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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://ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Geren/diary.html ''Burma Diary''] by Paul Geren published 1943 In 1941 Paul Geren agreed to spend two years at Judson College in Rangoon, Burma, as a short-term missionary under the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Following the Japanese bombing Professor Geren's classroom became a field hospital as he offered his services as an ambulance driver to Dr. Gordon Seagrave, the famed Burma surgeon. He later trekked to India. From the website ourstory.info
→Trek Out of Burma in 1942
Following the Japanese bombing in 1942, half a million refugees attempted to walk to India. Many died.
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485079 Koi-Hai website]
*[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.dadinani.com/capture-memories/read-contributions/the-unforgettable/93-barefoot-from-burma-to-india-1942-by-benegal-dinker-rao "Barefoot from Burma to India, 1942"] by Benegal Dinker Rao, born 1917 in Rangoon, an employee of the Government of Burma. A nephew Arvind Benegal, is the author of the first part, based on his uncle’s oral accounts.
*[http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=432 "Exodus from Burma"] by Krishnan Gurumurthy, aged 9 in 1942. His father was employed in the Burma Railways and was one of the many Indian working in Burma. amitavghosh.com
*[https://www.spink.com/lot-description.aspx?id=1300112 Account of Capt. G.J. Stapleton. I.A., Burma Frontier Force: Retreat from Myitkyina] 1942 . He was awarded the King´s Police and Fire Service Medal, for Gallantry. spink.com 25 Apr 2013
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/megbur.html "Burma, 1942 and the Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Burmese Community"] by Megan Stuart Mills, 1999. Eighth edition of the ''International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies''.
*[https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/icrc-archives/ ICRC Archives] in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has some records in respect of refugees from Burma. <ref>Milner, Rowland [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-09/0936457211 Family History Donald Mellican] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 04 September 1999. Retrieved 20 January 2015</ref>
====Historical books online====
*''Forgotten Frontier'' by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945, may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, including as a [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/528129 pdf download]. 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://ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Geren/diary.html ''Burma Diary''] by Paul Geren published 1943 In 1941 Paul Geren agreed to spend two years at Judson College in Rangoon, Burma, as a short-term missionary under the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Following the Japanese bombing Professor Geren's classroom became a field hospital as he offered his services as an ambulance driver to Dr. Gordon Seagrave, the famed Burma surgeon. He later trekked to India. From the website ourstory.info
==Railways==
