BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS, HISTORIES AND MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS THAT COVER THE OPERATIONS OF THE CHINDITS DURING THE 1943/44 CAMPAIGNS IN BURMA DURING THE 1939-45 WAR

Compiled by the Chindits' Old Comrades Association

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Official Histories

Serial Name of Book Author Publisher Year of Campaign
1 War Against Japan - Vols 2 & 3 Maj.Gen S Woodburn Kirby HMSO London 1961 1943 & 1944
2 Indian Armed Forces in World War 2
Reconquest of Burma Vol 1		 Professor S N Prasad   "
3 The United States in World War 2 - China, Burma, India Theatre Vols 1 & 2 Charles F Romanus and
Riley Sunderland		 Dept of Army, Washington DC  

 

Miscellaneous Publications

4 Beyond the Chindwin Sir Bernard Fergusson Collins, London 1943
5 Wingate's Raiders Charles Role London Press 1943
6 Wingate's Phantom Army W G Burchett Published in Bombay 1943
7 Wild Green Earth Sir Bernard Fergusson Collins 1944
8 Prisoners of Hope Michael Calvert Jonathan Cape 1944
9 Safer Than a Known Way Ian Machorton London 1943
10 Return Via Rangoon Philip Stibbe Leo Cooper, Pen & Sword Books Ltd. Barnsley, South Yorkshire 1943
11 Road Past Mandalay John Masters Michael Joseph 1944
12 Sunbeams Like Swords Jeffreys London Press 1944
13 Orde Wingate Christopher Sykes Collins 1959 1943-44
14 Chinese Chindits Peter Cane Polder 1943
15 Fighting Mad Brigadier Calvert   1943-44
16 Article on 1st Air Commando Gen H A Arnold Geographical Magazine 1944
17 Article on Chindits Phil Cochran Readers Digest 1944
18 With Wingate in Burma David Halley William Hodge & Co 1943
19 Defeat Into Victory F M Slim Casells 1956 1943 & 44
20 Campaign in Burma Frank Owen Arrow Books 1943 & 44
21 Forgotten Skies Wing Cdr W W Russell Hutchinson 1944
22 Kogun Hayashi and Cox Marine Corps Association 1943 & 44
23 Defeat in the East Michael Elliott-Bateman UP 1967 1943 & 44
24 Warfare in the Enemy's Rear Otto Hailbrunn Allen & Unwin 1963 1943 & 44
25 Return to Burma Sir Bernard Fergusson Collins 1966  
26 Trumpet in the Hall Sir Bernard Fergusson Collins 1970  
27 Kohima Arthur Swinson Hutchinson 1965 1944
28 The Four Samurai Arthur Swinson Hutchinson 1968  
29 The Gurkhas Harold James
Denis Sheil-Small		 Macdonald 1972 1943
30 Wingate in Peace & War Maj. Gen. Derek Tulloch Macdonald 1972 Biography 1921 -44
31 La Guerre de L'Inatendu Albert Meiglen   1943-44
32 Guerre Totale et Geurre Revolutionnaire (3 Tomes) Proffession Henri Bernard Editions Brepols Brussels 1965 to 1967 1943-44
33 The Chindit Operations of 1944 Lt. Col. P. Mead Royal United Service Institute Journal 1955 Vol 100 1944
34 The Good Soldier Field Marshall Lord Wavell    
35 Chindit Richard Rhodes James John Murray 1980 1944
36 Better to Die Edward Bishop   1944
37 Slim Brigadier Calvert Paperback Ballantines 1943-44
38 Chindits Long Range Penetration Brigadier Calvert Paperback Ballantines 1944
39 World War 2 Vol 7 Illustrated parts 103-104 Brigadier Calvert Orbis Publishing 1943-44
40 The Chindit War 1944 Brigadier Selford Badwell Hodder & Stoughton 1944
41 Dictionary of Battles Brigs. Peter Young & Michael Calvert New English Library 1943-44
42 War in the Far East Basil Collier Heinemann 1943-44
43 Wingate - The Pursuit of Truth Thompson & Mead Army Quarterly July 1978 1943-44
44 Maj. General Orde Charles Wingate and the Development of Long Range Penetration Captain L. Rossetto - Canadian Forces MA/AH Publishers, Eisenhower Hall, Kansas State University, Manhatten, Kansas 66506 USA 1943-44
45 Orde Wingate and the Historians Peter Mead Martin Books Ltd. 40 East St. Braunton, Devon 1943-44
46 194 Squadron, RAF, The Friendly Firm Douglas Williams Martin Books Ltd. 40 East St. Braunton, Devon 1944
47 Chindit Column Charles Carfrae Williams Kimber 1944
48 Make For the Hills Sir Robert Thompson Leo Cooper, 190 Shaftsbury Ave, London 1943-44
49 1st Air Commando Group R D Van Wagner USAF Air Command & Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama 36112 1944
50 A Chindit's Chronicle Bill Towill Quacks Booklet Printers, 7, Grape Lane, Petergate, York 1943-44
51 The Death of Wingate Dennis Hawley Anthony rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wilts  
52 Burma Victory David Rooney Arms and Armour Press, Villiers House, 41/47 The Strand, London WC2N 5JE  
53 Wingate and the Chindits - Establishment Victims David Rooney Arms and Armour Press, Villiers House, 41/47 The Strand, London WC2N 5JE  
54 Wingate and the Chindits - Redressing the Balance David Rooney Arms and Armour Press, Villiers House, 41/47 The Strand, London WC2N 5JE  
55 Return to Kohima John McCann John McCann, 6/73 Taunton Rd, Oldham OL9 BD  
56 Any Time, Any Place Philip D Chinnery Airlife Publishing Ltd, 101 Longdean Road, Shrewsbury SY3 9EB  
57 To Be A Chindit Philip Sharpe The Book Guild Ltd. Lazarus Press, 6 Grenville St, Bideford, Devon EX39 2EZ  
58 To Blazes With Glory Joe Milner Edward Gaskell, Lazarus Press, 6 Grenville St, Bideford, Devon EX39 2EZ  
59 Heroes All - Stories from Wingate's Chindits Philip D Chinnery Airlife Publishing Ltd, 101 Longdean Road, Shrewsbury SY3 9EB  
60 March or Die Philip D Chinnery Airlife Publishing Ltd, 101 Longdean Road, Shrewsbury SY3 9EB  
61 With the Gurkhas Major P. Scott The Pentland Press Ltd, 3, Regal Lane, Somam, Ely, Cambs CB7 5BA  
62 Mad Mike (An Account of Brigadier Calvert's war service) David Rooney Arms and Armour Press, Villiers House, 41/47 The Strand, London WC2N 5JE  
63 Fire in the Night. Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion Joe Bierman and Colin Smith McMillan, London  
64 A Signal Honour Robin Painter Pen & Sword Books Ltd. Freepost SF5, 47 Church St, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 2BR  
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