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* ''The March On Delhi'' by A J Barker 1963. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.119329 Archive.org version]. The title refers to Japanese plans for a "march on Delhi", following March 1944 when the 15th Japanese Imperial Army, supported by forces of the Indian National Army, crossed the Chindwin to invade India. Includes material supplied by Japanese commanders. The author served as an army air liaison officer during the siege of Imphal.
*[https://archive.org/details/ImphalFlowerOnLoftyHeights ''Imphal: A Flower On Lofty Heights''] by Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey Evans and Antony Brett-James 1962 Archive.org. 1944 Battle.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149175/page/n3 ''The Siege. A Story From Kohima''] by Arthur Campbell. First published 1956. Archive.org. Appears to be a reprint edition, with some incorrect date references to the action in 1914, not 1944, and date of first publication is incorrectly advised to be 1916, not 1956. The author’s Preface states "Although the story is true and the incidents I describe actually took place, they may not have occurred exactly as I describe them".*[https://archive.org/details/kohima0000swin/page/n5 ''Kohima''] by Arthur Swinson 1966 Archive.org Lending Library. *[https://archive.org/details/OspreyCampaign229Kohima1944TheBattleThatSavedIndia ''Kohima 1944 - The BattleThat Saved India''] by Robert Layman. Illustrations by Peter Dennis 2010. Archive.org.
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/CBI/index.html#burma-def Hyperwar: CBI Theater of Operations] from "HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web".
:[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/index.html Hyperwar: Scroll to The China-Burma-India Theater] "Hyperwar: US Army in World War II"
*''Documents On British Foreign Policy 1919-1939 - Third Series'' published by HMSO from 1949. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275035 Volume I 1938], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276399 Volume II 1938],[https://archive.org/details/DocumentsOnBritishForeignPolicy1919-1939-ThirdSeriesVolumeVi1939_182 Volume VI 1939], [https://archive.org/details/DocumentsOnBritishForeignPolicy1919-1939-ThirdSeriesVolumeVi1939 Volume VII 1939], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.117700 Volume VIII 1938-39] Archive.org, including some from the Digital Library of India Collection. Volumes VIII is the first of two volumes relating to British policy in the Far East, the earlier volumes relating to European affairs. Volume X, not available online, is an index for the series. [http://diplomatic-documents.org/editions/united-kingdom Contents of the volumes] diplomatic-documents.org
===Fiction===
*[https://archive.org/details/jacarandatree00bate ''The Jacaranda Tree''] by H E Bates 1949. Archive.org Lending Library. Describes the escape from Burma of a small group of British and Burmese civilians from the invading Japanese.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.16163 ''Biggles Sees It Through''] by Captain W E Johns 1941 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. For younger readers.
