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*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.353 ''The War in Malaya''] by Lieut.-General A E Percival, G O C Malaya 1941-1942. 1949. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available as a pdf download on the [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm Sejarah Melayu [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Library] located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list to T.
*[https://archive.org/details/sinistertwilight0000barb/page/n5 ''Sinister Twilight: the Fall and Rise Again of Singapore''] by Noel Barber 1968. [https://archive.org/details/sinistertwilight00barb/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Lending Library. WW2
*[https://archive.org/details/singaporebattlet0000leas/page/n7/mode/2up ''Singapore : the Battle that changed the world''] by James Leasor 1968. A book in ''The Crossroads of World History Series''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Events leading to the Fall of Singapore, including the historical background from the early 1800s.
*[https://archive.org/details/outinmiddaysunsi00caff ''Out in the Midday Sun; Singapore, 1941-45--The End of an Empire''] by Kate Caffrey 1973. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/singapore19411940000alle/page/n1/mode/2up ''Singapore, 1941-1942''] by Louis Allen 1979, first published 1977. A book in the series ''The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[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/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.
→Historical books online
* ''Life of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke, Colonel-Commandant of Royal Engineers'' edited by Col. RH Vetch 1905 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/lifeoflieutgener00vetc/page/118 "Governor of the Straits Settlements 1873-1875"] pages 119-192.
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinjungle02horn ''Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo''] by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist, US National Museum 1885 Archive.org. Contains a chapter on Singapore.
*''The Stranger's Guide to Singapore with Maps'' Compiled by B E D' Aranjo 1890. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034AD6 British Library Digital Collection], [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/d70f531e-aa4b-4129-95ac-7bbacc8f43e2.aspx BookSG] , [https://archive.org/details/strangers-guide-to-singapore/mode/2up Archive.org].
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034D64 ''Précis of information concerning the Straits Settlements and the Native States of the Malay Peninsula'']. Prepared in the Intelligence Division, Horse Guards, War Office, etc. 1891. With a [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034D64#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=189&z=0%2C-289.3696%2C2571%2C2533.7391 Map of Town of Singapore] (which can be rotated). British Library Digital file.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbooktosinga00reitgoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Handbook to Singapore with Map, and a Plan of the Botanical Gardens''] by George Murray Reith 1892 Archive.org
:For more details of this Mutiny on 15 February 1915, see [[5th Regiment of Bengal (Light) Infantry|5th Light Infantry]].
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/780/mode/2up "A Lady’s Experiences in the Singapore Mutiny"] page 781 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 198 July-December 1915. Archive.org. Also see previous entry.
*[https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East : being a revised and enlarged edition of "Oriental drainage", [Volume 1<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by C C James 1917, first published 1906 Archive.org. Includes chapters relating to Drainage of the major cities in India (Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, “Benares, Lucknow, Mirzapur and Lahore”), Rangoon, '''Singapore''', Penang and Shanghai, and of the major cities in Egypt. [https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0002/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East, Volume 2- Plans''] by C C James 1917 Archive.org
*''One hundred years of Singapore : being some account of the capital of the Straits Settlements from its foundation by Sir Stamford Raffles on the 6th February 1819 to the 6th February 1919''. Edited by Walter Makepeace, Dr Gilbert R Brooke. Roland St J Braddell 1921. [https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearso01braduoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearso02braduoft Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsiamtosuez010141mbp ''From Siam to Suez''] by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
*[https://archive.org/details/returntomalaya006324mbp ''Return to Malaya''] R.H.Bruce Lockhart 1936 Archive.org. The author had previously left Malaya c 1910. Also includes references to Singapore.
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean"] includes Malay Peninsula, page 176 ''First Year 1924, 2nd Edition''. HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193 "Asia"] page 193 ''1937 edition''. Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/oldmenforget011687mbp/page/n305/mode/2up "Singapore 1941-1942"], Chapter Eighteen, page 289 ''Old Men Forget: The Autobiography of Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich)'' 1954. Archive.org. Cooper was sent by Churchill, with Cabinet rank, "to enquire into the various forms of civil administration" and later, for a period was Resident Cabinet Minister authorised to form a War Council.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.154195 ''Bamboo Doctor''] by Stanley S. Pavillard 1960 Archive.org (from Digital Library of India). The author was newly arrived in Kedah when the Japanese attacked. He then became Medical Officer to the 1st SSVF and was subsequently a prisoner in Changi.
*For more books about Singapore during the Second World War, see [[Second World War#Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam|Second World War - Historical books online - Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam]]
*[https://archive.org/details/raffles00coll/page/n5 ''Raffles''] by Maurice Collis 1966 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/talesfromsouthch00alle ''Tales from the South China Seas : images of the British in South-East Asia in the twentieth century''] by Charles Allen 1984. Originally commissioned by, and broadcast on BBC Radio as oral history documentaries. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/travellerssingap0000unse/mode/2up ''Travellers' Singapore : an anthology''] compiled and introduced by John Bastin 1994. Extracts from writings from 1819 to 1942. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/forgottenarmiesf00bayl ''Forgotten Armies : the fall of British Asia, 1941-1945''] by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper 2005. Includes Singapore and Malaya. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/empiresendhistor00keay/page/n5/mode/2up ''Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong''] by John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/hd.htm CSCA: Source Documents on the Study of Christianity in Asia] Online books from CSCA [The Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia] Trinity Theological College, Singapore. There also seem to be a few books of a more general nature.
