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BIBLIOGRAPHY: HIROHITO'S WAR, THE PACIFIC WAR 1941 -1945

AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND

Bradley, Philip, The Battle of Wau, New Guinea’s Frontline 1942 – 3 (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008)

Brune, Peter, A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua (Crows Nest, New South Wales, 2003)

Coates, John, Bravery above Blunder: the 9th Australian Division at Finschhafen, Sattelburg, and Sio (Oxford University Press, 1999)

Colebatch, Hal G.P., Australia’s Secret War, How Unionists Sabotaged our Troops in World War II (Quadrant Books, Australia, 2013)

Collie, Craig and Marutani, Hajime, The Path of Infinite Sorrow, The Japanese on the Kokoda Track (Allen & Unwin, London, 2012)

Davidson, Audrey, Porton, A Deadly Trap (Boolarong Press, 2005)

Feldt, Eric, The Coastwatchers (OUP, Melbourne, 1946)

Ham, Paul, Kokoda (Bolinda Publishing 2012)

Hetherington, John, Blamey (FW Cheshire, Melbourne, 1954)

Hill, A.J., Wootten, Sir George Frederick (1893-1970), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16 (Melbourne University Press, 2002)

James, Dr. Karl, The Track (Military History Section, Australian War Memorial, Canberra 2009)

Keogh. E.G, South West Pacific 1941–45 (Melbourne: Grayflower Publications, 1965)

Lloyd and Hall, Backroom Briefings, John Curtin’s War (National Library of Australia, 1997)

Long, Galvin, Australia in the War 1939-45 (Griffin Press, Canberra, 1963)

Nelson, Harold W., Papuan Campaign: Buna-Sanananda Operation: 16 November 1942 – 23 January 1943 (Diane Publishing Company, 1997)

Odgers, George, Support During Lae-Nadzab-Finschhafen Operations. Vol II Air War Against Japan 1943 – 1945 (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1957)

Powell, Alan, The Third Force: ANGAU’s New Guinea War (Australia Army History Series, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Victoria, 2003)

Reid, Richard, For Valour: Australians and the Victoria Cross (Australia: Work and Turner Pty Ltd., 2000)

Uren, M., A Thousand Men at War_The Story of the 2/16th Battalion AIF: Australian Memorial: https://www.awm.gov.au/unit/U56059/

Water, Sydney David, The Royal New Zealand Navy (Wellington, Department of Internal Affairs, 1956)

Williams, Peter, The Kokoda Campaign, 1942, Myth and Reality (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012)


BURMA

Allen, Louis, Burma, The Longest War 1941-45 (Phoenix: New Edition, 2000)

Anders, Leslie, The Ledo Road, General Joseph W. Stilwell’s Highway to China (University of Oklahoma Press, 1965)

Annett, Roger, Drop Zone: Burma, Adventures in Allied Air Supply 1943 -1944 (Pen & Sword, Barnsley 2008)

Astor, Gerald, The Jungle War, Mavericks, Marauders, and Madmen (John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, 2004)

Aung San, Freedom from Fear (Penguin, New York,1995)

Baines, Frank, Chindit Affair, A Memoir of the War in Burma (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2011)

Barnard, Jack, The Hump (Clarke, Doble & Brendon, Plymouth, 1960)

Calvert, Michael, Fighting Mad, One Man’s Guerilla War (Leo Cooper, London, 2004)

Carew, Tim, The Longest Retreat, The Burma Campaign 1942 (Mayflower, 1972)

Colvin, John, Not Ordinary Men, The Story of the Battle of Kohima (Pen & Sword Military Classics, Barnsley, 2005: first published 1994)

Dillon, Terrance, Rangoon to Kohima (Regimental Headquarters, The Gloucester Regiment, 1978)

Drea, Edward J., ‘An Allied Interpretation of the Pacific War’. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army (University of Nebraska Press: Nebraska, 1998)

Fellowes-Gordon, Ian, The Battle for Naw Seng’s Kingdom: General Stilwell’s North Burma Campaign and its aftermath (Leo Cooper, 1971)

Ferguson, Bernard, Beyond the Chindwin, Being an Account of the Adventure of Number Five Column of the Wingate expedition into Burma (Fontana, 1971)

Fowler, William, We Gave Our Today: Burma 1941-5 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2009)

Fraser, George MacDonald, Quartered Safe Out Here, A Recollection of the War in Burma (Harper Collins, London, 2000)

Grant, Ian Lyell & Tamayama, Kazuo, Burma 1942: The Japanese Invasion (Zampi Press, Chichester, 2003)

Hodson, James Lansdale, War in the Sun (Read Books, London, 2008)

Hoppe, Billy, J., Lieutenant General William H. Tunner in the China-Burma-India "Hump" and Berlin Airlifts: A Case Study in Leadership in Development of Airlift Doctrine (Biblioscholar, 2012)

Keane, Fergal, Road of bones: The Epice Seige of Kohima (Harper Press, London, 2010)

Kinvig, Clifford, River Kwai Railway: The Story of the Burma-Siam Railway (Conway Maritime Edition, new edition 2005)

Kirby, Major General S. Woodburn, The War Against Japan: Volume IV, The Reconquest of Burma (Naval and Military Press, 2009)

Latimer, Jon, Burma: The Forgotten War (John Murray, London, 2004)

Lowry, Michael, Fighting Through to Kohima, A Memoir of War in India & Burma (Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2008: first published 2003)

Lowry, Wyatt and Cecil, No Mercy from the Japanese: A Survivors Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships 1942-1945 (Pen&Sword, Barnsley, 2008)

Lyman, Robert, Japan’s Last Bid for Victory (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2011)

Lyman, Robert, Slim, Master of War, Burma and the Birth of Modern Warfare (Constable and Robertson Ltd., Paperback, UK, 2004)

Manwaring, Randle, On the Road to Mandalay (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2006)

Masters, John, The Road Past Mandalay (Cassel Military: New Edition, 2012)

McGeoch, Ian, Mountbatten of Burma: Captain of War, Guardian of Peace (J.H.Haynes & Co., 1st Edition, 2009)

McLynn, Frank, The Burma Campaign (Bodley Head, London, 2010)

Miller, Russell, Uncle Bill, The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim (Weidenfeld &Nicolson, London, 2013)

Nesbit, Roy Conyers, The Battle for Burma (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2009)

Ogburn, Charlton, Jr., The Marauders (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1959)

Pearson, Michael, End Game Burma 1945, The Battle of Meiktila (Pen & Sword, 2010)

Pearson, Michael, The Burma Air Campaign 1941-1945 (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2006)

Prefer, Nathan, N., Vinegar Joe’s War, Stilwell’s Campaigns for Burma (Presidio, Novato, CA, 2000)

Prefer, Nathan, N., The Battle for Tinian, Vital Stepping Stone in America’s War Against Japan (Casemate, 2012)

Randle, John, Brigadier, Battle Tales from Burma (Leo Cooper, London, 2004)

Redding, Tom, War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944 (The History Press, 2011)

Rooney, David, Mad Mike, A Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2006)

Rottman, Gordon, The Japanese Army in World War II (Osprey, Oxford, 2005)

Sacouety, Troy J., The OSS in Burma, Jungle War against the Japanese (University Press of Kansas, 2013)

Shores, Christopher F., Air War for Burma: The Allied Forces Fight Back in South-East Asia 1942 – 1945 (Grub Street, 2005)

Shores, Christopher F., Bloody Shambles: The Complete Account of the Air War in the Far East, from the Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma, 1942 (Grub Street, 1993)

Slim, Field Marshall Viscount, Defeat into Victory (Cassell, Oxord, 1956)

Thompson, Julian, War in Burma, 1942-1945 (Pan Books, Oxford, 2003)

Thompson, Julian, Forgotten Voices of Burma, The Second World War’s Forgotten Conflict (Ebury Press, paperback, UK, 2010)

Twigg, Reg, Survivor on the River Kwai (Penguin, London, 2014)

Warren, Alan, Burma 1942, The Road from Rangoon to Mandalay (Continuum International Publishing Group, London, 2011)

Wax, Andrew, Born in the Jungles of Burma: Behind Enemy Lines in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)

Webster, Donovan, The Burma Road (MacMillan, London, 2004)

Wintle, Justin, Perfect Hostage: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma and the Generals (Arrow, London, 2007)

Wolpert, Stanley, A New History of India (Oxford University Press, 2003)

Young, Edward M., Meiktila 1945, The Battle to Liberate Burma (Osprey Publishing, 2004)

Ziegler, Philip, Personal Diary of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten 1943 – 6 (Collins; First Edition, 1988)


CANADA

Stacey, C. P., The Divine Mission: Mackenzie King and Hitler (Canadian Historical Review, Toronto, 1980)


CHINA

Bergère, Marie-Claire, Sun Yat Sen (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1998)

Bland, JOP and Backhouse, Edmund, China under the Empress Dowager, The History and Life of Tzu His (Earnshaw Books, Hong Kong, 2010)

Botjer, George F., A Short History of Nationalist China (Putnam, New York, 1979)

Butterfield, Fox, China, Alive in the Bitter Sea (Times Books, 1982)

Cantlie, James, Sun Yat Sen and the Awakening of China (General Books, Danvers MA, 2009)

Chang, Iris, The Rape of Nanking, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Basic Books, New York, 2011)

Chang, Yung, and Halliday Jon, Mao, The Unknown Story (Jonathan Cape, 2005)

Chi, Hsi-sheng, The Much Troubled Alliance: US-China Military Co-operation During the Pacific War (World Scientific, Singapore, 2015)

Colvin, John, Nomonhan (Quartet Books, London, 1999)

Dillon, Michael, China, A Modern History (IB Tauris, London, 2010)

Edmund, Oliver, China (New York Times, Volume 3 of Great Contemporary Issues, 1972)

Fenby, Jonathan, Generalissimo, Chiang Kai Shek and the China He Lost (The Free Press, London, 2003)

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

Ferguson, Ted, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong (Double Day Canada, Toronto, 1980)

Ford, Daniel, Flying Tigers, Claire Chennault and his American Volunteers 1941-1942 (Harper Collins, London, 2007)

Harmsen, Peter, Shanghai 1937, Stalingrad on the Yangtze (Casemate Publishers, Oxford, 2013)

Hestler, Anna, The Last Emperor, Prisoner of History (Form Asia Books, Hong Kong, 2006)

Hsü, Immanuel C.Y., The Rise of Modern China (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000: First Printed1970)

Joiner, Lynne, Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McArthy’s America and the Persecution of John S. Service (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2009)

Kempen, Thomas, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the Evolution of The Chinese Communist Leadership (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2000; reprint 2010)

Keay, John, A History of Modern China (Harpers Collins Publishers, London 2008)

Kissinger, Henry, On China (Allen Lane, London, 2011)

Levine, Steven I., A New Look at American Mediation in the Chinese Civil War: the Marshall Mission and Manchuria ( Diplomatic History, 1979)

Li, Laura Tyson, Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China’s Eternal First Lady (Grove, Atlantic Inc., 2007)

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

Mitter, Rana, Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China (University of California, 2000)

Moran, Miriam G., The Life Story of Grace Liddell Cox, Missionary in China (Lulu Press Inc., 2015)

Morley, J., Japan’s Road to War Deterrent Diplomacy (Columbia University Strength, New York, 1976)

Morley, J., The Fateful Choice Vol 2: Vol 2 Japan’s Road to the Pacific War (Columbia University Press, New York, 1980)

Morley, J., The China Quagmire, Japan’s Road to the Pacific War (Columbia University Press, New York, 1983)

Morley, J., Japan’s Road to the Pacific War: The Final Confrontation – Japan’s Negotiations with the United States (Columbia University Press, New York, 1994)

Nagatsuke, R., I was a Kamikaze (Abelard-Schuman, London, 1973)

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

Pfefer, Nathan, Vinegar Joe's War (Presidio Press, 2000)

Power, Brian, The Puppet Emperor, The Life of Pu Yi, The Last Emperor of China (Universe Book, New York, 1988)

Pu Yi, Aisin-Gioro, From Emperor to Citizen, The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi (Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2002)

Short, Philip, Mao, A Life (Owl Books, 2001)

Snow, Edgar, Red Star over China (Garden City Pub. Co., 1939)

Snow, Philip, The Fall of Hong Kong, Britain, China and The Japanese Occupation (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004)

Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Oxford University Press)

Surhone, Lambert M., National Revolutionary Army (VDM Publishing, Mauritius, 2010)

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

Terrill, Ross, The New Chinese Empire, And What It Means for the United States (Basic Books, New York, NY, 2004)

Tuchman, Barbara, Sand Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2001)

Seagrave, Sterling, The Soong Dynasty (Sidgewick & Jackson, London, 1985)

Sergeant, Harriet, Shanghai (Jonathan Cape, London, 1991)

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

Warner, Marina, The Dragon Empress, Life and Times of Tzu-his 1835-1908, Empress Dowager of China (Cardina, London, 1974)

Woo, X.L., Empress Dowager Cixi (Algora Publishing, US, 2002)


GENERAL

Basinger, Jeanine, The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 2003)

Buruma, The Wages of Guilt, Memories of War in Germany and Japan (Plume, 1995)

Craft, Nicholas & Fearon, Peter, ed. The Great Depresssion of the 1930s, Lessons for Today, Field, Alexander J., Chapt. 12, Economic Growth and Recovery in the United States: 1919 – 1941 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013)

Crozier, Andrew, The Causes of the Second World War (Blackwell, Oxford, 1997)

Daly, Erin, Dignity Rights, Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2012)

De Bary, William Theodore, Sources of East Asian Tradition: The Modern Period (Columbia University Press, New York, 2008)

Dumanski, Dianne, The End of the Long Summer; Why we must remake our civilization to survive on a volatile earth (Random House, New York, 2009)

Feis, Herbert, Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin, The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought (Princeton Legacy Library, First Printed1957, 2015)

Ferguson, Niall, The War of the World, History’s Age of Hatred (Penguin Books, London, 2007)

Gallicchio, Marc, The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in US-East Asia Relations (Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina 2007)

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

Hood, Jean, editor, Submarine, An Anthology of First Hand Accounts of the War under The Sea, 1939 – 1945 (Conway, 2007)

Kaplan, Philip, Naval Air: Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying (Pen and Sword Barnsley, 2013)

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

Lewis, Arthur W., Economic Survey 1919-1939 (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1953)

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

Martel, Gordon, Editor, The Origins of the Second World War (Routledge, Abingdon, Oxford, 1999, 2nd Edition)

Mishra, Pankaj, From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia (Picador reprint: 2013)

Murray, Williamson, War in the Air 1914-1945 (Harper Paperbacks, London, 2005)

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

Overy, Richard, with Andrew Wheatcroft, The Road to War (Vintage Books, London, 2009)

Overy, Richard, Why the Allies Won (Pimlico, London, 1995)

Rees, Goronwy, The Great Slump, Capitalism in Crisis 1929-1930 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1970)

Sandler, Stanley, World War II in the Pacific, Encyclopaedia (Garland Publishing, 2001)

Shepley, Nick, Red Sun at War Part II: Allied Defeat in the Far East (Andrews UK Ltd., 2012)

Spick, Mike, Fighter Pilot Tactics (Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, UK, 1983)

Straelen, Henricus Johannes Josephus Maria, New Diplomacy in the Far East (University of California, 2007)

Stone, Norman, A Short History of WWII (Allen Lane, London, 2013)

Tanaka, Yuki and Young, Marilyn B., (Editors) Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century History (The New Press, New York City, 2009)

Taylor, A.J.P., The Origins of the Second World War (Penguin, London, 1964)

Von Mises, Ludwig, Nation, State and Economy (Liberty Fund Inc, 2006)

Willmot, H.P., The Last Century of Sea Power, Vo 2, From Washington to Tokyo 1922 – 1945 (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indiana, 2010)


GERMANY

Krug, Hans-Joachim, Hirama, Yoichi, Sander-Nagashima, Berthold J., Niestlé, German-Japanese Naval Relations in World War II (Chatham Publishing, 2003)

Seki, Eiji, Mrs. Ferguson’s Tea Set, Japan and the Second World War, The Global Consequences Following Germany’s Sinking of SS Automedon in 1940 (Global Oriental, Folkstone, 1940)

Sprang, Christian W., Wippich, Rolf-Harald, Edited, Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945 (Routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 2008)


HONG KONG

Ferguson, Ted, Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong (Double Day Canada, Toronto, 1980)

Lindsay, Oliver and John R. Harris, The Battle for Hong Kong 1941 – 1945 (McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, 2005)


JAPAN

Agawa, Hiroyuki, The Reluctant Admiral, Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy (Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1982, First Paperback Edition)

Akira, Iriye, Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War, A Brief History with Documents and Essays (Bedford/St.Martins, Boston, 1999)

Alexander, Joseph, H., Utmost Savagery, The Three Days of Tarawa (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2008)

Atcherley, Sir Harold, Prisoner of Japan, A Personal War Diary, Singapore, Siam and Burma 1941-1945 (Memoirs Publishing, Cirencester, 2009)

Axell, Albert; Hideaki, Kase, Kamikaze: Japan’s Suicide Gods (Longman, New York 2002)

Baelz, Erwin, ed. Toku Baelz, Awakening Japan, The Diary of a German Doctor (Indiana Press University, Bloomington, 1931)

Bai, Gao, Arisawa Hiromi and His Theory for a Managed Economy, Bai Gao, Journal of Japanese Studies (Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter, 1994), Published by: The Society for Japanese Studies)

Bailey, Paul J., Post War Japan: 1945 to the Present (Blackwell Publishers, 1996)

Baldwin, Hanson W., Sea Fights and Shipwrecks (Hanover House, 1956)

Barnhart, Michael, Japan Prepares for Total War, The Search for Economic Security 1919 – 1941 (Cornell University, 1987)

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

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

Behr, Edward, Hirohito, Behind the Myth (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989)

Bergamini, David, Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy; How the Emperor Hirohito led Japan into war against the West (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006)

Bernstein, Barton J., Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender: Missed Opportunities, Little Known near Disasters, and Modern Memory (Diplomatic History, 19 March, 1995)

Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Duckworth, London, 2000)

Boister, Neil and Cryer, Robert, The Tokyo International Military Tribunal - A Reappraisal (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008)

Bouissou, Jean-Marie, Japan, The Burden of Success (Hurst & Co., London 2002: first published 1945)

Boyne, Walter, Clash of Titans (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1995)

Brackman, Arnold C., The Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials (William Morrow & Co., 1987)

Brandon, Piers, The Dark Valley, A Panorama of the 1930s (Jonathan Cape, London, 2000)

Brooks, Victor, Hell is Upon US, D-Day in the Pacific, Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944 (Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005)

Brown, David, Fighting Elites: Kamikaze (Gallery Books, New York, 1990)

Brown, Herbert C., Hell at Tassafaronga (Ancient Mariners, 2000)

Buell, Thomas B., The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond Spruance (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1987; reissue 2009)

Buell, Thomas B., Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2012)

Choucri, Nazli, Challenge of Japan Before World War II (Routledge, Oxford, 1992)

Clements, Jonathan, Samurai: A New History of the Warrior Elite (Constable and Robinson, 2010)

Collie, Craig & Hajime Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012)

Coogan, Andy, Tomorrow You Die (Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2013)

Cook, Charles O., The Battle of Cape Esperance: Encounter at Guadalcanal (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1992)

Crenshaw, Russell S., Jr., The Battle of Tassafaronga (Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1995)

D’Albas, Andrieu, Death of a Navy: The Fleets of the Mikado in the Second World War, 1931-1945 (Robert Hale, 1957)

Daws, Gavin and Gavan, Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific (William Morrow & Co., reprint1996)

Dickson, W.D., The Battle of the Philippine Sea (Littlehampton Book Services, 1975)  

Dower, John, Japan in War and Peace, Essays on History Race and Culture (Harper Collins, London, 1995)

Dower, John, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Aftermath of World War II (Allen Lane, London, 1999)

Drea, Edward J., In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army (University of Nebraska Press, Nebraska, 1998)

Dull, Paul, A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941 – 1945 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1978, Paperback 2007)

Duus, Peter, Editor, The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6 The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988, 9th Printing)

Duus, Peter; Myers, H. Ramon; Peattie, Mark R., Ed., The Japanese Wartime Empire 1931-1945 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2006)

Felton, Mark, Japan’s Gestapo, Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2009)

Ferrell, Robert H., ed. Harry S. Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History (High Plains, Worland, Wyoming, 1996)

Flath, David, The Japanese Economy (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Ford, Douglas, The Pacific War (Continuum International Publishing, London, 2012)

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

Freiner, Nicole, The Social and Gender Politics of Confucian Nationalism: Women and the Japanese Nation State (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2012)

Fujiwara, Shōwa tennō no ju-go nen sensō (The Shōwa Emperor's Fifteen Year War) (Aoki Shoten, 1991)

Fuller, Richard, Shōkan, Hirohito’s Samurai (Cassell, London, 1992)

Gamble, Bruce, Fortress Rabaul, The Battle for the Southwest Pacific (Zenith Press, Mineapolis, 2010)

Gamble, Bruce, Invasion Rabaul (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2006)

Gamble, Bruce, Target Rabaul, The Allied Siege of Japan’s Most Famous Stronghold, March 1943 – August 1945 (Zenith Press, Mineappolis, 2013)

Gannon, Michael V., Pearl Harbor Betrayed (Henry Holt 2001)

Giffard, Sydney, Japan among the Powers 1890 – 1990 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994)

Ginn, John L., Sugamo Prison, Tokyo: An Account of the Trial and Sentencing of Japanese War Criminals in 1948, by a U.S. Participant (McFarland & Co., reprint 2011)

Gold, Hal, Unit 731, Testimony (Tuttle Publishing, North Clarendon, 2007)

Gordon, Andrew, A Modern History of Japan (Oxford University Press, New York, 2009)

Gordon, Andrew, Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991)

Gruhl, Werner, Imperial Japan’s World War Two, 1931 – 1945 (Translated Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, 2007)

Hachiya, Michihiko, Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician (University of North Carolina Press, Carolina, 1995)

Ham, Paul, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and their Aftermath (Black Swan, London, 2013)

Hammel, Eric, Aces Against Japan II: The American Aces Speak (Pacifica Military History, 2009)

Hammel, Eric, Carrier Clash, The Invasion of Guadalcanal & the Battle of the Eastern Solomons (Pacifica Press, Pacifica CA, 1997)

Hammel, Eric, Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea, The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (Pacifica Press, Pacifica CA, 1997)

Hando, Kazutoshi, Pacific War Research Society, Japan’s Longest Day (Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1965)

Hara, Tameichi, Japanese Destroyer Captain (1961, Ballantine Books, New York & Toronto)

Harries, Meirion, Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Army (Random House, reprint: 1994)

Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman and the Surrender of Japan (Harvard University Press, Harvard, 2006)

Hashimoto, Mochisura, Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet (Reprinted Progressive Press, New York, 2010: Originally Henry Holt, 1954)

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

Hatta, Ikuhiko, Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and their Aces, 1931 – 1945 (Grub Street, London, 2002)

Henry, Chris, The Battle of the Coral Sea (Compendium, London, 2003)

Hiroshi, Takahashi, Heika Otazune Moshiagemasu (Bungei Shinjusha, Tokyo, 1988)

Holmes, W.J., Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific War During World War II (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1979)

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

Horikoshi, Jiro, Eagles of Mitsubishi, The Story of the Zero Fighter (University of Washington Press, Revised Edition 1992)

Hotta, Eri, 1941, Countdown to Infamy (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003)

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

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, Inferno, The Firebombing of Japan, March 9th – August 15th, 1945 (Madison Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2000)

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, Blue Skies and Blood: The Battle of the Coral Sea (I-Books, 2003)

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, The Last Kamikaze (Praeger Publishers Inc., Westport, Connecticut, 1993)

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, Yamamoto: The Man Who Planned Pearl Harbor (Mcgraw Hill, 1990)

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, Warlord: Tojo Against the World (First Cooper Square Press, 2001: first published 1993)

Iguchi, Takeo, Demystifying Pearl Harbor: A New Perspective From Japan (I-House Press, 2010)

Inoguchi, Rikihei; Nakajima, Tadashi and Pineau, Roger, The Divine Wind (Hutchinson & Co., London, 1959)

Irokwawa, Daikichi, The Age of Hirohito, In Search of Modern Japan (The Free Press, New York, 1995)

Kawabata, Yasunari, The Master of Go (Yellow Jersey Press, London, 2006)

Kawahara, Toshiaki, Hirohito and his Times (Kodansha America, 1990)

Kilpatrick, C.W., Naval Night Battles of the Solomons (Exposition Press, 1987)

Kojima Noboru, Tenno to Senso sekinin (Tokyo: Bungei shunjiisha,1988)

Kushner, Barrack, The Thought War, Japanese Imperial Propaganda (University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii, 2007)

Kushner, Barrack, Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (Harvard University Press, 2015)

Kuwahara, Yasuo and Gordon T. Allred, Kamikaze: A Japanese Pilot’s own Spectacular Story of the Famous Suicide Squadrons (American Legacy Media, 2007)

Large, Stephen, Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan (Routledge, London, 1992)

Lebra, Joyce Chapman, Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in WWII; Readings and Documents (Oxford University Press, 1975)

Li, Peter, Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice (Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, Fifth Print 2009: First Publication 2003)

Lippman, David H., Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Turning Point in the Pacific War (The Historynet.com, 2006)

Lippman, David H., Battle of the Coral Sea: www.avalanchepress.com, 2013

Lord, Walter, Day of Infamy (Henry Holt, 1957)

Lord, Walter, Incredible Victory (Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 2000)

Lundstrom, John B., Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2006)

Lundstrom, John B., First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2005)

MacArthur, Brian, Surviving the Sword, Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 (Abacus, London, 2005)

Maga, Timothy, Judgement at Tokyo, The Japanese War Crimes Trials (University of Kentucky, 2001)

Manchester, William, American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 -1964 (Dell Publishing, New York, 1978)

Martin, Bernd, Japan and Germany in the Modern World (Berghahn Books, Oxford, 1995)

Maynard, Roger, Hell’s Heroes: The Forgotten Story of the Worst P.O.W. Camp in Japan (Harper Collins Australia, Sydney 2009)

Mendelssohn, Peter de, Japan’s Political Warfare (Routledge, 2010)

Millot, Bernard, Divine Thunder: The Life and death of the Kamikaze (Macdonald, 1971)

Morimatsu, Toshio, Japanese Intelligence in WWII (Hakuteisha, Shohan Edition, 1983)

Morison, Samuel Eliot, The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 – April 1942, vol. 3 of History of United States Naval Operations World War II (Castle Books, 1958: reissue 2001)

Morris, Ivan, The Nobility of Failure, Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan (Kurodahan, Fukuoka, 2013)

Morris, Richard Knowles PhD., Who Built Those Subs? (Naval History Magazine, United States Naval Institute, October 1998)

Mosk, Car, Japanese Economic Development, Markets, Norms, Structures (Routledge, Oxford, 2008)

Nagatsuka, R., I was a Kamikaze (Abelard-Schuman, London, 1973)

Newcomb, Richard F., The Battle of Savo Island: The Harrowing Account of the Disastrous Night Battle off Guadalcanal that nearly destroyed the Pacific Fleet in August 1942 (Owl Books, New York, 1961)

Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko, Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006)

Okakura, Kakuzo, The Book of Tea (Penguin Classics, London, 2010)

Okano, Kaori; Motonori Tsuchiya, Education in Contemporary Japan (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Orita, Zenji, I-Boat Captain (Major Books, 1976)

Overy, Richard, War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (Carlton Books, 2012)

Parillo, Mark P., The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1993)

Parker, Frederick D., Pearl Harbor Revisited: United States Navy Communications Intelligence 1924-1941 (Center for Cryptological History, 1994)

Pauer, Erich, Japan’s War Economy (Routledge Studies in the Growth of Economies of Asia, 2002)

Peattie, Mark R., Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909-1941 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1999)

Peattie, Mark R. & David C. Evans, Kaigun, Strategy, Tactics and Technology (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1997)

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

Piccagallo, Philip, The Japanese on Trial: Allied War Crimes Operations in the East, 1945-1951 (University of Texas Press, 2011)

Reardon, Jim, Cracking the Zero Mystery; How the US learned to beat Japan’s Vaunted World War II Fighter Plane (Stackpole Books, 1990)

Rees, Lawrence, Horror in the East (BBC books, 2011)

Reynolds, Bruce, Joseph P. Sottile, Ed., The Fascist Era: Imperial Japan and the Axis Alliance in Historical Perspective, Japan in the Fascist Era (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2004)

Roberts, John G., Mitsui, Three Centuries of a Japanese Business (Weatherhall Inc., New York, 1983)

Roling, B.V.A and Antonio Cassese, The Tokyo Trial and Beyond (Polity Press, Cambridge UK, 1994)

Rottman, Gordon L., Japanese Army in World War II, Conquest of the Pacific 1941-2 (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2005)

Saaler, Sven and Koschmann J. Victor, Pan Asianism in Modern Japanese History Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders (Routledge, Abindgon, Oxford, 2007)

Sakaida, Henry, Japanese Army Air Force Aces, 1937-1945 (Osprey, Oxford, 1997)

Sakaida, Henry, Imperial Japanese Navy Aces, 1937-1945 (Osprey, Oxford, 1998)

Scalapino, Robert, ed., The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1977)

Sheftall, Mordecai G., Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze (Caliber, 2005)

Sherwin, Martin, A World Destroyed, Hiroshima and Its Legacies (Stanford University Press, 2003: First published 1975)

Smethurst, Richard, From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister, Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s Keynes (Harvard University Press, 2009)

Smith, Douglas V., Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm’s Way (US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2006)

Smith, Larry, Iwo Jima (WW Norton & Company Inc., NY, 2008)

Soseki, Natsume, Kusamakura (Penguin, London, 2008; first published 1906)

Stafford, Edward P., The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2002)

Stille, Mark, USN Carriers vs IJN Carriers: The Pacific 1942 (Osprey, New York, 2007)

Stille, Mark, Santa Cruz 1942: Carrier Duel in the South Pacific (New York, Osprey, 2012)

Stille, Mark, Yamamoto Isoroku (Osprey, Oxford, 2012)

Storry, Richard, A History of Modern Japan (Penguin Book, 1991)

Szpilman, Christopher W.A., Kanokogi Kazunobu: Imperial Asia, 1937, in Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, Volume 2: 1920 - Present, ed. Sven Saaler and Christopher W.A. Szpilman (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011)

Szpilman, Christopher W.A., Kita Ikki and the Politics of Coercion (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002)

Takaki, Koji and Sakaida, Henry, B-29 Hunters of the JAAF (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2001)

Takaki, Ronald, Hiroshima, Why America Dropped the Atom Bomb (Little Brown and Company, New York, 1995)

Takemae, Eiji, The Allied Occupation of Japan (Continuum, New York, 2002)

Tamogami, Toshio, Was Japan an Aggressor? (The Shocking Truth about Modern History, 2008)

Tanizaki, Junichiro, Some Prefer Nettles (Vintage, London, 2001; first published 1929)

Thompson, Peter, Pacific Fury (William Heinemann, Australia, 2008)

Tillman Barrett, Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II (New American Library, 2006)

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

Totani, Yuma, The Tokyo War Crimes Trial (The Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2008)

Tsurumi, Shunsuke, An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan (Routledge, Oxford, reprint 2010)

Urquhart, Alistair, The Forgotten Highlander (Abacus, London, 2010)

Utley, Jonathan G., Going to War with Japan 1937 – 1941 (Fordham University Press, New York, 2005)

Von Staden, Peter, Business Government Relations (Routledge, Oxford, 2008)

Wakabayashi, Bob, Tadashi, Emperor Hirohito on Localized Aggression in China (York University, Toronto)

Warner, Marina, The Dragon Empress, Life and Times of Tzu-his (Cardinal, London, 1974)

Weintraub, Stanley, The Last Great Victory (Truman, Talley Books, Penguin Group, New York, 1996)

Weston, Mark, Giants of Japan (Kodansha America, New York, 1999)

Wilmott, H.P., Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2008)

Wilmott, H.P., The Battle of Leyte Gulf, The Last Fleet Action (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 2005)

Wilmott H.P., The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies February to June 1942 (1983, Naval Institute Press, Annopolis, Maryland)

Wilson, Dick, When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 (New York: The Viking Press, 1982)

Wohlsletter, Roberta, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1962)

Wright, Derrick, The Battle For Iwo Jima 1945 (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2003)

Wukovits, John, The Battle of Tarawa, One Square Mile of Hell (NAL Caliber, NY, 2007)

Yahara, Hiromichi, The Battle for Okinawa (Wiley, 2002)

Yamashita, Samuel, Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese (University of Hawaii Press, September 2005)

Yoshimura, Akira, Battleship Musashi, The Making and Sinking of the World’s Biggest Battleship (Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, 1999)

Yuasa, Katsuei, Kannami and Document of Flames (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005, first published 1935)

Zaloga, Steven, Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944-5 (Osprey, Barnsley, 2005)


NETHERLANDS

Bartsch, William H., Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 (Texas A&M University Military History Series, 2010)

Burton, John, Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor (US Naval Institute Press, 2006)

Cull, Brian, Buffaloes over Singapore (Grub Street Publishing, 2004)

Jeffreys, Alan; Anderson, Duncan, British Army in the Far East 1941-45 (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2005)

Johnston, George H., The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II, The Toughest Fighting in the World (Westholme, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 2011)

Klemen, L., Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942: www.dutcheastindies.webs.com, 1999

Krancher, Jan A., The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-49 (McFarland & Co., 2003)

Ockerse, Ralph, and Evelijn Blaney, Our Childhood in the Former Colonial Dutch East Indies (Xlibris, US, 2011)

Shores, Christopher, Bloody Shambles: Volume One (Grub Street Publishing, London, 2002)

Shores, Christopher, Bloody Shambles: Volume Two (Grub Street Publishing 2002)

Thomas, David, Battle of the Java Sea (Pan Books, London, 1968)

Womack, Tom, Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan: The Defense of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942 (McFarland & Co., 2006)


NEW GUINEA

Anderson, Charles R., Papua, World War II Campaign Brochures (United States Army Center of Military History, Washington D.C.)

Bergerud, Eric M., Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, 2000)

Bradley, Philip, The Battle of Wau, New Guinea’s Frontline 1942 – 3 (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008)

Bradley, Philip, To Salamaua (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Dexter, David, Volume VI, The New Guinea Offensives. Australia in the war of 1939-1945 (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961)

Drea, Edward J., Papua (World War II Campaign Brochures. Washington D.C.)

Frank, Richard B, Strategy, Command and the Solomons, Guadlacanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (Random House, New York, 2000)

Gailey, Harry A., MacArthur's Victory: The War In New Guinea 1943–1944 (Random House, New York, 2004)

Gamble, Bruce, Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 – April 1943 (Zenith Press, Minneapolis, 2010)

Griffith, Brigadier- General Samuel B., Battle For the Solomons, History of the Second Wold War (BPC Publishing, Hicksvilled, NY, 1979)

Griffith, Thomas E., Jr., MacArthur's Airman: General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998)

Hata, Ikuhiko, Izawa, Yasuho; Shores, Japanese Naval Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces 1932–1945 (London: Grub Street, 2011)

Leary, William M., We Shall Return!: MacArthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942–1945 (University Press of Kentucky, 2004)

McAulay, Lex, Battle of the Bismarck Sea: 3 March 1943 (Maryborough, Queensland: Banner Books, Maryborough, Queensland, 2008)    

McAulay, Lex, Into the Dragon's Jaws/the Fifth Air Force over Rabaul, 1943 (Champlin Fighter Museum Pr., 1987)

McCarthy, Dudley, Volume V, South-West Pacific Area_First Year: Kodada to Wau, Australia in the War of 1939-1945 (Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1959)

McGee, William L., The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville--Pacific War Turning Point, Volume 2 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII) (BMC Publications, 2002)

Morison, Samuel Eliot, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, July 22nd 1941 – May 1st 1944, vol. 6: History of United States (Castle Books, US, 2001)

Rodman, Matthew K., A War of their Own: Bombers Over the Southwest Pacific (Maxwell Air Force Base, Air University, Alabama, 2005)

Sakaida, Henry, The Siege of Rabaul (Phalanx, St. Paul, MN, USA, 1996)

Taafe, Stephen R., MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (University Press of Kansas, Kansas, U.S.A., 2006)

Wesley, Frank; Cate, James Lea. The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944. The Army Air Forces in World War II (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1964)


PHILIPPINES

Bartsch, William H., Doomed at the Start, American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-2 (Texas A&M University, 1992)

Bartsch, William H. 8 December 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor (Texas A&M University Press, Texas, 2003)

Belote, James H.; William M. Belote, Corregidor: The Saga of a Fortress (Harper & Row, 1967)

Breuer, William B., Retaking the Philippines, America’s Return to Corregidor and Bataan: October 1944-March 1945 (St.Martin’s Press, New York, 1986)

Buencamino, Victor, Memoirs of Victor Buencamino: A Biography 1888 – 1977 (Historical Conversation Society, The University of Michigan, 1996)

Burton, John, Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor (US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2006)

Chun, Clayton, The Fall of the Philippines 1941–42 (Osprey Publishing; Osprey Campaign Series No. 243, Oxford, 2012)

Connaughton, Richard, MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines (New York: The Overlook Press, 2001)

Edmunds, Walter D, They Fought with What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941–1942 (College Station, Texas, USA: Little, Brown and Company: 1951 and 1992 reprint)

Gordon, John, Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2011)

Morris, Eric, Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II (Cooper Square Press, 2000)

Schultz, Duane, Hero of Bataan: The story of General Johnathan M Wainwright (St Martin's Press, 1981)

Waldron, Ben; Emily Burneson, Corregidor: From Paradise to Hell! (Trafford Publishing, 2006)


RUSSIA/SOVIET UNION

Bellamy, Chris, Absolute War, Soviet Russia in the Second World War (Pan, London, 2009)

Colvin, John, Nomonhan (Quartet Books, London 1999)

Coox, Alvin D., Nomonhan: Japan against Russia (Stanford University Press, reprint 1985)

Forczyk, Robert, Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2009)

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

Hosking, Geoffrey, Russia, People & Empire, 1552 -1917 (Harper Collins, London, 1997)

Jukes, Geoffry, The Russo-Japanese War 1904-5 (Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2002)

Kowner, Rotem, Editor, The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War (Routledge, New York, NY, 2007)

Nedialkov, Dimitar, In the Skies of Nomonhan, Japan versus Russia, May – September 1939 (Crécy Publishing Limited, Manchester, 2005)

Olender, Piotr, Russo-Japanese Naval War, 1905 Vol.1 (Mushroom Models Publications, Peterfield, Hampshire, 2009)

Overy, Richard, Russia’s War, 1941-1945 (Penguin, London, 1999)

Rosefielde, Steven, Red Holocaust (Routledge, Oxford, 2010)

Sakurai, Tadayoshi, Human Bullets, As Soldier’s Story of the Russo-Japanese War (Bison Books, Nebraska, 1999)

Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Peter, Memoirs vol. 2. (Moscow, 1946)

Warner, Dennis and Peggy, The Tide at Sunrise, A History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904 – 1905 (Routledge, Oxford, 2002)

Zhukov, Georgii Kontantinovich, The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov (Delacorte Press, New York, 1971)


SINGAPORE and MALAYA

Brown, Chris, Singapore 1942, Battle Story (The History Press, Stroud, 2012)

Burton, John, Fortnight of infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2006)

Cull, Brian, and Sortehaug, Paul, Hurricanes Over Singapore: RAF, RNZAF and NEI Fighters in Action Against the Japanese Over the Island and the Netherlands East Indies, 1942 (Grub Street, London, 2004)

Foong Choong Hon, Eternal Vigilance, The Price of Freedom (Asiapac Books, Singapore, 2006)

Jeffreys, Alan; Anderson, Duncan, British Army in the Far East 1941-45 (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2005)

Kirby, Woodburn S., Singapore, The Chain of Disaster (Macmillan, London, 1971)

Kitching, Thomas, Life and Death in Chiangi: The War and Internment Diary of Thomas Kitching, 1942 – 1944 (Landmark Books Pte., Singapore, 2014)

Klemen, L.; Bert Kossen, Pierre-Emmanuel Bernaudin, Dr. Leo Niehorster, Akira Takizawa, Sean Carr, Jim Broshot, Nowfel Leulliot, Seventy minutes before Pearl Harbor – The Landing at Kota Bharu, Malaya, on December 7th ‘Seventy minutes before Pearl Harbor – The landing at Kota Bharu, Malaya, on December 7th, Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942: www.oocities.org/dutcheastindies/kota_bharu.1999-2000

Leasor, James, Singapore: The Battle that Changed the World (House of Stratus, 2001)

Moffat, Jonathan and Audrey Holmes McCormick, Moon Over Malaya, A Tale of Argyll and Marines (The History Press Ltd., UK, 2003)

Moreman, Tim, The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, 1941-45 (Frank Cass, Abingdon, 2005)

Nicholson, Arthur, Hostages to Fortune: Winston Churchill and the Loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse (Sutton Publishing, 2005)

Owen, Frank, The Fall of Singapore (Penguin, London, 2001)

Shennan, Margaret, Out in the Midday Sun, The British in Malaysia, 1880-1960 (John Murray, London, 2000)

Smith, Colin, Singapore Burning, Heroism and Surrender in World War II (Viking, London, 2005)

Thompson, Peter, The Battle for Singapore, The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II (Piatkus Books, London, 2004)

Tsuji, Masanobu & Margaret E. Lake, tr., Japan’s Greatest Victory, Britain’s Worst Defeat (Da Capo Press, New York, 1997)

Tsuji, Masanobu, Singapore 1941 -1942, The Japanese Version of the Malayan Campaign of World War II (Oxford University Press, Australia and New Zealand, 1988)

Warren, Alan, Britain’s Greatest Defeat, Singapore 1942 (Continuum International Publishing Group, Lancaster, 2007)


TAIWAN

Ching, Leo T.S., Becoming Japanese: Colonial Japan and the Politics of Identity (University of Los Angeles Press, London, England, 2001)

Denny, Roy, Taiwan, A Political History (Cornell University Press, Cornell, 2003)

Rubinstein, Murray A., A New History of Taiwan (M.E.Sharpe, New York, 2007)


UNITED KINGDOM

Ed Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord, War Diaries 1939 – 1945 (Phoenix, London, 2002)

Barnett, Corelli, The Collapse of British Power (Pan Books, London, 2002)

Bayly, Christopher Alan; Timothy Norman, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2005)

Bond, Brian, Tachikawa, Kyoichi, Hayashi, Yoshinaga, British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War 1941-1945 (Routledge, Oxford, 2004)

Brendon, Piers, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Vintage Books, London, 2008)

Churchill, Winston, Step by Step (Odhams Press Limited, London, 1947: first published 1939)

Churchill, Winston S., Triumph and Tragedy (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1953)

Clark, Peter, The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire (Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2008)

Hoare, J.E., ed., Biographical Portraits, Britain and Japan (Japan Library, Richmond, Surrey, 1999)

Hobbs, David, The British Pacific Fleet (Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, 2011)

Horne, Gerald, Race War! White Supremacy and the British Attack on the British Empire (NYU Press, New York, New Edition 2005)

Hough, Richard, Moutbatten, Hero of Our Time (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980)

James, Lawrence, Churchill and Empire (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013)

Keegan, John, The Second World War (Pimlico, London, 1997: first published 1989)

Liddell Hart, Sir Basil, History of the Second World War (Da Capo Press, New York, 1999)

Lloyd, T.O, The British Empire, 1558-1995 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996)

Mars, Alastair, British Submarines at War 1939 – 1945 (William Kimber, London, 1971)

Marston, Daniel P., Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army in the Burma Campaign (Greenwood Press, 2003)

McCartney, Innes, British Submarines 1939 – 1945 (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2006)

Moreman, Tim, The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, 1941-45: Fighting Methods, Doctrine and Training for Jungle Warfare (Routledge 2005)

Muller, James, Churchill as Peacemaker (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003)

Nicholson, Arthur, Hostages to Fortune: Winston Churchill and the Loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse (Sutton Publishing, 2005)

Nish, Ian Hill, Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919-1952: Papers of the Anglo-Japanese (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010)

Overy, Richard, The Bombing War, Europe 1939-1945 (Allen Lane, London, 2013)

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

Puddefoot, Geoff, Ready for Anything: The Royal Fleet Auxilliary 1905 - 1950 (Seaforth Publishing, 2010)

Rhodes James, Robert, ed., Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in Peace and War: Collected Speeches, 1897-1963 (Penguin, London, 1992: first published 1980)

Schofield, Victoria, Wavell, Soldier & Statesman (John Murray, London, 2006)

Wells, Mark, K., Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War (Routledge, Oxford, 1995)

Zeigler, Philip, Mountbatten, The Official Biography (Knopf, London, 1985)


UNITED STATES

Acheson, Dean, Present at the Creation, My Years in the State Department (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1965)

Acheson, Dean, The White House Years: Mandate for Change: 1953-1956: A Personal Account (New York: Doubleday, 1963)

Adamson, Hans Christian; Kosco, George Francis, Halsey’s Typhoon: A First hand account of How two Typhoons, More Powerful Than the Japanese, Dealt Death and Destruction to Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet (Crown Publishers, New York, 1967)

Adamson, Hans Christian, and Lockwood, Hellcats of the Sea (Greenberg, 1955)

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

Akira, Iriye, The Origins of the Second World War In Asia and the Pacific (Pearson Education, Harlow, Essex, UK, 1987)

Alperovitz, Gar, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Vintage Books, New York, 1995)

Ambrose, Hugh, The Pacific (Canongate Books, New York, 2010)

Ambrose Stephen E. and Douglas G. Brinkley, Eds., American Foreign Policy since 1938 (Penguin, New York, 8th Revised Edition, 1997)

Ambrose, Stephen, Eisenhower, Soldier and President (Simon & Schuster, London, 2003)

Anders, Leslie, The Ledo Road: General Joseph W. Stilwell’s highway to China (University of Oklahoma Press, 1965)

Averill, Gerald P., Mustang (Presidio Press, Novato California, 1987)

Bagby, Wesley M., The Eagle Dragon Alliance: America’s Relations with China in World War II (University of Delaware Press, Newark NJ, 1992)

Baldwin, Hanson, Oil Strategy in WWII (American Petroleum Institute Quarterly –Centenial Issue)

Ballantine, Duncan S., US Naval Logistics in the Second World War (Diane Publishing Company., 1998)

Barr, James A., Airpower Employment of the Fifth Air Force in the World War II Southwest Pacific Theater (M.A. Thesis, Maxwell Air Force Base, 1997)

Bates, Richard, The Battle of Savo Island, Strategical and Tactical Analysis Part I (Naval War College, Annapolis, Maryland, 1950)

Belote, J., Titans of the Sea (Harper and Row, New York, 1975)

Black, Conrad, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Champion of Freedom (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2003)

Blair, Clay, Silent Victory: The US Submarine War Against Japan (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2001)

Borch, Frederic and Daniel Martinez, Kimmel, Short and Pearl Harbor: The Final Report Revealed (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2004)

Borneman, Walter R., The Admirals, Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five Star Admirals Who won the War at Sea (Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012)

Boyington, Gregory, Baa, Baa Black Sheep (Bantam, New York, 1958)

Brinkley, Douglas, The Man Who won the War for Us (American Heritage, 20000101, Vol. 51, Issue 3)

Burbeck, James, Invasion of Peleliu (The War Times Journal, 2008)

Calhoun, C. Raymond, Typhoon, The Other Enemy: The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1994)

Camp, Dick, Last Man Standing: The 1st Marine Regiment on Peleliu, September 15-21 (Zenith Press, reprint: 2011)

Campbell, James, The Color of War, How one Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America (Crown Publishers, New York, 2012)

Campbell, James, The Ghost Mountain Boys, Their Epic March and their Terrifying Battle for New Guinea, The Forgotten War of the South Pacific (Broadway Books, 2008)

Carew, Michael G., Becoming the Arsenal: The American Industrial Mobilization for World War II, 1938-1942 (University Press of America, 2010)

Carlson, Elliot, Joe Rochefort’s War, The Odyssey of the Codebreaker who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2011)

Chace, James, Acheson, The Secretary of State Who Created the American World (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1998)

Chaplin, Breaching the Mariannas, The Battle for Saipan (Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013)

Chilstrom, John S., Mines Away!: The Significance of US Army Air Force Minelaying in World War II (War College Series, 2015)

Chomsky, Noam, American Power and the New Mandarins (New Press, New York, 2002)

Christ, James F., Battalion of the Damned: The 1st Marine Paratroops at Gavutu and Bloody Ridge, 1942 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2007)  

Christley, Jim; Bryan, Tony, US Submarines 1941 – 45 (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 1941 – 1945)

Chun, Clayton K.S, The Doolittle Raid: America’s first strike back at Japan (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2006)  

Chynoweth, Bradford Grethen, Memoirs (Exposition Press; Hicksville, NY 1975)

Clausen, Henry C. and Bruce Lee, Pearl Harbor; Final Judgement (Da Capo Press Inc., 2001)

Coakley , Robert W., and Leighton Richard M., The US Army in World War II: Global Logistics and Strategy, 1943-1945 (Office of the Chief of Military History, US Army, Washington, 1968)

Compton A.H., E.O. Lawrence, J.R. Oppenheimer, and E. Fermi, Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons (US National Archives, Record Group 77, Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Manhattan Engineer District, Harrison-Bundy File, Folder 76)

Connery, Robert Howe, The Navy and the Industrial Mobilization in World War II (Da Capo Press, NY, 1972)

Coox, Alvin D., Air War Against Japan (from Cooling B. Franklin, Case studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority, Centre for Air Force History, Washington)

Coox, Alvin D., Japan: The Final Agony (Purnell’s History of the Second World War, Macdonald & Co., 1971)

Correll, John T., The Matterhorn Missions (www.airforcemagazine.com March 2009)

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

Crane, Conrad, Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Air Power Strategy in World War II (University Press of Kansas, 1993)

Craven, Wesley; Cate, James (editors) The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki (ibiblio .org The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol V, The University of Chicago, 1953)

Cray, Ed, General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (Cooper Square Press, New York, 1990)

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

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