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Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilians0000kenn/page/n5 ''British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45''] by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/whensingaporefel00kenn/page/n5 ''When Singapore fell : Evacuations and Escapes, 1941-42''] by Joseph Kennedy 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/singaporepregnab0000elph_f4m9/mode/2up ''Singapore : the pregnable fortress : a study in deception, discord and desertion''] by Peter Elphick 1995. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/railwayman0000loma_e5v3/mode/2up ''The Railway Man''] by Eric Lomax 2014 first published 1995. A member of the Royal Signals, he became a POW at the fall of Singapore. Archive.org Books to Borrow Lending Library. This book was subsequently made into a film.
:[https://archive.org/details/burmarailwaymans0000best/mode/2up ''Burma Railway Man : secret letters from a Japanese POW : the remarkable record of Charles Steel, a Japanese POW''] by Brian Best 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow Lending Library. Steel was a Battery Sergeant Major, 135th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, who became a POW at the fall of Singapore.
*[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]
*[https://archive.org/details/defencefallofsin0000farr/mode/2up ''The Defence & Fall of Singapore 1940-1942''] by Brian P Farrell 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/fallofsingapore90000corf/mode/2up ''The Fall of Singapore : 90 days : November 1941-Feburary 1942''] by Justin Corfield and Robin Corfield 2012 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*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: [http://library.oapen.org/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.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190518172353/http://www.bannedthought.net/Britain/BritishImperialism/TheBritishInVietnam-GeorgeRosie-London-1970.pdf ''The British in Vietnam: how the twenty-five-year war began''] by George Rosie 1970 Archive.org. File may be slow to open.
:[https://archive.org/details/firstvietnamwar0000dunn ''The First Vietnam War''] by Peter M Dunn 1985. "A short, sharp conflict in the late summer and autumn of 1945…Immediately after the Japanese surrender, Saigon was occupied by British/Indian forces…" Archive.org Lending Library. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kurDWLZ1PZYC&pg=PR5 "Contents" and "Preface"] Google Books. Earlier PhD thesis [https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29525/ ''An interpretation of documentary and oral primary source materials for the period September 1945 until May 1946 in the region of Cochinchina and Southern Annam''] by Peter M Dunn 1979 SOAS University of London.
 
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* ''The Monastery''. Full title: ''The Monastery. An account of the assault of the Abbey of Monte Cassino in 1944'' by Fred Majdalany 1945. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523828 Archive.org version].
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