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Despatches, Offical histories (UK)
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/londongazette.html Despatches Published in the ''London Gazette''] includes a number relating to Burma and South East Asia, in addition to the Middle East, North Africa, Malaya, etc. from "HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web", section "The United Kingdom in the Second World War". Pdfs of pages from ''The London Gazette''.
:'' The London Gazette'' [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/awards-and-accreditation/content/100325 World War 2 despatches]. Links to all the military despatches from commanders-in-chief. ''The Gazette'' website.
*The six volume series [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22The+Second+World+War+1939-1945.+A+Popular+Military+History%22&sort=date ''The Second World War 1939-1945. A Popular Military History''] published by His/Her Majesty’s Office 1950-1954 Archive.org.
:The series comprises : Ian Hay: ''Arms and the Men'' (1950); Eric Linklater: ''The Campaign in Italy'' (1951); Christopher Buckley: ''Norway. The Commandos. Dieppe'' (1951); Christopher Buckley: ''Greece and Crete 1941'' (1952); John North: ''North-West Europe 1944-45. The Achievement of 21st Army Group'' (1953); Christopher Buckley: ''Five Ventures. Iraq. Syria. Persia. Madagascar. Dodecanese'' (1954).
*''History of the Second World War'', subcategory United Kingdom Military Series: the 5 volume series ''War Against Japan'' by Major General S Woodburn Kirby et al, published London: HMSO, 1957-1969.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9OlmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The War Against Japan Volume I: The Loss of Singapore''] 1957. [https://archive.org/details/war-against-japan-vol-1 Archive.org version].
**[https://archive.org/details/civil-aff-mil-gov-nw-eu ''Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-West Europe, 1944-1946''] by F. S. V. Donnison 1961 HMSO. Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=01sDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Google Books].
**[https://archive.org/details/civil-aff-mil-gov-central-org ''Civil Affairs and Military Government: Central Organization and Planning''] by F. S. V. Donnison 1966 HMSO. Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=l8XRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Google Books].
*''History of the Second World War: United Kingdom Military Series''. Classified unofficially as part of an Intelligence series.
**[https://archive.org/details/soe-france-foot/page/n5/mode/2up ''SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940-1944''] by M R D Foot, 2nd edition with amendments 1968, first published 1966. HMSO. Archive.org.
*''History of the Second World War: United Kingdom Military Series. The War at Sea, 1939-1945'' by Captain S W Roskill RN. HMSO 1954-1961.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bedmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Volume I The Defensive''] to December 1941. Published 1954. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=IIfzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 File 2]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EIsGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 File 3]. [https://archive.org/details/worldat-sea-1939-1945-vol-1 Archive.org version, File 1].
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