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*[http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/trek-out-of-burma-1942.html Anglo-Burmese Library] - transcriptions and report. Also the list of internees.
*''Exodus from Burma, 1941-42''; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=30&paged=2 Parts 1 and 2] , scroll down for Part 1, [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=30 Parts 3-12] in reverse order, scroll to the bottom for Part 3. 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.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/41/a3338741.shtml "Burma before the Japanese Invasion"] and [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/04/a3338804.shtml "Diary of the Trek out of Burma 1942"] by Jose Johnson with an earlier memoir [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/16/a3335816.shtml "My Journey to Burma 1940 by Flying Boat"] bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
*[http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-elephant-man 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. website of Cambridge University.
*Listen to a [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9661000/9661140.stm radio interview] with Felicity Goodall, author of ''Exodus Burma''. news.bbc.co.uk. Today,Tuesday, 13 December 2011. [http://felicitygoodall.wordpress.com/books/exodus-burma Details] of ''Exodus Burma, the British Escape Through the Jungles of Death 1942'' by Felicity Goodall 2011.
