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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CFsyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ‪''Anglo-Burmese Hand-book: Or, Guide to a Practical Knowledge of the Burmese Language‬''] by Dormer Augustus Chase, Lieut. 64th Regiment Bengal N.I. and Officiating Assistant Commissioner T.P. 1852 Google Books [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2016/04/the-anglo-burmese-handbook.html "The Anglo-Burmese Handbook"] 28 April 2016 British Library Untold lives blog.
*[https://archive.org/details/myamma00unkngoog ''Myamma : a Retrospect of Life and Travel in Lower Burmah''] by Deputy Surgeon General C T Paske, [Charles Thomas], Late of the Bengal Army 1893 Archive.org. Also published with the title [https://archive.org/details/lifetravelinlowe00paskuoft ''Life and Travel in Lower Burmah, a Retrospect''] Archive.org. The author joined the Bengal Medical Service in August 1852, and was posted to Burma for about two years c 1853-1855, returned to India for four years, and was then reposted to Burma c 1859 for a few more years.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81537/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Dalhousie-Phayre Correspondence 1852-1856''] edited with Introduction and Notes by D G E Hall 1932 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Correspondence between Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of India and Captain Arthur Phayre, first British Commissioner of Pegu, and Governor-General’s Agent in the negotiations with the Court of Ava at the end of the 2nd Burma War.
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeofmissi00yulerich ''A Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855, with notices of the country, government, and people''] by Captain Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers 1858 Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sTxNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books version]
*Tenasserim Provinces , [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA685 page 685] ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore'' by Pharoah & Co 1855 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeofmissi00yulerich ''A Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855, with notices of the country, government, and people''] by Captain Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers 1858 Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sTxNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books version]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WJpeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Burmah, its people and natural productions; or, Notes on the nations, fauna, flora, and minerals of Tenasserim, Pegu, and Burmah, with systematic catalogues of the known mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, mollusks, crustaceans, annelids, radiates, plants, and minerals, with vernacular names''] by Rev F Mason 2nd edition 1860.
**The first edition is probably [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bg8YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''‪Tenasserim: Or, Notes on the Fauna, Flora, Minerals, and Nations of British Burmah and Pegu''‬] by Rev F Mason 1851 Google Books‬
*[https://archive.org/details/theraidersofarak0000unse/mode/2up ''The Raiders of Arakan''] by C. E. Lucas Phillips 1971. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The exploits of Denis Holmes and V Force during WW2.
*Also see [[Second World War#Historical books online|Second World War - Historical books online]].
* Editions of [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Journal+of+the+Burma+Research+Society%22%29&sort=date ''Journal of the Burma Research Society''] from Volume I 1911 to Volume XXII 1932. Archive.org.
*Many editions of the [http://archive.org/search.php?query=SOAS%20Bulletin%20of%20Burma%20Research%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research''] are available on Archive.org. The ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research ''offers current information on Burma research, activities, and resources at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, as well as information on international Burma research of relevance to Burma scholars in the United Kingdom.
**[http://www.archive.org/details/WilDijksReportOnTheTheArchivesOfTheDutchEastIndiaCompanyvocAs Wil Dijk's "Report on the Archives Of The Dutch East India Company (VOC) as they relate to Burma"] Published in the SOAS ''Bulletin of Burma Research'' 1.1 (Spring 2003). Archive.org
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