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*''The War in Malaya'' by Lt-Gen A E Percival 1949 is 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.
*''Prisoner of the Japs'' by Gwen Drew 1943. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015040804588?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.60006 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection]. The author was an American journalist who was taken prisoner at the fall of Hong Kong.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indian-cavalryman-by-guest-s-pdf/ ''Indian Cavalryman''] by Captain Freddie Guest, [Reginald Edwin Guest] 1959. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:Recommended by Peter Moore in [[Military reading list#Other|Military reading list]] who says "He saw active service in the North-West Frontier; Africa; China and was the first prisoner-of-war to escape from the Japanese in Hong Kong; ending the war as the Equitation Instructor at the Officer Cadet School in Bangalore”. His earlier book ''Escape From The Bloodied Sun'' was a more detailed account of his escape from Hong Kong when he was an officer in the Middlesex Regiment.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523828 ''The Monastery'']. Full title: ''The Monastery. An account of the assault of the Abbey of Monte Cassino in 1944'' by Fred Majdalany 1945. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523828 Archive.org version].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/119495 ''Neither Fear Nor Hope'']. Full title: ''Neither Fear nor Hope. The wartime career of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, defender of Cassino''. Translated by George Malcolm. 1963. The memoir of General Frido von Senger, first published in the German language in 1960 as ''Krieg in Europa''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.119495 Archive.org version].
