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** Some sample pages from [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=477224#forgottenfrontierbygeoffreytyson ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, first published 1945, may be downloaded as a pdf from the Koi-Hai website. This book may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from north Burma into India.
*[http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/trek-out-of-burma-1942.html Anglo-Burmese Library] - transcriptions and report. Also the list of internees.
*[http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=30 ''Exodus from Burma, 1941-42''; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji] amitavghosh.com. The author was appointed as Assistant to the Agent of the Government of India in Burma, and was subsequently in charge of arrangements for the refugees, predominantly Indian, trekking out of Burma. Scroll to the bottom of the page for Part 1.
*[http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010110101 The Elephant Man] is about the rescue of refugees by Gyles Mackrell , an Assam tea planter. He mounted an operation to save refugees who were trapped by flooded rivers at the border with India using the only means available to get them across - elephants. Includes YouTube film clip from the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge
*[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH40,67293 ''The story of Sam and Marg Acomb''] The War period commences page 28. In 1941 the author escaped from Thailand to Rangoon where he joined the Army in Burma Reserve of Officers. In 1942 he trekked for three weeks out of Burma to India. Subsequently he was assigned as Intelligence Officer in Dibrugahr Assam, Deolali, Ceylon and Bangkok(1944) until he was discharged in August 1946. BYU Digital Collections
