Material on Wingate's Burma Campaign
(histories, personal accounts, biographies)

Books

Articles

Official Documents

Internet Web Sites

Video Documentary

Fictional Accounts

photo courtesty Imperial War Museum, London  

Books:
• Allen, Louis. Burma, The Longest War.
  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984.
• Anglim, Simon. Orde Wingate and the British Army, 1922-1944. London: Chatto Publishers, 2010.
• Asprey, Robert. War in The Shadows: The Guerilla In History.
  London: Little, Brown, 1994.
• Astor, Gerald. The Jungle War.
  New York: Wiley, John & Sons Inc., 2004.
• Baggaley, James. A Chindit Story.
  London: Souvenir Press, 1954.
• Baines, Frank. Chindit Affair: A Memoir of the War in Burma.
  London: Pen & Sword Press, 2011.
• Barker, A. J. The March on Delhi.
  London: Faber & Faber, 1963.
• Begg, R. and Liddle, P. For Five Shillings a Day.
  London: Collins, 2000.
• Bidwell, Shelford. The Chindit War.
  New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1979.
• Bierman, John, and Smith, Colin. Fire In The Night.
  New York: Random House, 1999.
• Bond, Brian. Chief of Staff: The Diaries of Lt. Gen. Sir Henry Pownall. London: Cooper, 1974.
• Bond, Brian. Liddell Hart: A Study of His Military Thought.
  London: Cassells, 1977.
• Bond, Brian, and Tachikawa, Kyoichi (eds). British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-1945. London: Frank Cass, 2004.
• Boyle, P and Wood, J. Jungle Jungle, Little Chindit.
  London: Hollis and Carter, 1944.
• Brayley, Martin. The British Army 1939-1945: Far East Part 3.
  Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2002.
• Burchett, Wilfred. Wingate's Phantom Army.
  London: Frederick Muller, 1946.
• Callahan, Raymond. Burma, 1942-1945.
  Newark: U of Delaware Press, 1978.
• Calvert, Michael. Prisoner Of Hope.
  London: Jonathan Cape, 1952.
• Calvert, Michael. Fighting Mad.
  London: Bantam, 1964.
• Calvert, Michael. Chindit.
  London: Ballantine, 1973.
• Calvert, Michael. Slim.
  London: Ballantine, 1973.
• Cane, Peter. Chinese Chindits.
  London: Gale & Polden, 1948.
• Carfrae, Charles. Chindit Column.
  London: Kimber, 1985.
• Carpenter, Ronald. Rhetoric in Martial Deliberations and Decision Making: Cases and Consequences.
  Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
• Central Office of Information & Air Ministry. Wings of the Phoenix - The Official History of the Air War in Burma. London: HMSO, 1949.
• Chinnery, Philip. March or Die - The Story of Wingate's Chindits. Tuscon: Paul Gaudette, 1997.
• Chinnery, Philip. Wingate's Lost Brigade: The First Chindit Operation 1943. London: Pen and Sword, 2010.
• Churchill, Winston. The Second World War, Vol.IV (The Hinge Of Fate). Vol.V (Closing The Ring). Boston: Houghten Mifflin, 1951.
• Cocharne, Stewart. Chindit - Special Force, Burma 1944.
  London: Xlibris Corporation, 2000.
• Collier, Basil. The War in the Far East 1941-1945.
  London: William Morrow & Co., 1968.
• Connell, John. Auchinleck.
  London: Cassell, 1959.
• Connell, John. Wavell: Supreme Commander.
  London: Collins, 1969.
• Correll, John. "Air Invasion of Burma." Air Force Magazine, Vol.92, No.11 (November, 2009): 50-53.
• Crew, F.A.E. The Army Medical Services: Campaigns Vol. V.
  London: HMSO, London, 1966.
• Cross, J. P. Gurkhas At War.
  London: Greenhill, 2002.
• Devlin, Gerard. Silent Wings: The Story of the Glider Pilots of WWII. New York: Kimber, 1985.
• Diamond, Jon. Orde Wingate. London: Osprey PUblishing, 2012.
• Elliot-Bateman, Michael. Fourth Dimension of Warfare, Vol. I.
  Manchester: Manchester U Press, 1970.
• Fergusson, Bernard. Beyond The Chindwin.
  London: Collins Publishing, 1945.
• Fergusson, Bernard. The Wild Green Earth.
  London: Collins Publishing, 1946.
• Fergusson, Bernard. The Trumpet in the Hall.
  London: Collins Publishing, 1970.
• Gould, Tony. Imperial Warriors: Britain and the Gurkhas.
  London: Granta Books, 2002.
• Halley, David. With Wingate in Burma.
  London: Hodge, 1946.
• Harrison, Mark. Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Hawley, Dennis. The Death of Wingate.
  London: Merlin Books, 1994.
• Heilbron, Otto. Warfare in the Enemy's Rear.
  London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963.
• Hickey, Michael. The Unforgettable Army.
  Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount Ltd, 1992.
• James, Harold. Across the Threshold of Battle.
  Lewis: The Book Guild, 1993.
• Jeffrey, W. F. Sunbeams Like Swords.
  London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951.
• Keegan, John (ed.). Churchill's Generals.
  New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.
• Kirby, Major-General Woodward (ed). The Official History of The War Against Japan, Vols.II & III. London: HMSO 1962 & 1965.
• Latimer, John. Burma: The Forgotten War.
  London: John Murray, 2004.
• Lewin, Ronald. Slim The Standard Bearer.
  London: Cooper, 1976.
• Lewin, Ronald. The Chief: Field Marshall Lord Wavell, Commander-in-chief and Viceroy, 1939-1947.
  London: Hutchinson, 1980.
• Lyman, Robert. Slim, Master of War.
  London: Constable & Robinson, 2004.
• MacHorton, Ian. Safer Than A Known Way.
  London: Odhams Press, 1958.
• Mason, H. and Bergeron, R. and Renfrow, J. Operation Thursday: Birth of the Air Commandos. Washington DC: U.S. Air Force, 1994.
• Masters, John. The Road Past Mandalay.
  London: Joseph Publishing, 1961.
• Mead, Peter. Orde Wingate and the Historians.
  Devon: Merlin Books, 1987.
• Moreman, Tim. Chindit 1942-45.
  Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2009.
• Mosher, Don (ed). China-Burma-India.
  New York: Time-Life Books, 1978.
• Mosley, Leonard. Gideon Goes To War.
  London: A. Barker, 1956.
• O'Brien, Terence. Out of the Blue.
  London: Collins, 1984.
• O'Brien, Terence. The Moonlight War: The Story of Clandestine Operations in South-East Asia, 1944-45. London: Collins, 1987.
• Otway, T.B.H. Second World War, Army: Airborne Forces.
  London: Imperial War Museum, 1990.
• Owen, Frank. The Campaign in Burma.
  London: HMSO, 1946.
• Painter, Robin. A Signal Honour: With The Chindits and the XIV Army. London: Cooper, 1999.
• Prasad, S., and Bhargara, K., and Khera, P. The Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War - The Reconquest of Burma, Vol.I. Delhi: Indian Army, 1958.
• Prithvi, Colonel Nath. Wingate: His Relevancy to Contemporary Warfare. London: Sterling, 1990.
• Probert, Henry. The Forgotten Air Force.
  London: Brasseys, 1995.
• Redding, Tony. War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944. Stround: Spellmount, 2011.
• Rhodes-James, Richard. Chindit.
  London: John Murray, 1980.
• Rolo, Charles. Wingate's Raider's.
  London: Harrap, 1944.
• Romanus, Charles, and Sunderland, Rily. The United States In World War II, China, Burma, India Theater, Vol.II. Washington DC: Department of the US Army, 1953 & 1956.
• Rooney, David. Burma Victory.
  London: Arms & Armour Press, 1992.
• Rooney, David. Wingate and the Chindits: Redeeming the Balance. London: Arms & Armour, 1994.
• Rooney, David. Mad Mike: A Life of Mike Calvert.
  London: Cooper, 1997.
• Rooney, David. Stilwell The Patriot: Vinegar Joe, The Brits and Chiang Kai-Shek. London: Greenhill Books, 2005.
• Rossetto, Luigi. Major-General Orde Charles Wingate and the Development of Long-Range Penetration. Manhattan: AH/HA Publishing, 1982.
• Royle, Trevor. Orde Wingate, Irregular Soldier.
  London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
• Schofield, Victoria. Wavell, Soldier & Statesman. London: John Murray, 2006.
• Sharpe, Philip. To Be A Chindit.
  London: White Lotus Press, 1995.
• Shaw, Jesse. The March Out.
  London: Hart Publishing, 1953.
• Shaw, Jesse. Special Forces: A Chindits Story.
  London: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1986.
• Sheffield, G.D. (ed). Leadership and Command.
  London: Brassey's, 1997.
• Slim, Field Marshall Viscount. Defeat Into Victory.
  London: Cassell, 1956.
• Smith, E. D. Battle for Burma.
  London: Smith & Meier, 1979.
• Stibbe, Philip. Return Via Rangoon.
  London: White Lotus Press, 1947.
• Stone, James H (ed). Crisis Fleeting: Original Reports on Military Medicine in India & Burma In The Second World War.
  Washington DC: U.S. Army Office of Surgeon General, 1969.
• Swinson, Arthur. Four Samurai.
  London: Hutchinson, 1968.
• Sykes, Christopher. Orde Wingate.
  New York: World Publishing Company, 1959.
• Thomas, Lowell. Back To Mandalay.
  New York: Greystone Press, 1951.
• Thompson, Julian. War Behind Enemy Lines.
  London: Imperial War Museum, 1998.
• Thompson, Julian. The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma. London: Imperial War Museum, 2002.
• Thompson, Sir Robert. Make For the Hills.
  London: Leo Cooper, 1989.
• Towill, Bill. A Chindit's Chronicle.
  London: iUniverse.com; 2000.
• Tulloch, Derek. Wingate in War and Peace.
  London: History Book Club, 1972.
• Van Wagner, R. D. Any Place, Any Time, Any Where - The 1st Air Commandos in WWII. New York: Schiffer Publishing, 1998.
• Webster, Donovan. The Burma Road.
  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003.
• Weir, William. Soldiers In The Shadows.
  Franklin Lakes: New Page Books, 2002.
• Wilcox, Edward. Chindit Column 76.
  London: Longmans, 1945.
• Young, Edward. Air Commando Fighters of World War II.
  North Branch: Specialty Press, 2000.
• Ziegler, Philip. Mountbatten.
  New York: Alfred Knopf, 1985.
  
  
  Articles:
• Anglim, Simon. "Orde Wingate and the Theory Behind the Chindit Operations." RUSI Journal, Vol.147, No.2 (April, 2002): 92-97.
• Anglim, Simon. "MI(R), G(R) and British Covert Operations, 1939-42." Intelligence and National Security Journal, Vol.20, No.4 (December, 2005): 631-651.
• Anglim, Simon. "Orde Wingate, Guerilla Warfare & Long-Range Penetration, 1940-44." Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol.17, No.3 (September, 2006): 241-262.
• Arnold, General H. H. "The Aerial Invasion of Burma."
  National Geographic Journal, Vol.86, No.2 (August, 1944): 129-148.
• Berges, Charles. "Orde Wingate: Rebellious Misfit."
  Military History Quarterly, Vol.11, No.4 (Summer, 1999): 68-77.
• Boot, Max. "What Wingate Wrought."
  The Weekly Standard, Vol.18, No.6 (December 31, 2012): .
• Bidwell, Shelford, and Mead, Peter. "Orde Wingate: Two Views." Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.15 (July, 1999): 401-404.
• Correll, John. "Air Invasion of Burma." Air Force Magazine, Vol.92, No.11 (November, 2009): 50-53.
• Fergusson, Bernard. "Behind The Enemy Lines In Burma."
  RUSI Journal, Vol.XCI (August, 1946): 347-360.
• Fergusson, Bernard. "The Wingate Myth."
  RUSI Journal, (September, 1972): 75-76.
• Hawley, Dennis. "The Death of Orde Wingate."
  After The Battle, No.96: 1-13.
• Jervey, Gay. "This Strange Britisher."
  World War Two, March-April, 2010: 44-51.
• Lewis, Robert. "The Chindits’ Operations in Burma."
  Military Review, Vol.LXVIII (June, 1987): 34-43.
• Life Magazine. "British Raid Burma."
  Vol.14, No.26 (June, 1943): 19-26.
• Life Magazine. "Airborne Raiders in Burma."
  Vol.15, No.26 (June 12, 1944): 27-31.
• McKeeman, Major Michael. "Unconventional Warfare at the Operational Level the Chindits in Burma in World War 2." U.S. Army CGSC Combat Studies Institute, Research Study (April, 1988).
• McMichael, Major Scott. "Historical Perspective On Light Infantry." US Army CGSC Combat Studies Institute, Research Study No.6 (1987).
• Mead, Peter. "The Chindit Operations of 1944."
  RUSI Journal, Vol.C (May, 1955): 250-262.
• Mead, Peter. "Orde Wingate and the Official Histories."
  Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.14 (January, 1979): 55-82.
• Purnell-BBC. "Wingate's Chindits."
  Purnell's History of the Second World War, No.47 (1967).
• Rooney, David. "A Grave Injustice: Wingate and the Establishment." History Today, Vol.44 (March, 1994): 11-14.
• Smith, Arthur & Hooper, Craig. "The Mosquito Can Be More Dangerous Than The Mortar Round." US Naval War College Review, Vol.58, No.1 (Winter, 2005): 77-87.
• Smith, Robert Barr. "Mad Mike Calvert in Burma."
  World War II, Vol.13, No.6 (February, 1999).
• Smith, Robert Barr. "The Chindits Heroic Sacrifice."
  World War II, Vol.15, No.9 (May, 2001): 50-56.
  
  
• Wartime American & British civilian newspaper reports and military theater newspapers.
  
  
  Official Documents:
• Churchill College. Slim Papers.
  Cambridge, UK. University records archive and research.
• Imperial War Museum. Imperial War Museum Collections.
  London, UK. Museum records archive and research.
• Kings College. Liddell Hart Center For Military Archives.
  London, UK. University records archive and research.
• The National Archives. Archives.
  Kew, UK. National records archive and research.
• The National Army Museum. Archives.
  London, UK. Museum records archive and research.
• University of Manchester. Dunlop, Hay, Tulloch Papers.
  Manchester, UK. University archive and research.
  
  
• Burma Star Association.
  UK. War veterans association.
• Chindits Old Comrades Association.
  UK. War veterans association.
• British Army Regiments.
  UK. Army Regimental museums and veterans associations.
  
  
  Internet sites:
• Bill Bielauskas. "USAAF 1st Air Commando Group."
  The U.S. Air Force Air Commando unit which supported 2nd Chindit expedition.
• Harry Blair. "USAAF 27 Troop Carrier Squadron."
  A U.S. Air Force transport unit which served in Burma and helped to support the 2nd Chindit expedition.
• Stewart Cochrane. "Chindit, Special Force Burma 1944."
  About his father who served in Chindits in 2nd expedition with British Army Black Watch regiment.
• Anne Faulkner. "George Faulkner, MD, Chindit."
  Website on a Chindit column medical officer, her father, which contains both Wingate's after action report and Captain Faulkner's medical report both from first Chindit expedition.
• Peter Gerrard. "The Chindits of Burma."
  His father's writings on the Chindits and participation in 1944 Chindit campaign.
• Rolf Hedges. "March Divided But Fight United."
  First article of MagWeb story on Chindits.
• Imperial War Museum. "The War In Burma, 1942-1945."
  Stories from the campaign in Burma.
• Linda Jones. "Private David Jones."
  The story of her uncle in the 1944 Chindit campaign in Calvert's brigade, and who perished.
• Ian Lambert. "H G Lambert, A Soldier With The Chindits."
  The wartime story of his father in the 2nd Chindit campaign, who was wounded in action.
• Jack Lindo. "Jack Lindo, My Life, My Regiment."
  His wartime story including participation in the 2nd 1944 Chindit campaign.
• Paul Loseby. "Burma Star Association."
  Information and stories on the Chindit campaign at site devoted to Burma-India campaign and British veterans who served in this war theater.
• Sue Robinson & Dave Hardinge. "A Lancanshire Chindit."
  A site dedicated to Chindit Sgt. William Clift.
• Stone, James (ed), U.S. Army Medical Department. "Crisis Fleeting: Original Reports on Military Medicine in India and Burma In The Second World War - Book IV." Chapter from U.S. Army Medical Department report on medical experiences during Burma Campaign.
• U.S. Army Headquarters Japan. "Burma Operations Record: 15th Army Operations in Imphal Area and Withdrawal to Northern Burma; Japanese Monograph No. 134."A 1957 U.S. Army post-war study done on 1944 Japanese campaign in Burma-India which includes interviews with Japaneses commanders and staff officers who participated.
• WWII War Experience Center. "Major-General Orde Wingate."
  Transcript of lecture given by Orde Wingate biographer Trevor Royle.
• World War one Cemeteries and Memorials. "Chindit Memorial."
  Contains images of Chindit Memorial in London, UK.
• Frank Young. "Chindits, Special Forces Burma."
  Dedicated to the Chindits and covers intensly both of their campaigns. Includes multimedia files.
• Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. "Orde Wingate."
  Biography site from online encyclopedia, last edit October 2010.
• Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. "Chindits."
  History of Chindits site from online encyclopedia, last edit October 2010.
  
  
  Videos:
• A. Stokes, "Chindit Tales,"
  A.P.S. Productions, 1996.
• BBC Worldwide TV, "Gladiators of World War II: The Chindits,"
  BBC, 2002.
• British Legion Remembrance Travel, "Chindit Commander: Brigadier Mike Calvert," British Legion, 1997.
• Greatest Raids Series, "Chindits Behind Enemy Lines,"
  The History Channel, 2003.
• Ray Boulting, "Burma Victory,"
  Imperial War Museum, 1945.
• World At War, "Vol.7: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow,"
  Thames Television, 1974.
  
  
  Fictional Accounts:
• Bandele, Biyi. Burma Boy.
  London: Jonathan Cape, 2007.
• Denny, John. Chindit Indiscretion.
  London: Johnson, 1956.
• Milner, Joe. To Blazes With Glory.
  London: Gaskill, 1995.
• Taylor, Thomas. Born of War.
  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.