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Further Reading |
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The books have been grouped according to which of the
campaigns they relate to. They are then further divided by author types,
Official Histories, War Correspondents, Military Historians and Chindit
Veterans. Books by Chindit veterans are further grouped under the brigade
and unit they
served with. |
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| 1943 and 1944 Campaigns |
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Official Histories |
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Kirby, Maj.Gen. S. Woodburn (1961) 'The War Against Japan' Vol. II and
III, History of the Second World War (HMSO) |
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Prasad, S.N. et al (1958) 'Reconquest of Burma' Vol. I, Official
History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War |
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Military Historians |
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Rooney, David (1994) 'Wingate and the Chindits - Redressing the
Balance' |
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Chinnery, Philip (1997) 'March or Die - The Story of Wingate's
Chindits' |
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| 1943 Campaign |
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War Correspondents |
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Burchett, W.G. (1944) 'Wingate's Phantom Army' |
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Rolo, Charles J. (1944) 'Wingate's Raiders' |
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Halley, David (1944) 'With Wingate in Burma'
(covers King's (Liverpool) Regiment, 8 Column) |
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| Books by Chindit
Veterans |
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| 1943 / 77 Brigade / 3 Column |
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James, Harold (1993) 'Across the Threshold of Battle' |
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| 1943 / 77 Brigade / 5 Column |
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Fergusson, Bernard (1945) 'Beyond the Chindwin' |
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Stibbe, Philip (1994) 'Return via Rangoon' |
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| 1943 / 77 Brigade / 1 and 2 Columns |
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MacHorton, Ian (1958) 'Safer than a Know Way' |
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Painter, Robin (1990) 'A Signal Honour - With the Chindits and XIV
Army in Burma' |
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| 1944 Campaign |
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Military Historians |
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Bidwell, Shelford (1979) 'The Chindit War - The Campaign in Burma
1944' |
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Thomas, Lowell (1952) 'Back to Mandalay' |
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| Books by Chindit Veterans |
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| 1944 Campaign |
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Mead, Lieut.-Colonel. P.W. (1955) 'The Chindit Operations of 1944',
article from R.U.S.I. Journal May 1995. |
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| 1944 / HQ |
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Tulloch, Major-General Derek (1972) 'Wingate in Peace and War' |
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Mead, Peter (1987) 'Orde Wingate and the Historians' |
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| 1944 / 3rd West African Brigade / 7 Bn
Nigeria Regiment |
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Carfrae, Charles (1985) 'Chindit Column' |
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| 1944 / 3rd West African Brigade / 12 Bn Nigeria
Regiment |
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Shaw, James (1953) 'The March Out - The End of the Chindit Operation' |
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Shaw, Jesse (1986) 'Special Force - A Chindit's Story' |
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| 1944 / 14 Brigade / 2 Bn The Black Watch |
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Cochrane, Stewart and William (2000) 'Chindit' |
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| 1944 / 16 Brigade |
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Fergusson, Bernard (1946) ' The Wild Green Earth' |
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| 1944 / 16 Brigade / 45th Reconnaissance
Regiment |
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Sharp, Phil (1995) ' To be a Chindit' |
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| 1944 / 16 Brigade / 2 Bn Queen's Royal Regiment |
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The Queens Royal Surrey Regiment Museum (1991) 'The Queen's in Burma' |
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| 1944 / 23 Brigade / 2 Bn Duke of
Wellington's Regiment |
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Wilcox, W.A. (1945) 'Chindit Column 76' |
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| 1944 / 77 Brigade |
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Calvert, Michael (1952) 'Prisoners of Hope' |
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Calvert, Michael (1973) 'Chindits - Long Range Penetration' |
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| 1944 / 77 Brigade / 1st Bn Lancashire
Fusiliers |
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Jeffrey W.F. (1950) 'Sunbeams Like Swords' |
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| 1944 / 77 Brigade / 3 Bn 9th Gurkha Rifles |
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Towill, Bill (2000) 'A Chindit's Chronicle' |
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| 1944 / 111 Brigade |
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Masters, John (1961) 'The Road Past Mandalay' |
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James, Richard Rhodes (1980) 'Chindit' |
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| 1944 / Morris Force / 4 Bn 9th Gurkha
Rifles |
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O'Brien, Terence (1984) 'Out of the Blue - A Pilot with the Chindits' |
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| Autobiographies/Biographies |
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Sykes, Christopher (1959) 'Orde Wingate' |
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Royle, Trevor (1995) 'Orde Wingate - Irregular Soldier' |
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Bierman, J. and Smith C. (1999) 'Fire in the Night - Wingate of Burma,
Ethiopia and Zion' |
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Calvert, Mike (1994) 'Fighting Mad' |
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Rooney, David (1997) 'Mad Mike - A Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert' |
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Fergusson, Bernard (1970) 'The Trumpet in the Hall' |
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Thompson, Sir Robert (1989) 'Make for the Hills' |
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| 1944 / 1st Air Commando Group |
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Arnold, General H.H. (1944) 'The Aerial Invasion of Burma' (The
National Geographic Magazine August 1944) |
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Merson H.A. et al (1994) 'Operation Thursday - Birth of the Air
Commandos' |
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Van Wagner, R.D. (1998) 'Any Time, Any Place, Any Where - The 1st Air
Commandos in World War II' |
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Young, Edward (2000) 'Air Commando Fighters of World War II' |
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| The Burma War |
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Owen, Frank (HMSO) (1946) 'Campaign in Burma' |
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Air Ministry (HMSO) (1949) 'Wings of the Phoenix - The Official Story
of the Air War in Burma' |
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Slim, Field Marshal Viscount (1956) 'Defeat Into Victory' |
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Smith, E.D. (1979) 'Battle for Burma' |
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Allen, Louis (1984) 'Burma the Longest War 1941-45' |
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Rooney, David (1992) 'Burma Victory' |
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Thompson. Julian (2002) 'The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in
Burma' |
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| Other Books |
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Thompson, Julian (1998) 'Imperial War Museum book of War Behind Enemy
Lines' |
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| Videos / Chindits |
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'Chindit Commander : Brigadier Michael Calvert DSO and bar' (British
Legion 1997)
available from
British Legion Remembrance Travel Web Site |
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'Gladiators of World War II : The Chindits' (BBC Worldwide 2002) |
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'Chindit Tales' (A.P.S. Productions) |
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| Videos / Burma War |
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'British Campaigns : Burma 1941-1945' (DD Video 2001) |
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'The World at War Vol. 7 : It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow' (Thames
Television 1982) |
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'Burma Victory : The Forgotten War' (Imperial War Museum/DD video
1993) |
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'Burma : Royal Air Force' (Imperial War Museum/DD video) |
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'War in the Far East' (British Pathe News 1995) |
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'The War in the Jungle' (Pegasus 2002) |
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