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*The following are available on Archive.org in the Lending Library (Only one reader may read at any one time, and you may need to reserve the book if it is on loan) [https://archive.org/details/burmasurgeon00seag ''Burma Surgeon''] by Gordon S Seagrave Lieut. United States Army Forces in China, Burma, India. 1943, and [https://archive.org/details/burmasurgeonretu00seag ''Burma Surgeon Returns''] by Gordon S Seagrave MD 1946. These two books are also available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website - [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528012 ''Burma Surgeon'': Pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528012 Archive.org version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/238226 ''Burma Surgeon Returns'': Pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.238226 Archive.org version]. The missionary surgeon and his "Burmese Nurses". "Book one describes the walkout with Stilwell, who he calls "Uncle Joe" and their service for the refugees streaming out of Burma and with the Chinese army in India. Book two describes the return with the Chinese and American army while the Ledo Road is build and the north of Burma and the west of Yunnan are liberated and the combined Ledo Road & Burma Road are reopened"<ref>[http://www.tinyadventurestours.com/Eng/Destinations/BurmaRoad.html The Burma Road] tinyadventurestours.com</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.169015 ''Main Fleet To Singapore''] by Captain Russell Grenfell, R N. 1952. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
→Historical books online: Delete ''Main Fleet To Singapore'', file no longer available. Add new book. Reword details of a book .
*[https://archive.org/details/walkoutwithstilw00dorn ''Walkout : with Stilwell in Burma''] by Frank Dorn 1971 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinditwarstilwe00bidw ''The Chindit War : Stilwell, Wingate, and the Campaign in Burma, 1944''] by Shelford Bidwell 1980 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/quarteredsafeout00fras_0 ''Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma''] by George MacDonald Fraser 1993 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/QuarteredSafeOutHere Audio extracts] Archive.org, originally a BBC Radio Reading. He served in the Border Regiment. He was also the author of the ''Flashman'' series of novels. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald_Fraser George MacDonald Fraser] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66605 ''Burma And The Japanese Invader''] by Christian John Leroy 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175424 ''The War In Burma''] by Roy Mckelvie 1948. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.150246''Defeat into Victory''] by Sir William Slim, 1956, about the Burma Campaign. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/roadpastmandalay00mast ''The Road Past Mandalay''] by John Masters 1979. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. Earlier title: ''The Road Past Mandalay : a Personal Narrative''. First published 1961. 2nd volume of Autobiography. The short first part takes Masters and the 2/4th Ghurkas to Iraq and Syria. After a staff course back in India, the balance of the book concerns his time in Burma, with a Chindit Column. Also see the Fibiwiki page [[John Masters]].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528012 ''Burma Surgeon''] by Gordon S Seagrave Lieut. Colonel, MC. United States Army Forces in China, Burma, India. 1944. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/details/burmasurgeon00seag 1943 Archive.org Lending Library edition] has more pages and may be easier to read.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.238226 ''Burma Surgeon Returns''] by Gordon S Seagrave MD 1946. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/details/burmasurgeonretu00seag Archive.org Lending Library edition] - print quality may be better.
:The missionary surgeon and his "Burmese Nurses". "Book one describes the walkout with Stilwell, who he calls "Uncle Joe" and their service for the refugees streaming out of Burma and with the Chinese army in India. Book two describes the return with the Chinese and American army while the Ledo Road is build and the north of Burma and the west of Yunnan are liberated and the combined Ledo Road & Burma Road are reopened"<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160416000743/http://tinyadventurestours.com:80/Eng/Destinations/BurmaRoad.html The Burma Road] (scroll to the bottom) tinyadventurestours.com, now archived. For images, which are not available in this link, see an [https://web.archive.org/web/20150530205700/http://www.tinyadventurestours.com/Eng/Destinations/BurmaRoad.html earlier archived version]</ref>
*From [http://ourstory.info the field service] [American Field Service AFS]
**[http://ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Ball/fireTC.html#TC ''Ball Of Fire: The Fifth Indian Division in the Second World War''] by Antony Brett-James, 1951
*Text from ''Navvies To The Fourteenth Army'' by AH Pilcher c 1947 is available as pdf downloads from the Koi Hai website, located under [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=508961 Memories, the Henderson Family] Scroll down to the item dated October 12, 2009; the direct link for the [http://08.enable.com/fusion/getfile.asp?k:A6W:24:D1:11:8Dg:DC main text]. Note: Depending on your browser, you may need to locate the downloads in your downloads folder. The downloads do not contain the illustrations and maps from the original publication. The author was Col. A H Pilcher who at the outbreak of the second world war commanded the [[Assam Valley Light Horse]]. In March 1942 he was put in charge of raising a labour force from the Tea Plantations to build the Manipur/Burma Road to evacuate the 14th Army and also the many civilians who were fleeing Burma. Eventually he raised and commanded a labour force of 82000 <ref> Scroll down to comments section [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a2776340.shtml Jungle Work: A Civil Engineer in Burma] BBC ww2peopleswar</ref> This book (55 pages) was published in Calcutta for Private Circulation and was illustrated with black and white plates and line drawing maps. <ref> marelibri.com, page no longer accessible</ref> The [[British Library]] has a catalogue reference Mss Eur F174/1316, but it is not stated whether this is the printed book, or a manuscript. The book is available at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library, University of London.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/burmaunderthejap017803mbp ''Burma under the Japanese : Pictures and Portraits''] by Thakin Nu, Prime Minister of Burma. Edited and translated, with introduction, by J.S. Furnivall 1954 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127425 ''Singapore And After: A Study Of The Pacific Campaign''] 1942. The author is stated elsewhere to be Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi. Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143179 ''Why We Lost Singapore''] by Dorothy Crisp 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3394 ''Percival and the Tragedy of Singapore''] by Sir John Smyth 1971. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''': sample pages only.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2680 ''Malayan Postscript''] by Ian Morrison,1943. The Malayan jungle campaign and the disaster of Singapore. Pdf download, DSpace, National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''': Sample pages only
*''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.
*[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].
*[https://archive.org/details/firstvietnamwar0000dunn ''The First Vietnam War''] by Peter M Dunn 1985. "A short, sharp conflict in the late summer and autumn of 1945…Immediately after the Japanese surrender, Saigon was occupied by British/Indian forces…" Archive.org Lending Library. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kurDWLZ1PZYC&pg=PR5 "Contents" and "Preface"] Google Books. Earlier PhD thesis [https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29525/ ''An interpretation of documentary and oral primary source materials for the period September 1945 until May 1946 in the region of Cochinchina and Southern Annam''] by Peter M Dunn 1979 SOAS University of London.
*[https://archive.org/details/IanHay1951ArmyNursing ''One Hundred Years of Army Nursing : The Story of the British Army Nursing Service from the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day''] by John Hay Beith 1953 Archive.org. Contains chapters on WW2, including India and Burma.
