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

APPENDIX K: THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG

  1. Lindsay, Oliver, The Battle for Hong Kong 1941 – 1945 Hostage to Fortune (McGill- Queens University Press, Montreal, 2005) p.49
  2. Ibid., p.50
  3. Ibid., p.50
  4. Liddell Hart, Sir Basil, History of the Second World War (Da Capo Press, New York, 1999) p.279
  5. Churchill, Sir Winston, The Grand Alliance: Second World War, Vol. III (Pimlico, London, 2002) p.157
  6. Lindsay, The Battle for Hong Kong, p.55
  7. Ibid., p.6
  8. Brendon, Piers, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Vintage, London, 2008) p.641
  9. Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War, p.278
  10. Stacey, C. P., The Divine Mission: Mackenzie King and Hitler (University of Toronto Press, The Canadian Historical Review, LXI 4, 1980)
  11. Lindsay, The Battle for Hong Kong, p. 42
  12. Ibid., p.60
  13. Ibid., p.41
  14. Ibid., p.60
  15. Ibid., p.58
  16. Ferguson, Ted, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong (Double Day Canada, Toronto, 1980) p.129
  17. Felton, Mark, The British Military in the Middle Kingdom 1839 – 1997 (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013)
  18. Brandon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p.641
  19. Snow, Philip, The Fall of Hong Kong, Britain, China and The Japanese Occupation (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004) p.2
  20. Lindsay, The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941 – 1945, p.7
  21. Ferguson, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong, p.32
  22. Ibid., p.38
  23. Lindsay, The Battle for Hong Kong, p.66
  24. Ibid., p.71
  25. Ibid., p.115
  26. Ferguson, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong, p.32
  27. Ibid., p.71
  28. Ibid., p.49
  29. Ibid., p.86
  30. Lindsay, The Battle for Hong Kong, p.73
  31. Ibid., p.100
  32. Ibid., p.100
  33. Ferguson, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong, p.87
  34. Ibid., p.101
  35. Ibid., p.116
  36. Ibid., p.117
  37. Ibid., p.131
  38. Danchev, Alex and Dan Todman, ed., Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke (W&N, New Edition, 2002) p.211
  39. Ferguson, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong, p.131
  40. Ibid., p.131
  41. Horne, Race War! White Supremacy and the British Attack on the British Empire (NYU Press; New Ed edition, 2005) 177
  42. Ferguson, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong, p.131
  43. Ibid., p.146
  44. Brandon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p.641
  45. Lindsay, The Battle for Hong Kong, p.160
  46. Ferguson, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong, p.178
  47. Lindsay, The Battle for Hong Kong, p.131
  48. Ibid., p.182
  49. Ferguson, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong, p.210
  50. Ibid., p.211
  51. Horne, Gerald, Race War! 77
  52. Ibid., p.76
  53. Danchev and Todman, ed., Alanbrooke War Diaries, p.719
  54. Horne, Race War!, p.283
  55. Ibid., p.xi