Notes - Hirohito's War

   
Chapter 1 - Empires in Conflict
Chapter 2 - Ultra-nationalism and the Death of Democracy
Chapter 3 - Japan versus China: From Phoney War to Total War
Chapter 4 - Mobilization for War in Asia: America and Japan
Chapter 5 - Pearl Harbor: Yamamoto’s Great Mistake
Chapter 6 - Plan ORANGE and MacArthur’s Philippines Debacle
Chapter 7 - Invasion of Malaya: Yamashita’s ‘Bicycle Blitzkrieg’
Chapter 8 - Fall of Singapore: Churchill’s Sacrificial Pawn
Chapter 9 - Burma Corps: Humiliation Then a Fighting Retreat
Chapter 10 - Dutch East Indies and Japan’s Quest for Oil
Chapter 11 - Limits of Empire: Doolittle and New Military Strategies
Chapter 12 - Battle of the Coral Sea: The First Carrier ‘Shoot-Out’
Chapter 13 - Battle of Midway: Nimitz’s Lucky Day
Chapter 14 - Battles of the Kokoda Trail: Aussies Triumphant
Chapter 15 - Guadalcanal: Battles of Tulagi, Savo Island, Tenaru and East Solomons
Chapter 16 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Edson’s (Bloody) Ridge
Chapter 17 - Guadalcanal: Henderson Field and the Santa Cruz Islands
Chapter 18 - Battles of Buna-Gona-Sanananda: MacArthur’s Lies and Neglect
Chapter 19 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Tassafaronga and Final Reckonings
Chapter 20 - Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Tipping Point of US Air Supremacy
Chapter 21 - Yamamoto Assassinated and the Battle of New Georgia
Chapter 22 - The Huon Peninsula: Operation CARTWHEEL Completed
Chapter 23 - The Isolation of Rabaul and the Starvation of Bougainville
Chapter 24 - The Battles of Arakan, Imphal, and Kohima: Slim Boxes Clever
Chapter 25 - The ICHI-GO Campaign and the Battle of Myitkyina
Chapter 26 - Battle for China: FDR, Chiang, Mao, and ‘Vinegar Joe’
Chapter 27 - Jump to Hollandia: MacArthur’s Greatest Victory
Chapter 28 - Pacific Island Hop: The Gilberts, Marshalls, and Carolines
Chapter 29 - The Great Marianas ‘Turkey Shoot’
Chapter 30 - The Invasions of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam: General Tojo Upended
Chapter 31 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf: ‘Bull’ Halsey’s Mad Dash for Glory
Chapter 32 - “I Have Returned”: MacArthur Regains the Philippines
Chapter 33 - The Battle of the Irrawaddy River: Slim’s ‘Mandalay Feint’
Chapter 34 - Iwo Jima: The Iconic Battle of the Pacific War
Chapter 35 - The Battle of Okinawa: Slaughter of the Innocents
Chapter 36 - LeMay’s B-29 Superfortresses over Japan: Cities in Ashes
Chapter 37 - Potsdam, Hirohito, and the Atom Bomb
APPENDIX A - SUBMARINES: THE UNDERSEA WAR
APPENDIX B - RAW MATERIALS AND LOGISTICS
APPENDIX C - ECONOMICS OF THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX D - THE JAPANESE EMPIRE – FROM CO-PROSPERITY TO TYRANNY
APPENDIX E - TYPHOONS AND DIVINE WINDS: KAMIKAZE
APPENDIX K - THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG
APPENDIX L - THE BATTLES OF ATTU AND KISKA
APPENDIX N - THE ROLE OF OIL IN THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX O - JAPANESE–SOVIET CONFLICT IN SIBERIA, MONGOLIA AND MANCHURIA

CHAPTER 1 – EMPIRES IN CONFLICT

1       Stourzh, Gerald, Alexander Hamilton and the Idea of Republican Government (Stanford, University Press, 1900) p.192

2       Reynolds, David, Empire of Liberty (Penguin, 2010)

3       Ferguson, Niall, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Allen Lane, London, 2002) p.370

4       Ward-Perkins, Bryan, The Fall of Rome, and the End of Civilization (Oxford, New York, 2005) p.759

5       Lumis, Trevor, Pacific Paradises (Pluto Press, Melbourne, 2005) p.170

6       Morison, Samuel Eliot, The Growth of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, New York, 1969) p.41

7       Reynolds, Japan in the Fascist Era, p.296

8       Ibid., p.298

9       Congressional Record, Senate, 9 January 1900, p. 704-711

10     Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.23

11     Ibid., p.23

12     Ibid., p.24

13     Reynolds, Bruce, ed., Japan in the Fascist Era, p.300

14     Beasley, W.G., Japanese Imperialism 1894 – 1945 (Clarendon Press, London, 1987) p.28

15     Hotta, Eri, Pan-Asianism and Japan’s War 1931 – 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007) p.51

16     Ibid., p.55

17     Ibid., p.53

18     Peirson John D., Tokutomi Soho, A Journalist for Modern Japan (Princeton Legacy Library, New Jersey, 1980) p.229

19     Beasley, Japanese Imperialism, p.31

20     Ibid., p.55

21     Ibid., p.65

22     Mclain, James, Japan, A Modern History (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2002) p.294

23     Kowner, Rotem, ed., The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War (Routledge, New York, NY, 2007) p.150

24     Hotta, Pan Asianism, p.58

25     Kowner, ed., The Impact of the War on French Politics, Patrick Beillevaire, p.127

26     Kowner, ed., Germany and the Road to the Great War, Mathew S. Seligmann, p.112

27     Kowner, ed., Britain, the Great Powers, and the War, T.G. Otte, p.100

28     Kowner, ed., India and the War, T.R. Sareen, p.242

29     Ibid., p.243

30     Ibid., p.246

31     Ibid., p.247  

32     Kowner, ed., Britain, The Great Powers, and the War, Otte, p.101

33     Kowner, ed., The Impact of the War on China, Harold Z. Schiffrin, p.173

34     Ibid., p.180

35     Ibid., p.179

36     Ibid., p.181

37     Ibid., p.176

38     Macmillan, Margaret, Peacmakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and its Attempts to End War (John Murray, London, 2001) p.17

39       Nish, Ian H., Alliance in Decline, A Study in Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1908 – 1923 (Bloomsbury, London, 2102: first published 1972) p.17

40       Beasley, Japanese Imperialism, p.31

41       Hotta, Pan Asianism, p.42

42       Ibid., p.39

43       Macmillan, Peacemakers, p.321

44       Barnett, Corelli, The Collapse of British Power (Pan Books, London, 2002) p.250

45       Kowner, ed., American Discourse on Race and Religion, Joseph H. Henning, p.161

46       Kowner, ed., The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War, p.148

47       Keane, John, The Life and Death of Democracy (Simon & Schuster, London, 2009) p.508

48        Morrison, Samuel Eliot, The Growth of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, 1950) p.404

49        Keegan, John, Battle at Sea, From Man-of-War to Submarine (Pimlico, London, 2004) p.171

50        Dillon, Michael, China, A Modern History (IB Tauris, London, 2010) p.184

51        Massaro, John, No Guarantee of A Gun, How and Why the Second Amendment Means Exactly What it Says, Jefferson, Thomas, First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801 (Author House, Bloomington, Indiana, 2009) p.321

52        Macmillan, Peacemakers, p.55

53        Ibid., p.340

54        Ibid., p.343

55        Barnet, The Collapse of British Power, p.253

56        Costello, The Pacific War, p.35

57        Barnet, The Collapse of British Power, p.253

58        Chomsky, Noam, American Power (New York: The New Press, 1967) p.205

59        Nitobe, Inazu, Japanese Nation (Columbia University Press, 2006)

60        Dillon, China, p.146

61        Seagrave, Sterling, The Soong Dynasty (Sidgewick & Jackson, London,) p.147

62        Ibid., p.184

63        Ibid., p.202

64        Dillon, China, p.193

65        Rosefielde, Steven, Red Holocaust (Routledge, Oxford, 2010) p.276

66        Crockatt, Richard, The Fifty Years War, The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941-1991 (Routledge, London, 1995) p.25

67        Pike, Francis, Empires at war, A Short History of Modern Asia (I.B.Tauris, London, 2010) p.55

68        Haines, Gerald and J. Samuel Walker, eds., American Foreign Relations, A Historiographical Review (London, Frances Pinter, 1981) p.66

69        Overy, Richard, The Morbid Age, Britain Between the Wars (Allen Lane, London, 2009) p.221