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 O. JAPANESE – SOVIET CONFLICT IN SIBERIA, MONGOLIA AND MANCHURIA

1           Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Peter, Memoirs vol. 2 (Moscow, 1946) p. 56–57

2           Muller, James, Churchill as Peacemaker (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003) p.29

3           Graves, General William S., America’s Siberian Adventure, Chapter 3: Before the Armistice: www.marxists.org/archive/graves/1931/siberian.../ch03.htm

4           Translation of Telegram to Ambassador Sato 11 July at 3.00 p.m.: www.nuclearfiles.org › Library › Correspondence

5           Beauchamp, Edward, History of Contemporary Japan Since World War II (Routledge, London, 2013) p.117

6           Ibid., p.117

7           Ibid., p.117

8           Dallek, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 (Oxford University Press, US, 1995) p.517

9             Ibid., p.517

10           Ibid., p.518

11           Smith, Jean Edward, FDR (Random House, New York, 2007) p.632

12           Monograph 154, Record of Operations Against Soviet Russia, Eastern Front 1945: Interviews of Japanese Officers (Military History Section of the Headquarters, US Army Forces East, and distributed by the Office of the Chief of Military History, US Department of the Army) p.25

13          Ibid., p.1

14           Ibid., p.28

15           Ibid., p.40

16           Ibid., p.41

17           Ibid., p.55-56

18           Ibid., p.55-56

19          Ibid., p.156

20           Ibid., p.156

21           Frank, Richard B., Downfall, The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (Random House, New York, 1999) p.281

22           Glantz, David M., August Storm, Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945 (Frank Cass, London, 2003) p.208

23           Ibid., August Storm, p.28

24           Ibid., August Storm, p.28

25           Takemai, Eiji, The Allied Occupation of Japan (Continuum, New York, 2002) p.45

26         Monograph 154., Record of Operation against Soviet Russian, p.6

27         Glantz, August Storm, p.90

28         Ibid., p.92

29         Hastings, Nemesis, The Battle for Japan, 1944 – 1945 (Harper Perennial, London, 2008) p.576

30         Glantz, August Storm, p.252

31         Takemai, Eiji, The Allied Occupation of Japan, p.46