Quotations on this website are cited from:
(1) “Burma ’44” by James Holland (2016) Transworld Publishers.
(2) “Forgotten Voices of Burma” by Julian Thompson (2009) Ebury Press.
(3) “Japan’s Last Bid for Victory” by Robert Lyman (2011) Praetorian Press.
(4) “Nemesis. The Battle for Japan, 1944-45” by Max Hastings (2007) HarperCollins.
(5) “Tales by Japanese Soldiers of the Burma Campaign 1942-1945” by Kazuo Tamayama & John Nunneley (2000) Cassell Military Paperbacks.
(6) “The Siege of Kohima” by Robert Street (2003) Barny Books.
(7) “The Indian Arnhem” by Myles Sanderson (2024) Hermes Messenger of the Gods, digital magazine of The Parachute Regimental Association.
(8) “Road of Bones” by Fergal Keane (2010) HarperPress.
(9) “The advance toward Kohima”. The Soldier’s Burden.
(10) “The History of the Assam Regiment” by Peter Steyn (1959) Orient Longmans, India.
(11) “Kohima: The Furthest Battle” by Leslie Edwards (2009) The History Press.
(12) “The Trees Are All Young on Garrison Hill” by Gordon Graham (2005) Kohima Educational Trust.
(13) “Kohima, An Historic Village” by John McCann (1988) John McCann.
(14) “March On” by Norman Havers (1992) Square One Publications.
(15) “Burma. The Longest War 1941-45” by Louis Allen (1984) Phoenix Press.
(16) “Soldier Poets of the Second British Infantry Division” edited by Bob Cook & Robin McDermott (2018) Dragon Publications.
(17) “Conflict at Kohima” by Harry Swinson (1944) Extracts from the diary of Captain Harry Swinson, who served with 7th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment and at 5th Infantry Brigade Headquarters.
(18) “After the war my father didn’t recognize me” by Chris Summers (2004) BBC News Online.
(19) “Valour at Kohima: the Victoria Cross Recipients”. A webinar by Stephen Snelling, freely available on the website of Kohima Educational Trust