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Historical books online
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/Tiger3/index.html ''The Tiger Triumphs: The Story of Three Great Divisions in Italy''] Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office for the Government of India 1946 "The Fourth, Eighth and Tenth Indian Divisions will forever be associated with the fighting for Cassino, the capture of Rome, the Arno Valley, the liberation of Florence and the breaking of the Gothic Line". Transcribed by Chris Gage ibiblio.org. Alternative version from [http://www.ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Tiger/triumphsTC.html ourstory.info] AFS [American Field Service]
* ''Eastern Epic Volume I'' 1951. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.113944 Archive.org version]. Full title: ''Eastern Epic Volume I September 1939 - March 1943 Defence'' by Sir Compton Mackenzie. "The story of India's efforts during the war" Includes the activities of Indian forces in the various theatres-North Africa, the Near East and Southeast Asia. Volume I appears to have been the only volume published.
*[https://archive.org/details/forgottenarmiesf00bayl/page/n5 ''Forgotten Armies : the Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945''] by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper 2005. Archive.org Lending Library.
*Nine short histories, from a series of at least eleven,<ref>[http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/short-online-histories.51379/ WW2Talk Forum thread] Short online Histories, category British Indian Army</ref> published under the authority of the Director of Public Relations, War Department , Government of India. All from Archive.org . Note that for these books, original pages have been filmed two to each digital page, and you may need to adjust settings to read all the pages. Select the single page viewing option.
**[https://archive.org/details/TheFightingFifthHistoryOfTheFifthDivision ''The Fighting Fifth - History Of The Fifth Division''] Abyssinia, Burma. Note text out of order. Pages 7-10 and some accompanying photographs follow page 38. [https://archive.org/stream/TheFightingFifthHistoryOfTheFifthDivision/The%20Fighting%20Fifth%20-%20History%20of%20the%20Fifth%20Division#page/n27/mode/1up Maps]
*[https://archive.org/details/stilwellpapers0000stil/page/n7 ''The Stilwell Papers''] by Joseph Warren Stilwell. Arranged and edited by Theodore H White. 1948. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[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/stilwellpatriotv00roon_0/page/n5 ''Stilwell the Patriot: Vinegar Joe, the Brits and Chiang Kai-Shek''] by David Rooney 2005. 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.2015.527352 ''Why Singapore Fell''] by Lieut Gen H. Gordon Bennett 1945. 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://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.
*''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilians0000kenn/page/n5 ''British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45''] by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[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.
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