Pertempuran ini diakibatkan oleh kemungkinan bahwa Jepang dapat menggunakan Madagaskar sebagai basis kapal selam untuk mengancam rute persediaan Sekutu.
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Flint, Keith (2006). Airborne Armour: Tetrarch, Locust, Hamilcar and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment 1938–1950. Helion & Company. ISBN 1-874622-37-X.
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Rigge, Simon (1980). War in the Outposts. World War II: Time-Life International. Vol. 24. Time-Life Books. ISBN 9780809433797.
Shores, Christopher (1996). Dust Clouds in the Middle East: Air War for East Africa, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Madagascar, 1940–42. London: Grub Street.
Smith, Colin (2010). England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42. Hachette UK. ISBNÂ 9780297857815.
Thomas, Martin (December 1996). "Imperial Backwater or Strategic Outpost? The British Takeover of Vichy Madagascar, 1942". The Historical Journal. 39 (4). Cambridge University Press: 1049–74. doi:10.1017/s0018246x00024754. JSTOR 2639867.
Turner, Leonard Charles Frederick; Gordon-Cummings, H.R; Betzler, J.E. (1961). Turner, L.C.F. (ed.). War in the Southern Oceans: 1939–1945. Cape Town: Oxford University Press. OCLC 42990496.
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