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*[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.
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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.
*[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.
*Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published the 102-volume ''Senshi Sōsho'' (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War.
:Volume 3 of the series:[https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=595090 ''The invasion of the Dutch East Indies''] edited and translated by Willem Remmelink 2015. The campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
: Volume 26 of the series: [https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1001546 ''The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal''] edited and translated by Willem Remmelink 2018. Describes the Japanese Navy’s role in the campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago. It includes the first complete Japanese analysis of the Battle of the Java Sea, a much-debated battle that ended disastrously for the Allies and opened the way to Java for the Japanese. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
: It is intended to translate as a final volume, volume 34 ''Army Air Drive to the Southern Pacific''. More details from [https://cortsstichtingen.nl/projects/senshi-sosho The Corts Foundation], a Dutch non profit organisation.
*[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.
*''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.
