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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143179 ''Why We Lost Singapore''] by Dorothy Crisp 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.353 ''The War in Malaya''] by Lieut.-General A E Percival, G O C Malaya 1941-1942. 1949. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/sinistertwilight00barb/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Sinister Twilight. The Fall of Singapore, 1942''] by Noel Barber 1968. Also published under the title [https://archive.org/details/sinistertwilight0000barb/page/n5/mode/2up ''Sinister Twilight. The Fall and Rise Again of Singapore''] by Noel Barber 1969. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*[https://archive.org/details/singaporebattlet0000leas/page/n7/mode/2up ''Singapore : the Battle that changed the world''] by James Leasor 1968. A book in ''The Crossroads of World History Series''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Events leading to the Fall of Singapore, including the historical background from the early 1800s.
*[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. Searchable but not viewable [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000493177 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with participating University Access.
*[https://archive.org/details/outinmiddaysunsi00caff ''Out in the Midday Sun; Singapore, 1941-45--the End of an Empire''] by Kate Caffrey 1973. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/singapore19411940000alle/page/n1/mode/2up ''Singapore, 1941-1942''] by Louis Allen 1979, first published 1977. A book in the series ''The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/battleshiplossof0000midd/page/n7/mode/2up ''Battleship : the loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse''] by Martin Middlebrook and Patrick Mahoney 1977. Archive.org Books to Borrow
*[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.
:[https://archive.org/details/whensingaporefel00kenn/page/n5 ''When Singapore fell : Evacuations and Escapes, 1941-42''] by Joseph Kennedy 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/oddmanoutstoryof0000elph/mode/2up ''Odd Man Out : the Story of the Singapore Traitor''] by Peter Elphick and Michael Smith 1993. Archive.org Books to Borrow:[https://archive.org/details/singaporepregnab0000elph_f4m9/mode/2up ''Singapore : the pregnable fortress Pregnable Fortress : a study Study in deceptionDeception, discord Discord and desertionDesertion''] by Peter Elphick 1995. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. :[https://archive.org/details/fareasternfilein0000elph/mode/2up ''Far Eastern File : The Intelligence War in the Far East, 1930-1945''] by Peter Elphick 1998, first published 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow
*[https://archive.org/details/railwayman0000loma_e5v3/mode/2up ''The Railway Man''] by Eric Lomax 2014 first published 1995. A member of the Royal Signals, he became a POW at the fall of Singapore. Archive.org Books to Borrow Lending Library. This book was subsequently made into a film.
:[https://archive.org/details/burmarailwaymans0000best/mode/2up ''Burma Railway Man : secret letters from a Japanese POW : the remarkable record of Charles Steel, a Japanese POW''] by Brian Best 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow Lending Library. Steel was a Battery Sergeant Major, 135th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, who became a POW at the fall of Singapore.
*[https://www.academia.edu/12122226/Did_Singapore_Have_to_Fall_Churchill_and_the_Impregnable_Fortress ''Did Singapore Have to Fall? Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress''] by Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn 2004. academia.edu. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RfHQo4v2CkEC&pg=PP1 Sample pages: Google Books]
*[https://archive.org/details/singaporeburning0000smit/mode/2up ''Singapore Burning : Heroism and Surrender in World War II''] by Colin Smith 2005. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/battleforsingapo0000thom ''The battle for Singapore : the true story of Britain's greatest military disaster''] by Peter Thompson 2005. Archive.org Books to Borrow
*[https://archive.org/details/defencefallofsin0000farr/mode/2up ''The Defence & Fall of Singapore 1940-1942''] by Brian P Farrell 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/fallofsingapore90000corf/mode/2up ''The Fall of Singapore : 90 days : November 1941-Feburary 1942''] by Justin Corfield and Robin Corfield 2012 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/intelligencewara00rich ''Intelligence and the war against Japan : Britain, America and the politics of secret service''] by Richard J. Aldrich 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/retributionbattl00hast/mode/2up ''Retribution : the battle for Japan, 1944-45''] by Max Hastings 2008. UK title ''Nemesis: the battle for Japan, 1944-45''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190518172353/http://www.bannedthought.net/Britain/BritishImperialismdetails/TheBritishInVietnambritish-GeorgeRosievietnam-London-1970.pdf rosie ''The British in Vietnam: how the twenty-five-year war began''] by George Rosie 1970 Archive.org. File may be slow to open.
:[https://archive.org/details/firstvietnamwar0000dunn ''The First Vietnam War''] by Peter M Dunn 1985. "A short, sharp conflict in the late summer and autumn of 1945…Immediately after the Japanese surrender, Saigon was occupied by British/Indian forces…" Archive.org Lending Library. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kurDWLZ1PZYC&pg=PR5 "Contents" and "Preface"] Google Books. Earlier PhD thesis [https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29525/ ''An interpretation of documentary and oral primary source materials for the period September 1945 until May 1946 in the region of Cochinchina and Southern Annam''] by Peter M Dunn 1979 SOAS University of London.
