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*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. During WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German SMS Emden and subsequently was a prisoner in Singapore at Tangling prison camp [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/94/mode/2up page 95], and helped ferment dissatisfaction which led to the 1915 Singapore Mutiny, during which he escaped and fled, initially to Sumatra.
*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/military_report_on_the_netherlands_possessions_in_the_east_indies_1919_0.pdf ''Military Report on the Netherlands’ Possessions in the East Indies''] Prepared by the General Staff, War Office 1919. Website of the Australian Army. This appears to be an internal British Army document which is marked Confidential.
*[https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=389234 ''The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918''] by Kees van Dijk 2007. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924062748995 ''A Manual of Netherlands India (Dutch East Indies)''] by Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO 1920. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/wherestrangetrai00powe/page/n9 ''Where the strange trails go down; Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits settlements, Malay states, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China''] by E Alexander Powell 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/portsofdutchindi00coolrich ''The Ports of the Dutch Indies''] by Wouter Cool 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandseasti00unit/page/n7 ''Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook''] by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org
*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35900 ''French View of the Netherlands Indies''] by G.H. Bousquet ; translated from the French by Philip E. Lilienthal 1940. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
*''Netherlands East Indies'' by Naval Intelligence Division 1944. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70084 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70085 Volume 2] Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*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/fouryearstilltom0000unse/page/n3 ''Four years till tomorrow : despair and hope in wartime Dutch East Indies : a collection of 26 eye witness stories''] edited by Sheri G Tromp 1999 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/pepperriceelepha00rick ''Pepper, Rice, and Elephants : a Southeast Asian journey from Celebes to Siam''] by Ruth Masters Rickover 1975 Archive.org Lending Library
