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2/29 Battalion AIF Association, A History of the 2/29 Battalion - 8th Australian Division AIF (2/29 Battalion AIF Association, 1991)
2/30 Bn AIF Association, Getting on with it - a unique story of soldiers who beat the odds (2/30 Bn AIF Association, 1998)
Adam-Smith, Patsy, Prisoners of War - from Gallipoli to Korea (Viking, Ringwood, Vic., 1992)
Allan, Sheila, Diary of a Girl in Changi - 2nd ed. including the Changi quilts (Kangaroo Press, 1999)
Arneil, Stan, Black Jack - The Life and Times of Brigadier Sir Frederick Galleghan (The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd, 107 Moray Street, South Melbourne, 3205, 1983)
Arneil, Stan, One Man's War (Arneil, S.F. Alternative Publishing Co-operative, 1980)
Arvier, Robyn, Don't Worry About Me - wartime letters of the 8th Division A.I.F. - collected and edited by Robyn Arvier (Robyn Arvier, 2004)
Atkinson, Les, My Side of the Kwai - Reminiscences of an Australian prisoner of war of the Japanese (Kangaroo Press, 2001)
Australian Military Forces, Active Service - with Australia in the Middle East (Board of Management of the Australian War Memorial, 1941)
Australian Military Forces, As You Were 1948 (Australian War Memorial, 1948)
Australian Military Forces, As You Were 1949 (Australian War Memorial, 1949)
Australian Military Forces, Jungle Warfare - with the Australian Army in the south-west Pacific (Australian War Memorial, 1944)
Australian Military Forces, Khaki and Green - with the Australian Army at Home and Overseas (Australian War Memorial, 1943)
Australian Military Forces, Signals - Story of the Australian Corps of Signals (Australian War Memorial, 1944)
Australian Military Forces, Soldiering On - the Australian Army at Home and Overseas (Australian War Memorial, 1942)
Australian Military Forces, Stand Easy (Australian War Memorial, 1945)
Baker, Guy, More lives than a cat - Three and half years as prisoner of war of the Japanese (Baker, Guy, 1998)
Bennett, Lieut. Gen H. Gordon, Why Singapore Fell (Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1944)
Blair, Joan and Clay, Return from the River Kwai (Futura Publications, 1980)
Bleakley, Jack, The Eavesdroppers (Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992)
Bowden, Tim, Changi Photographer - George Aspinall's record of captivity (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, GPO Box 9994, Sydney, NSW 2001, 1985)
Boyle, James, Railroad to Burma (Allen & Unwin, 1992)
Braddon, Russell, End of Hate - a sequel to The Naked Island (Pan Books Ltd., 8 Headfort Place, London, SW1, 1960)
Braddon, Russell, The Naked Island (Pan Books Ltd, Cavaye Place, London, 1983)
Bradley, James, Towards the Setting Sun - an escape from the Thailand-Burma Railway, 1943 (J.M.L. Fuller, 10 Jean Street, Wellington, NSW, 1984)
Brennan, Niall, Damien Parer Cameraman (Melbourne University Press, 1994)
Burgess, Pat, Warco - Australian Reporters at War (William Heineman Australia, 1986)
Campbell Hill, Alistair, Scenes from Sumatra (Mary Campbell Hill, 2002)
Chapman, F. Spencer, The Jungle is Neutral (The Reprint Society Ltd, 1950)
Chapman, Ivan, Tokyo Calling - The Charles Cousens Case (Hale & Iremonger Pty. Ltd., Sydney, 1990)
Clarke, Dr. Burnett Leslie, Behind the Wire - The Clinical War Diary of Dr. Burnett Clarke (Dept. of Child Health, University of Queensland, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, 4029, 1989)
Coates, Albert Ernest and Rosenthal, Newman, The Albert Coates Story (Hyland House Publishing Pty Limited, 10 Hyland Street, South Yarra, Vic 3141, 1977)
Coates, John, An Atlas of Australia's Wars - The Australian centenary history of defence Volume VII (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Cody, Les, Ghosts in Khaki - the history of the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, 8th Australian Division A.I.F. (Hesperian Press, PO Box 317, Victoria Park, WA 6100, 1997)
Connell, John, Wavell - Supreme Commander (Collins, St. James Place, London, 1969)
Cook, Haruko Taya and Cook, Theodore F., Japan at War - An Oral History (Phoenix Press, 2000)
Dandie, Alexander (Alex), The Story of “J" Force (Dandie, Alexander (Alex), 1985)
Daugherty III, Leo J., Fighting Techniques of a Japanese Infantryman - 1941-1945 Training, Techniques and Weapons (Amber Books Ltd, 2002)
Davies, Peter N., The Man Behind the Bridge - Colonel Toosey and the River Kwai (The Athlone Press Ltd, 1 Park Drive, London NW11 7SG, 2000)
Dean, Penrod V., Singapore Samurai (Kangaroo Press, 2000)
Department of Defence, Campaign and Operational Medals Awarded to the Australian Defence Force (Department of Defence, 1999)
Dunlop, E.E., The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop (Penguin Books Ltd, 1990)
Eves, Wally, H.M.A.S. Bendigo Corvette - by members of her ship's company (Action Press, Morley, WA, 1995)
Ewen, Murray, Colour Patch - the men of the 2/4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion, 1940-1945 (Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, W.A., 2003)
Finkemeyer, Colin E., It Happened to Us - Mark II (Finkemeyer, Colin E. and D.J., 1998)
Finkemeyer, Colin E., It Happened to Us - Mark III - the Japanese Invasion of the Pacific 1941-1945 (Finkemeyer, Colin E. and D.J., 2003)
Finlay, Iain, Savage Jungle - an epic struggle for survival (Simon & Schuster Australia, 20 Barcoo Street, East Roseville, NSW 2069, 1991)
Forbes, Cameron, Hellfire - The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War (Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, 2005)
Frei, Henry, Guns of February - Ordinary Japanese Soldiers' Views of the Malayan Campaign & the Fall of Singapore 1941-42 (Singapore University Press, 2004)
Frisch, Colin, Heroes Denied - The Malayan Harrier Conspiracy (Marlin Publications, 741 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill, Vic., 3150, 1990)
Hall, Leslie G., The Blue Haze - POWs on the Burma Railway - incorporating the history of 'A' force, groups 3 & 5, Burma-Thai Railway, 1942-1943 (Kangaroo Press, 1996)
Hall, Timothy, The Fall of Singapore 1942 (Methuen Australia Pty Ltd, 44 Waterloo Road, North Ryde, 2113, 1983)
Hardie, Robert, The Burma-Siam Railway - The Secret Diary of Dr. Robert Hardie 1942-45 (William Collins, 1983)
Harrison, Kenneth, The Brave Japanese (Rigby Limited, James Place, Adelaide, 1966)
Hellfire Pass Memorial, The Burma Thailand Railway 1942-1943 (Department of Veterans' Affairs, Canberra, 1998)
Hudson, Lionel, The Rats of Rangoon (hardcover) (Leo Cooper, 1988)
Hudson, Lionel, The Rats of Rangoon (paperback) (Arrow Books Limited, 62-65 Chandos Place, London, 1989)
Jahne, Mary, From Red Gums to Bamboo (Jahne, Mary, 2001)
Kinvig, Clifford, River Kwai Railway - The Story of the Burma-Siam Railway (Brassey's Classics, 1998)
Lemke, Len, Letters to Wendy - Recollections of a Prisoner of War (Lemke, H., Walla Walla, N.S.W., 2003)
Lindsay, Neville, Equal to the Task - The Royal Australian Army Service Corps - Volume 1 (Historia Productions, PO Box 604, Kenmore 4069, 1992)
Lodge, A.B., The Fall of General Gordon Bennett (Allen & Unwin Australia Pty Ltd, 8 Napier Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, 1986)
Lord, Walter, Day of Infamy - the moment by moment story of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (Bantam Books, 1980)
Macdougall, A.K., Victory: The Epic of World War II 1939-1945 (The Five Mile Press Pty. Ltd., 950 Stud Road, Rowville, Vic. 3178, 2005)
Magarry, Ron, for the Battalion Association, The Battalion Story - 2/26th Battalion, 8th Division, A.I.F (Magarry, W.R., 3 Canowie Road, Jindalee. Qld. 4074, 1994)
Maitland, Gordon L., The Battle History of the Royal New South Wales Regiment (Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, N.S.W., 2002)
Mant, Gilbert, Grim Glory - The A.I.F. in Malaya (The Currawong Publishing Co., 32 Jamieson Street, Sydney, 1942)
Mant, Gilbert, Massacre at Parit Sulong (Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd, 1995)
Mason, Andrew, A Different Brand of English (Poseidon Books, 2004)
McCarthy, J. Helene, A Quiet Hero - The Life of Very Reverend Dean Patrick John Walsh (McCarthy, J. Helene, 2000)
McCormack, Gavan and Nelson, Hank, The Burma-Thailand Railway (Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, 9 Atchison Street, St. Leonards, NSW, 2065, 1993)
McEwan, James, The Remorseless Road - Singapore to Nagasaki - an RAF officer's account of capture and the Japanese prison camps in World War II (Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1997)
McKie, Ronald, The Heroes (Angus & Robertson, 1980)
McLaggan, Douglas, The Will to Survive - a Private's View as a POW (Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd, 1995)
Michno, Gregory F., USS Pampanito - Killer Angel (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000)
Mills, Roy, Doctor's Diary and Memoirs - Pond's Party, F Force, Thai-Burma Railway (Mills, R.M., 1994)
Moffatt, Jonathan and McCormick, Audrey Holmes, Moon Over Malaya - A Tale of Argyll’s and Marines (Tempus Publishing Ltd, The Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2QG, 2002)
Moffitt, Athol, Project Kingfisher - The untold story of the Sandakan POWs in Borneo - and the secret plan for a rescue that never happened (Angus & Robertson, 1989)
Moremon, Dr. John, Australians on the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-43 (Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2003)
Moremon, Dr. John, Royal Australian Air Force 1941-1945 Australians in the Pacific War (Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2005)
Moremon, Dr. John, with Reid, Dr. Richard, A Bitter Fate - Australians in Malaya & Singapore December 1941-February 1942 (Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002)
Morrison, Ian, Malayan Postscript (Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1943)
National Archives of Singapore, The Japanese Occupation 1942-1945 - A Pictorial Record of Singapore During the War (Times Editions, 2001)
Nelson, Hank, P.O.W. Prisoners of War - Australians Under Nippon (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, GPO Box 9994, Sydney, NSW 2001, 1985)
Nelson, Hank, Prisoners of War - Australians Under Nippon (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, GPO Box 9994, Sydney, NSW 2001, 2001)
Owen, Frank, The Fall of Singapore (Michael Joseph Ltd, 1960)
Parkin, Ray, Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy - Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom (Melbourne University Press, 2003)
Peek, Ian Denys, One Fourteenth of an Elephant - A memoir of life and death on the Burma- Thailand Railway (Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, 2003)
Penfold, A.W., Bayliss, W.C., Crispin, K.E., Galleghan’s Greyhounds - The Story of the 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion (2/30 Bn AIF Association, 1984)
Penfold, A.W., Bayliss, W.C., Crispin, K.E., Galleghan’s Greyhounds - The Story of the 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion (2/30 Bn AIF Association, 2004)
Periplus Editions, Singapore Street Atlas - includes Johor Bahru (Periplus Editions, 2002)
Phillips, C.E. Lucas, The Greatest Raid of All (William Heineman Ltd, 1958)
Plowman, Peter, Across the Sea to War - Australia and New Zealand Troop Convoys from 1865 through two World Wars to Korea and Vietnam (Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, PO Box 6125 Dural Delivery Centre, NSW 2156, 2003)
Power, F.W.G., Kurrah! - an Australian POW in Changi, Thailand & Japan, 1942-1945 (Austin, R.J. & S.P., McCrae, Australia, 1991)
Queensland Ex-POW Reparation Committee, Nippon Very Sorry - Many Men Must Die - submission to the United Nations Commission of Human Rights (ECOSOC resolution 1503) (Boolaring Publications, 12 Brookes St., Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Qld. 4006, 1990)
Raaen, R.O., Diary of Pte. Raaen, Sketches by Pte. Turnbull, 1940-1945, 2/26 battalion AIF (Raaen, R.O., self published, 2001)
Reid, P.R.; Boulle, Pierre; Pope, Dudley; Brickhill, Paul, Great War Stories - The Colditz Story, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Battle of the River Plate, The Dambusters (Octupus Books Limited, 59 Grosvenor Street, London, 1978)
Richards, Rowley and McEwan, Marcia, The Survival Factor (Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd, 1989)
Richards, Rowley, A Doctor's War (Harper Collins Publishers, 2005)
Rivett, Rohan D., Behind Bamboo - An Inside Story of the Japanese Prison Camps (Angus & Robertson, 1946)
Rivett, Rohan, Behind Bamboo - Hell on the Burma Railway (Penguin Books, 2003)
Saggers, Ian, To Hell-Fire, Purgatory and Back (Saggers, Ian, 2000)
Shaw, Patricia, Brother Digger - the Sullivans, 2nd AIF (Greenhouse Publications Pty Ltd, 385-387 Bridge Road, Richmond, Vic., 1984)
Shinozaki, Mamoru, Syonan - My Story - the Japanese occupation of Singapore (Times Books International, 2001)
Silver, Lynette Ramsay and Hall, Tom, Major, Krait - The Fishing Boat that went to War (Cultured Lotus, 2001)
Silver, Lynette Ramsay and Hall, Tom, Major, The Heroes of Rimau - unravelling the mystery of one of World War II's most daring raids (Cultured Lotus, 2001)
Silver, Lynette Ramsay, The Bridge at Parit Sulong - An investigation of mass murder, Malaya 1942 (The Watermark Press, Sydney, Australia, 2004)
Simons, Sister Jessie Elizabeth, In Japanese Hands - Australian Nurses as POWs (Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty Ltd, 85 Arbinger Street, Richmond, Victoria, 3121, 1985)
Smith, Ian K., Records of War - a guide to military history sources at the Australian War Memorial (Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT 2601, 1996)
Smith, Lieutenant Colonel Neil C., Tid-Apa - The History of the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment (Mostly Unsung Military History Research & Publications, PO Box 20, Gardenvale, Vic. 3185, 1992)
Stewart, Athole, Let's Get Cracking - The Malayan Campaign (Frank Johnson, 350 George Street, Sydney, 1943)
Stewart, John, To The River Kwai - Two Journeys - 1943, 1979 (Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 2 Soho Square, London, 1989)
Tamayama, Kazuo and Nunneley, John, Tales by Japanese Soldiers (Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2002)
Thomason, William E., March to Ranau - Australian Servicemen at Sandakan, Borneo 1943-1945 (Bendigo Militaria Museum, View St., Bendigo, 1989)
Tsuji, Masanobu, Singapore The Japanese Version - Japan's Greatest Victory - Britain's Worst Defeat (Ure Smith Pty Ltd, 166 Phillip Street, Sydney, 1960)
Uhr, Janet, Against the Sun - The AIF in Malaya, 1941-42 (Allen & Unwin, 9 Atchison Street, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, 1998)
Walker, Allan S., Clinical Problems of War - Australia in the War of 1939-1945 (Australian War Memorial, 1956)
Wall, Don, Abandoned - Australians at Sandakan 1945 (Wall, Don, 1990)
Wall, Don, Heroes at Sea (Wall, D., 1991)
Wall, Don, Heroes of F Force (Wall, Don, 1993)
Wall, Don, Sandakan Under Nippon The Last March (D. Wall Publications, 98 Darlet Street West, Mona Vale, NSW 2103, 2003)
Wall, Don, Singapore and Beyond - the story of the men of the 2/20 Battalion told by the survivors (2/20 Battalion Association, 2000)
Walshe, J. P., Singapore's Legacy of Shame - Splinter's Story (Part 2) (Walshe, J. P., 1997)
Walshe, J. P., Splinter's Story - and we were young (Literary Productions Pty Ltd, 1989)
Whitecross, Roy, Slaves of the Son of Heaven - A personal account of an Australian POW 1942-1945 (Kangaroo Press, 2000)
Whitelocke, Cliff.; O'Brien, George, Gunners in the Jungle - a story of the 2/15 Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, 8 Division, Australian Imperial Force (The 2/15 Field Regiment Association, 1983)
Wigmore, Lionel, The Japanese Thrust - Australia in the War of 1939-1945 (Australian War Memorial, 1968)
Wilson, Duncan, Survival Was for Me (GC Books Ltd, 6 South Main Street, Wigtown, Scotland, 1991)
Yap, Siang Yong; Bose Romen and Pang, Angeline, Fortress Singapore - The Battlefield Guide (Times Books International, 1995)

Museum Guides

Australian-Thai Chamber of Commerce, Hellfire Pass Memorial (Thailand-Burma Railway) (Australian-Thai Chamber of Commerce, 10th Edition. 2002)

Magazines and Periodicals

Makan (Official Organ of the 2/30th Bn. AIF Association) (2/30th Battalion AIF Association, Sydney. 1946-2020)

Web Sites

ABC Four Corners "No Prisoners" - http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/specials/noprisoners/default.htm
Australian War Memorial - http://www.awm.gov.au/