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 26 – BATTLE FOR CHINA

1           Patterson, Robert Porter, and Brian Waddell, Arming the Nation for War, Mobilisation, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II (University of Tennessee Press, 2014) p.203

2           Slim, Field Marshall Viscount, Defeat into Victory (Cassell, Oxord, 1956) p.23

3           Ibid., p.23

4           Rhodes James, Robert, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, Vol. 6 (Penguin, London, 1992: first published 1980) p.6695

5           Zeigler, Philip, Mountbatten, The Official Biography (Knopf, London, 1985) p.242

6           Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.236

7           Ibid., p.237-8

8           Heiferman, Ronald Ian, The Cairo Conference of 1943: Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang (McFarland, 2011) p.152

9           Seagrave, Sterling and Peggy, Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold (Verso, New York, 2003) p.36

10       Taylor, Jay, The Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (First Harvard University Press, Paperback Edition, 2011) p.185

11       Ibid., p.195

12       Mitter, Rana, China’s War with Japan 1937-1945 (Allen Lane, London, 2013) p.269

13       Ibid., p.269

14       Ibid., p.171

15       Ibid., p.272

16       Ibid., p.273

17       Hopkins, William, B., The Pacific War, The Strategy, Politics, and Players that won the War (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2008) p.165

18       Taylor, Jay, The Generalissimo, Chiang Kai Shek and the Struggle for Modern China (First Harvard University Press, Paperback Edition, 2011) p.216

19         Wesley, Marvin Bagby, The Eagle-Dragon Alliance: America’s Relations with China in World War II (University of Delaware Press, 1992) p.69

20         Ibid., p.61

21         Dallek, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995) p.388

22         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.232

23         Hopkins, The Pacific War, p.167

24         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.244

25         Ibid., p.228

26         Chomsky, Noam, American Power and the New Mandarins (New Press, New York, 2002) p.137

27         Adler, Selig, The Isolationist Impulse: Its Twentieth Century Reaction (Abelard-Schuman Ltd., New York, 1957)

28         Fenby, Jonathan, History of Modern China, The Fall and Rise of a Great Power 1850 – 2008 (Allen Lane, London, 2008) p.373

29         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.249

30         Ibid., p.254

31         Fenby, History of Modern China, p.425

32         Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.312

33         Ibid., p.315      

34         Fenby, History of Modern China, p.398

35         Chang, Yung, and Halliday Jon, Mao, The Unknown Story (Jonathan Cape, 2005) p.243

36         Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, p.388

37         Pakula, Hannah, The Last Empress, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2010) p.297

38         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.229

39         Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty, p.385

40         Ibid., p.385

41         Life magazine, 30th June 1941

42         Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, p.388

43         Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty, p.411

44         Ibid., p.391

45         Ibid., p.437

46         Fenby, History of Modern China, p.170

47         Ibid., p.391

48         Ibid., p.396

49         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.239

50         Fenby, History of Modern China, p.402

51         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.276

52         Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.329

53         Ibid., p.334

54         Ibid., p.334

55         Chang and Halliday, Mao, p.242

56         Ibid., p.242

57         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.274

58         Short, Philip, Mao, A Life (Owl Books, 2001) p.399

59         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.274

60         McLynn, Frank, The Burma Campaign (Bodley Head, London, 2010) p.391

61        National Review, May 22nd 1986

62         Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.330

63         Ibid., p.282

64         Fox Butterfield, China, Alive in the Bitter Sea (Times Books, 1982) p.330

65         Chang and Halliday, Mao, p.239

67         Ibid., p.254

68         Pakula, Hannah, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China (Simon & Schuster, 2009) p.352

69         Chang and Halliday, Mao, p.227

70         Ibid., p.236

71         Ibid., p.238

72         Daily Telegraph Obituary 27th October 2009

73         Ibid.,

74         Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, p.491

75         Tzouliadis, Tim, The Forsaken (The Penguin Press 2008) p.217–226

76         Sandiland, Roger J., The Life and Political Economy of Laughlin Currie, New Dealer, Presidential Adviser, and Development Economist (Duke University, 1990) p.130

77         Ibid., p.132

78         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.283

79         ‘Wild Lilies’, Wang Shiwei, Liberation Daily

80         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.299

81         Ibid., p.283

82         Ibid., p.284

83         Ibid., p.284

84         Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty, p.406

85         Ibid., p.406

86         Ibid., p.403

87         Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.616

88         Ibid., p.617

89         Chang and Halliday, Mao, p.199

90         Ibid., p.199

91         Ibid., p.231

92         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.278

93         Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.335

94         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.278

95         Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.343

96         Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.287

97         Lohbeck, Don, Patrick J. Hurley: An American (Henry Regnery Co., Chicago, 1957) p.280

98         Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, p.500

99         Tuchman, Barbara, Stilwell, and the American Experience in China 1911 - 1945 (Macmillan, London, 1970) p.397

100       Mitter, China’s War with Japan, p.338

101       Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.288

102       Ibid., p.289

103       Ibid., p.291

104        Seagrave The Soong Dynasty, p.400

105        Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.291-2

106        Ibid., p.292

107        Ibid., p.294

108        Romanus, Charles F., and Riley Sunderland, China-Burma-India Theater, Stilwell’s Command Problems (Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington D.C. 1987) p.461

109        Dallek , Franklin D. Roosevelt, p.498

110        Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.234

111        Slim, Defeat into Victory, p.441

112        Hastings, Max, Nemesis, The Battle for Japan 1944-5 (Harper Perennial, London, 2008) p.236

113        Allen, Louis, Burma: The Longest War 1941 - 1945 (Pheonix, 2000) p.369

114        Dallek , Franklin D. Roosevelt, p.497

115        Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.297

116        Van de Ven, Hans J., War and Nationalism in China, 1925-1945 (London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) p.271

117        Ibid., p.273

118        Ibid., p.291

119        Ibid., p.291

120        Ibid., p.252

121        Ibid., p.269

122        McLynn, The Burma Campaign, p.407

123        Slim, Field Marshall Viscount, Defeat into Victory (Cassell, Oxord, 1956) p.441

124        McLynn, The Burma Campaign, p.308

125        Taylor, The Generalissimo, p.295

126        Ibid., p.295

127        Ibid., p.295

128        Romanus and Riley, China-Burma-India Theater, p.457