dessert 1941'' and ''The Crucible of War: Year of Alamein 1942''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:''The Crucible of War: Volume II Auchinleck's Command'' not available online, but available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006723011. Editions, all catalogued 1980, are available on HathiTrust Digital Library, University access searchable only.
:[https://archive.org/details/crucibleofwarmon00barr/mode/2up ''The Crucible of War: Volume III Montgomery and Alamein''] by Barrie Pitt 2001, first published in two volumes 1980 and 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/churchillsgenera00keeg/mode/2up ''Churchill's Generals''] Edited by John Keegan 1991. Multiple authors. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*''Documents On British Foreign Policy 1919-1939 - Third Series'' published by HMSO from 1949. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275035 Volume I 1938], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276399 Volume II 1938],[https://archive.org/details/DocumentsOnBritishForeignPolicy1919-1939-ThirdSeriesVolumeVi1939_182 Volume VI 1939], [https://archive.org/details/DocumentsOnBritishForeignPolicy1919-1939-ThirdSeriesVolumeVi1939 Volume VII 1939], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.117700 Volume VIII 1938-39] Archive.org, including some from the Digital Library of India Collection. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000059524 HathiTrust Digital Library editions ''I-X Third Series'', and earlier series] viewable in some areas such as UK, but probably not USA. Volumes VIII is the first of two volumes relating to British policy in the Far East, the earlier volumes relating to European affairs. Volume X is an index for the series.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20190131182335/http://diplomatic-documents.org/editions/united-kingdom Contents of the volumes] diplomatic-documents.org, now an archived webpage.
:HathiTrust editions possibly may not be viewable in regions such as North America: [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068926198?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 Vol. 8] ''Policy in the Far East; attitude of H.M.G. towards the Sino-Japanese conflict; interaction of events in the Far East and Western Europe, August 1938 - April 1939'' (1955). [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068926198?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 Contents]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068926206?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 Vol. 9] ''Policy in the Far East during the five months preceding the outbreak of war in Europe, April - September 1939'' (1955). [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068926206?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Contents]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011885749?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 Vol.10] ''Index'' [to Third Series] (1961) [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011885749?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Contents]. *[https://archive.org/details/britishempiresec0000jack/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Empire and the Second World War''] by Ashley Jackson 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
===Fiction===
*[https://archive.org/details/jacarandatree00bate ''The Jacaranda Tree''] by H E Bates 1949. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Describes the escape from Burma of a small group of British and Burmese civilians from the invading Japanese.
