China - Burma - India theater and the Indian Ocean, 1941-1945

Unit histories: Fronts and campaigns

Anonymous. Arakan Assignment: The Story of the 82nd West African Division. Delhi: PR Services West Africa, 1946

Anonymous. Black Cat Division: 17th Indian Division. New Delhi: War Department, Government of India

Anonymous. Dagger Division: Story of the 19th Indian Division. New Delhi: War Department, Government of India

Anonymous. The Fighting Fifth: The History of the 5th Indian Division. New Delhi: War Department, Government of India

Anonymous. Golden Arrow: The Story of the 7th Indian Division. New Delhi: War Department, Government of India

Anonymous. A Happy Family: The Story of the 20th Indian Division. New Delhi: War Department, Government of India

Anonymous. History of the 1st Battalion, the Sierra Leone Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force. Madras: N.P., 1945

Anonymous. History of the 3rd Battalion, the Gold Coast Regiment, RWAFF, in the Arakan Campaign, October 1944 - May 1945. Felixstowe: Premier Press

Anonymous. History of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), volume II: 1929-1947. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1956

Anonymous. History of the First Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment. Lincoln: Keyworth & Sons, 1949

Anonymous. Jungle Commando: The Story of the West African Expeditionary Force's First Campaign in Burma. N.P.: GHQ West Africa, 1945

Anonymous. Kaladan Return: The Second Campaign of the 81st West African Division. Delhi: PR Services West Africa, 1946

Anonymous. The Nigeria Regiment: Spearhead of Victory. Lagos: N.P., 1944

Anonymous. Royal Deccan Horse: Account of Operations in Burma, January to May 1945. Calcutta: Thacker's Press, 1946

Anonymous. The Story of the Twenty-Fifth Indian Division: The Arakan Campaign. New Delhi: War Department, Government of India

Anonymous. Tiger Head: The Story of the 26th Indian Division. New Delhi: War Department, Government of India, 1946

Anonymous. The Twenty-Third Indian Division: Burma - Malaya - Java. New Delhi: War Department, Government of India

Anonymous. West African Way: The Story of the Burma Campaign, 1943-1945. Obuasi, Ashanti: Ashanti Times Press, 1946

Aris, George. The Fifth British Division, 1939 to 1945. London: Fifth Division Benevolent Fund, 1959

Baggaley, James. The Chindit Story. London: Souvenir Press, 1954

Baker, Alan. Merrill's Marauders. New York: Ballantine, 1972

Barclay, C. N. The History of the Cameronians, vol 3: 1933-1946. London: Sifton Praed, 1947

Barclay, C. N. The History of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, 1919-1952. London: William Clowes and Sons Ltd, 1953

Bell, A.C. History of the Manchester Regiment: First and Second Battalions, 1922-1948. Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son, 1954

Birdwood, Lord. The Worcestershire Regiment, 1922-1950. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1952

Blaxland, Gregory. Buffs. London: Leo Cooper, 1972

Blight, Gordon. The History of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), 1920-1947. London: Staples Press, 1953

Brelsford, William Vernon (ed). The Story of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment. Lusaka, N. Rhodesia: Government Printer, 1954

Brett-James, Antony. Ball of Fire: The Fifth Indian Division in the Second World War. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1951

Bridge, T.D., George Kinnear, and Gerald Hanley. Rhino Review: The History of the East African Forces in the Burma Campaign. Calcutta: N.P., 1946

Burden, G.W.P.N. History of the East Lancashire Regiment in the War, 1939-1945. Manchester: H. Rawson and Co. Ltd., 1953

Calvert, Michael. Chindits. New York: Ballantine, 1973

Carmichael, Pat. Mountain Battery: Burma 1942. Bournemouth: Devin Books, 1983

Chaplin, H. D. The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 1920-1950. London: Michael Joseph, 1954

Clarke, E. B. S. and A. T. Tillot. From Kent to Kohima: The History of 4th Battalion, the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1951

Condon, W. E. H. The Frontier Force Regiment. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1962

Courcy, J. de and C.E.N. Lomax. The History of the Welch Regiment, 1919-1951. Cardiff: Western Mail and Echo Ltd, 1952

Cowper, J. M. The King's Own: The Story of a Royal Regiment, vol 3: 1914-1950. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1957

Cunliffe, Marcus. The History of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1919-1955. London: William Clowes, 1956

Davy, G. M. O. The Seventh and Three Enemies: The Story of World War II and the 7th Queen's Own Hussars. Cambridge: W Heffer & Sons, 1953

Delaforce, Patrick. Battles with Panzers: Monty's Tank Battalions, 1 RTR and 2 RTR at War. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2003

Doherty, Richard. Only the Enemy in Front. London: Tom Donovan Publishing, Ltd, 1994

Doulton, A. J. F. The Fighting Cock: Being the History of the 23rd Indian Division, 1942-1947. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1951

Draffan, William. A War Journal of the Fifth (Kenya) Battalion, the King's African Rifles. N.P.: N.P., 1946

Duncan, W. E. (ed). The Royal Artillery Commemoration Book, 1939-1945. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1950

Farndale, Martin. History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: The Far East Theatre, 1941-46. London: Brassey's Military Books (UK), 2000

Fergusson, Bernard. Black Watch and the King's Enemies. London: Collins, 1950

Foster, R. C. G. History of the Queen's Royal Regiment, vol 8: 1924-1948. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1953

Fox, Frank. The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the Second World War. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1951

Garforth-Bles, G.D. and S.D. Clarke. Now or Never: The Story of the 4th Battalion, the Madras Regiment in the Burma Campaign. Calcutta: Thacker's Press, 1945

Gates, L. C. (ed). History of the First Battalion the Lincolnshire Regiment in India, Arakan, Burma, and Sumatra. Lincoln: Keyworth and Sons, 1949

Grounds, Tom. Some Letters from Burma: Story of the 25th Dragoons in Burma. Tunbridg Wells: Parapress, 1994

Gunning, Hugh. Borderers in Battle: The War Story of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1939-1945. Berwick: Martin's Printing Works, 1948

Hamilton, John A. L. War Bush: 81st (West African) Division in Burma, 1943-1945. Norwich, UK: Michael Russell, 2001

Hanley, Gerald. Monsoon Victory. London: Collins, 1946

Hart, Peter. At the Sharp End: The 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment. Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 1998

Haywood, A. and F.A.S. Clarke. The History of the Royal West African Frontier Force. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1964

Hickey, Michael. The Unforgettable Army: Slim's XIVth Army in Burma. Staplehurst: Spellmount Ltd, 1994

Hopkins, James E. T. Spearhead: A Complete History of Merrill's Marauder Rangers. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Hunter, C. N. Galahad. San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company, 1963

Huxford, H.J. History of the 8th Gurkha Rifles. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1952

James, Richard Rhodes. Chindit. London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1980

Jervois, W.J. The History of the Northamptonshire Regiment, 1934-1948. Northampton: The Regimental History Commitee, 1953

Kemp, J. C. The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1919-1959. Glasgow: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1963

Kemp, P. K. The History of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, volume III: 1919-1951. Norwich, UK: Regimental Assn, 1953

Kemp, P. K. and John Graves. The Red Dragon: The Story of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1919-1945. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1960

King-Clark, Rex. Battle for Kohima: Narrative of the 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment. 1995

King-Clark, Rex. Forward from Kohima: A Burma Diary, November 1944 - May 1945. Knutsford, Cheshire: Fleur de Lys Publishers, 2003

Mackay, J. N. A History of 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles, volume III: 1938-1948. London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1952

Mackay, J. N. History of the 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, 1962

MacKenzie, J.W.E. Burma, 1945-1946: 3rd Battalion, the Northern Rhodesia Regiment. Lusaka: Government Printer, 1946

Maxwell, Robert M. Desperate Encounters: Stories of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles of the Punjab Frontier Force. Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1986

Miles, Wilfrid. The Life of a Regiment, vol 5: The Gordon Highlanders, 1919-1945. Aberdeen: The University Press, 1961

Molesworth, George. The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), 1919-1945. Frome, UK: Regimental Committee, Somerset Light Infantry, 1951

Monteith, Malcolm J.C. Ceylon to the Chindwin: 1st Battalion, the Northern Rhodesia Regiment. Lusaka: Government Printer, 1946

Moyse-Bartlett, H. The King's African Rifles: A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890-1945. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1956

Muir, Augustus. The First of Foot: The History of the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Edinburgh: Royal Scots History Committee, 1961

Neild, Eric. With Pegasus in India: The Story of 153 Gurkha Parachute Battalion. Nashville: Battery Press, 1990

Neville, J. E. H. The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle, vol 4: June 1944 - December 1945. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1954

Nicholson, W. N. The Suffolk Regiment, 1928-1946. Ipswich: The East Anglian Magazine, Ltd, 1948

Nightingale, P.R. A History of the East Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of York's Own) in the War of 1939-1945. York: William Sessions, 1952

Ogburn jr, Charlton. The Marauders. New York: Harper Brothers, 1959

Owen, Christopher. The Rhodesian African Rifles. Barnsley, UK: Leo Cooper/ Pen and Sword Books, 1970

Palsokar, R.D. The Bihar Warriors: A Historical Record of the Bihar Regiment, 1758-1986. Danapur: Bihar Regiment, 1986

Palsokar, R.D. History of the 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force). Bombay: 5th Gurkha Rifles, 1991

Proudfoot, C.L. History of the 16th Light Cavalry. Calcutta: N.P., 1976

Proudfoot, C.L. We Lead: 7th Cavalry, 1784-1990. New Delhi: Lancer Publishers, 1991

Qureshi, Mohammed. First Punjabis: History of the First Punjab Regiment, 1759-1956. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1958

Rawlinson, H.G. History of 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1948

Rhodes-Wood, E. H. War History of the Royal Pioneer Corps, 1939-1945. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1960

Roberts, M.R. Golden Arrow: The Story of the 7th Indian Division in the Second World War, 1939-1945. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1952

Routledge, N. W. History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, vol 4: Anti-Aircraft. London: Brassey's, 1994

Sandes, E. W. C. From Pyramid to Pagoda: The Story of the West Yorkshire Regiment in the war 1939-1945. London: Parsons, 1952

Shears, Philip J. The Story of the Border Regiment, 1939-1945. London: Nisbet & Co, 1948

Sheffield, O. F. The York and Lancaster Regiment, volume 3: 1919-1953. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1956

Sheil-Small, Denis. Green Shadows: A Gurkha Story. London: Kimber, 1982

Stevens, George R. The 9th Gurkha Rifles, volume II: 1937-1947. London: 9th Gurkha Rifles, 1953

Swynnerton, C. R. A. A Short History of the 1st (West African) Infantry Brigade in the Arakan, 1944-1945. Lagos: 1st West African Infantry Bde, 1949

Synge, W. A. T. Story of the Green Howards, 1939-1945. Green Howards, 1952

Taylor, Jeremy. The Devons: A History of the Devonshire Regiment, 1685-1945. Bristol: White Swan Press, 1951

Thorburn, Gordon. Jocks in the Jungle: The History of the Black Watch in India. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012

US Army. Merrill's Marauders (February-May 1944). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945

Warwick, Nigel W. M. Constant Vigilance: The RAF Regiment in the Burma Campaign. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2007

White jr, Gerald A. The Great SNAFU Fleet: 1st Combat Cargo/344th Airdrome/326th Troop Carrier Squadron in World War II's CBI Theater. Philadelphia: Gerald A. White, Jr, 2001

White, O. G. W. Straight on for Tokyo: The War History of the 2nd Battalion the Dorsetshire Regiment, 1939-1948. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1948

Y'Blood, William T. Air Commandos against Japan: Allied Special Operations in World War II Burma. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008

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