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===Personal accounts===*The book ''Old Soldier Sahib'' by Frank Richards, "an excellent read", is about the early 1900s in India and Burma and is mentioned in this Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6187#p24669 thread]. First published in 1936, a reprint is available to purchase through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1843425580 FIBIS Shop]. Also available at the [[British Library]]*[http://www.newhavenpublishing.co.uk/publishing.html Details] of the book ''A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma: The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947'' by John Archibald Hislop, edited by Penny Kocher 2010. There is a review by Richard Morgan of ''A Soldier’s Story'' in ''FIBIS Journal Number 26 Autumn 2011'', page 52. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]]. The review may also be read in this [http://www.newhavenpublishing.co.uk/review.html link], along with other reviews. This book may be purchased online from the [http://shop.fibis.org/?wpsc-product=bkx-0139-a-soldiers-story FIBIS Shop]. *Joseph Robert Milner describes his time in Burma performing primarily clerical duties for the Army from December 1945 to 1947 from [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:KFT6z10X6pwJ:ronbaileyscarvings.com/armylife3.doc+Turkish+POWs+Deolali&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiSh0z7TSq6ps1Not2Bjig1XpLgiaT_jqmyQ1Gdxy7txbH0G2B-kj5T7gEqdfOpWPzLkfBBxLrFzdcbNjgnJp9Rx06W5C6obtKIAwlpF0K_wRFbETqG4Qd--AKma_n9WBb10Zr9&sig=AHIEtbRpAlapu5pvt9s3TWgqsgLf4zs88g page 17] of this document. He was posted by the British Army to a Unit in Rangoon known as AdvancereforsecSEAC ,or Advanced Reinforcement Section, South East Asia Command [http://ronbaileyscarvings.com/milner.htm ronbaileyscarvings.com]*"Browsing Through a Treasure House: The Literature of the Burma Campaign" by Gordon Graham. From the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2011 [http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668/1/BCML-W.G.Graham2011.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:v3O2SHEBrZ4J:eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668/1/BCML-W.G.Graham2011.pdf+bugles+and+a+tiger+pdf&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjcpygNipmoq8levYlMb8DDq_TBL24H3XW_NetZZK9HlFFiTSrJbCnb55Za10r95hqVV8Zp1Xf1pSDEeO7BfM_hssh7KzSJPsRkcol2hrKMm0NAADHqZlAXKaNYXtV5jWZFdGDG&sig=AHIEtbTDbBEJAjy1SEWsYQpG5KTAnIoUxA html version] [https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668 Abstract]
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*[[British Army]]
*[[Indian Army]]
===Trek Out of Burma in 1942===
==FIBIS resources==
*[[:Category:Burma images|Images of Burma]]
*FIBIS database:[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=class_detail&source_class=212 Burmese cemeteries] inscriptions and photographs
*"The Life of a Madras Artilleryman: The William Porter Letters" by Peter Bailey [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal Number 3 (Spring 2000'')]]. FIBIS members may read this article online.
Also refer ''Twentieth century impressions of Burma: its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources'' by Arnold Wright in [[Burma#Online books|Online books]] below
==Recommended Reading==
*The book ''Old Soldier Sahib'' by Frank Richards, is about the early 1900s in India and Burma and mentioned in [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Military_reading_list&action=edit§ion=3 Military reading list]. Further reviews can be read in this Victorian Wars Forum post and on [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6187#p24669 thread Victorian Wars forum blog ] and on [http://marksimner.me.uk/?page_id=550 Mark Simner's military history blog]. First published in 1936.
*[http://www.newhavenpublishing.co.uk/publishing.html Details] of the book ''A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma: The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947'' by John Archibald Hislop, edited by Penny Kocher 2010. There is a review by Richard Morgan of ''A Soldier’s Story'' in ''FIBIS Journal Number 26 Autumn 2011'', page 52. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]]. The review may also be read in this [http://www.newhavenpublishing.co.uk/review.html link], along with other reviews.
*[http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=hu170911Leaving.asp Burmese Prince Moung Lat was a British state prisoner in India for 54 years] during which time he married the daughter of an Australian widow. Tehelka.com
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2012/02/family-budgets-in-1920s-india.html Family budgets in 1920s India] by John O’Brien 27 February 2012 British Library Blog: Untold Lives: Sharing stories from the past. Includes a mention of Rangoon.
*Joseph Robert Milner describes his time in Burma performing primarily clerical duties for the Army from December 1945 to 1947 from [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:KFT6z10X6pwJ:ronbaileyscarvings.com/armylife3.doc+Turkish+POWs+Deolali&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiSh0z7TSq6ps1Not2Bjig1XpLgiaT_jqmyQ1Gdxy7txbH0G2B-kj5T7gEqdfOpWPzLkfBBxLrFzdcbNjgnJp9Rx06W5C6obtKIAwlpF0K_wRFbETqG4Qd--AKma_n9WBb10Zr9&sig=AHIEtbRpAlapu5pvt9s3TWgqsgLf4zs88g page 17] of this document. He was posted by the British Army to a Unit in Rangoon known as AdvancereforsecSEAC ,or Advanced Reinforcement Section, South East Asia Command [http://ronbaileyscarvings.com/milner.htm ronbaileyscarvings.com]
*"Browsing Through a Treasure House: The Literature of the Burma Campaign" by Gordon Graham. From the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2011 [http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668/1/BCML-W.G.Graham2011.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:v3O2SHEBrZ4J:eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668/1/BCML-W.G.Graham2011.pdf+bugles+and+a+tiger+pdf&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjcpygNipmoq8levYlMb8DDq_TBL24H3XW_NetZZK9HlFFiTSrJbCnb55Za10r95hqVV8Zp1Xf1pSDEeO7BfM_hssh7KzSJPsRkcol2hrKMm0NAADHqZlAXKaNYXtV5jWZFdGDG&sig=AHIEtbTDbBEJAjy1SEWsYQpG5KTAnIoUxA html version] [https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668 Abstract]
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