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Historical books online
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-where-china-meets-burma-life-and-travel-in-the-burma-china-border-lands-by-metford-s-pdf/ ''Where China Meets Burma. : Life and Travel in the Burma-China Border Lands''] by Beatrix Metford 1935. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. (If download does not display, located in Books/Tibet And China). A description of the book elsewhere indicates the author accompanied her husband, who was a British official. They lived for several years in the Shan States, Burma and then in Yunnan, southern China. From elsewhere, it appears she was the second wife of Stanley Wyatt-Smith of Britain's China Consular Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/bamboohospitalst00read/page/n3 ''Bamboo Hospital; the Story of a Missionary family in Burma''] by Katherine Read with Robert O Ballou 1961 Archive.org Lending Library. Albert Henderson, an American Baptist medical missionary and his wife Cora arrived in Burma in 1893, and worked in Mongnai and Taunggyi in the Shan States. Albert was in 1932 awarded a gold Kaiser-I -Hind medal and died in Burma in 1937.
*''Burma Police Manual'' 1985 reprint of [https://www.burmalibrary.org/sites/burmalibrary.org/files/obl/docs17/Police_Manual-Vol.1-ocr-bw-en.pdf Volume I 5th edition 1939], [https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs17/Police_Manual-Vol.2ocr-bw-en.pdf Volume II 5th edition 1940] burmalibrary.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PP1 ''Songs of The Survivors''], including the [http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PA7 Editor’s Preface] Google Books. Stories about the Goan community in Burma and the Trek of 1942
* ''Burma During Japanese Occupation Volume II'' 1944. A government Burma Intelligence Bureau report, published at Simla. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206262 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/burmaunderthejap017803mbp ''Burma under the Japanese : Pictures and Portraits''] by Thakin Nu, Prime Minister of Burma. Edited and translated, with introduction, by J.S. Furnivall 1954 Archive.org
* ''Burma'' by D G E Hall 1950. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57419 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57419/page/n7/mode/1up Contents].
*[https://archive.org/details/elephantbill0000will/page/n1/mode/2up ''Elephant Bill''] by Lt.-Col. J H Williams 1950. The author joined the Bombay Burma Corporation after the end of WW1. Includes [https://archive.org/details/elephantbill0000will/page/170/mode/2up Part II] page 171. The War years. In 1942 he helped escort a group of women and children on the Trek out of Burma and later, in October, he was appointed elephant adviser to the Eastern Army (later XIV the Army). Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [http://www.cbi-theater.com/elephants/elephants.html "Elephants at war"], by Philip Wynter ''Life'' April 10, 1944. In Burma, World War 2 from [http://www.cbi-theater.com/menu/cbi_home.html "China - Burma - India: Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II"].
*[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.
**[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
*''History of Services of Gazetted and other Officers serving under the Government of Burma July 1931 Vol I Part II'' . This Volume is titled ''Officers of Public Works Department''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91147 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''Burma'' by D G E Hall 1950. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57419 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57419/page/n7/mode/1up Contents].
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernb0000unse_b4j9/page/n5/mode/2up ''A History of Modern Burma''] by John F Cady Third printing 1965. [https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernb0000unse_h8r7/page/n5/mode/2up 1958] edition. Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/inlandwatertrans00rang ''Inland Water Transport Board (Irrawaddy Section)''], published July 1952 or later. Archive.org. Information - Passage regulations, schedules etc. Includes a
**[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/n82/mode/1up Map of the Irrawaddy River] facing page 43 with [https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/45/mode/2up "Alphabetical List of Stations"], page 45
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