The Book Thread. **Updated***
Moderators: wdolson, MOD_War-in-the-Pacific-Admirals-Edition
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
Can you recommend some good books about the Battle of the Coral Sea and Marianas? Thanks.
RE: the Book Thread - Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
Surprised this one isn't in the thread yet. I found it at the library as a young man about 15 years ago, and recently bought it used off of Amazon. My copy didn't come with the jacket, but that's OK...
http://www.amazon.com/The-campaign-Guad ... 385043546/
A couple hundred pages with an extensive appendix and bibliography. Hundreds of drawings and maps of the campaign. Every major engagement is detailed. Hardcover, and you can get a copy in "very good" or "like new" condition for about $15 US.
It really is an amazing book. I got my copy yesterday, and while paging through I noticed that Coggins' sources stated that I-19 torpedoed Wasp while I-15 tried for Hornet and hit North Carolina/O'Brien instead, when in reality it was the same salvo that traveled (I still go at that) all the miles in between the task forces to hit the BB and DD. But hey, we might not have known that in 1972...
Thanks for the heads up!! Pulled the trigger yesterday......
ORIGINAL: mikkey
Can you recommend some good books about the Battle of the Coral Sea and Marianas? Thanks.
I understand Hoyt doesn't go into great depth but I enjoy his books. I'd recommend Blue Skies and Blood
I'd also recommend To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific 1944 by Hoyt which is also light reading.
"There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.” ~ Erwin Lutzer
RE: the Book Thread - Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War
thanks for suggestion SuluSea, Blue Skies and Blood is on my wish list.
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
Someone asked for general strategy. You could try:
Modern Strategy by Colin S. Gray (1999)
Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian S. Corbett (Dover Ed. 2004)
Modern Strategy by Colin S. Gray (1999)
Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian S. Corbett (Dover Ed. 2004)
Desert War 1940-1942 Beta Tester
Agressors: Ancient Rome Beta Tester
Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm Beta Tester
Agressors: Ancient Rome Beta Tester
Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm Beta Tester
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
I hope folks are still reading this thread, it is very informative! I just picked up a book and don't see it mentioned, so I thought I would get your collective view. It is Alan Zimm's Attack on Pearl Harbor, Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deception. Anyone read it, it looks very much like a very detailed review of the attack. Thanks in advance. Hal
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
I actually just picked up "Pacific Crucible" today. Looking forward to reading it, and will post about it if it's good.
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
"The Burma Campaign by Frank McLynn"
Lowcommand is spot on about this. I wanted something about the Burma Campaign, not a general history of the various leaders. One of the few history books I actually regret buying.
Lowcommand is spot on about this. I wanted something about the Burma Campaign, not a general history of the various leaders. One of the few history books I actually regret buying.
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
I have an older book, 1979, "Behind Japanese Lines" by Richard Dunlop. I centers on the OSS in Burma, but it is very interesting. HalORIGINAL: Encircled
"The Burma Campaign by Frank McLynn"
Lowcommand is spot on about this. I wanted something about the Burma Campaign, not a general history of the various leaders. One of the few history books I actually regret buying.
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
ORIGINAL: Encircled
"The Burma Campaign by Frank McLynn"
Lowcommand is spot on about this. I wanted something about the Burma Campaign, not a general history of the various leaders. One of the few history books I actually regret buying.
Try Burma: The Longest War 1941-45 by Louis Allen. Allen was an intelligence officer in the British army in Southeast Asia during World War II, spoke Japanese, and accessed both British and Japanese sources and personal correspondence.
-- Mark Sieving
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
Read it just last year. Thank god for all the maps to help guide me along the operations. I may have to reread 'Sittang: the Last Battle'. Been over 30 years since I read that one.ORIGINAL: msieving1
ORIGINAL: Encircled
"The Burma Campaign by Frank McLynn"
Lowcommand is spot on about this. I wanted something about the Burma Campaign, not a general history of the various leaders. One of the few history books I actually regret buying.
Try Burma: The Longest War 1941-45 by Louis Allen. Allen was an intelligence officer in the British army in Southeast Asia during World War II, spoke Japanese, and accessed both British and Japanese sources and personal correspondence.
This is one Czech that doesn't bounce.
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
I read Operation KE by Roger Letourneau and thought it to be a nice 'niche' book covering the Japanese withdrawal from Guadalcanal.
Member: Treaty, Reluctant Admiral and Between the Storms Mod Team.
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
Oh no! Damn you guys. 'Operation KE'. Off to the on-line store...again.ORIGINAL: John 3rd
I read Operation KE by Roger Letourneau and thought it to be a nice 'niche' book covering the Japanese withdrawal from Guadalcanal.
This is one Czech that doesn't bounce.
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
You are WELCOME! 
Member: Treaty, Reluctant Admiral and Between the Storms Mod Team.
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
IDEA
Instead of reinventing the wheel every time we want to post a book on the forum, perhaps we could simply add to this thread. Maybe each person could copy and add a note to the top for that post, indicating what they've added to the lists and identifying whether it was here already, but copy the format exactly and keep it uniform as a common resource. (Copied by using 'quote' and adding the note and book but removing the framing quote html tags).
I've gone through and tried to better organize this visually so each title stands out, and I've added titles from the first page of the thread down to SuluSea's post. Now I have to do some work! I'll finish adding the rest later today. I'll fix all links and titles to be uniform as well.
Suggestions? Thoughts?
Pre-War Books or How we set the Stage:
Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy by Captain J.T. Kuhen USN(Ret)
Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China by RADM Kemp Tolley
War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 by Edward S. Miller
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period by Williamson Murray
Two-Block Fox: The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier, 1911-1929 by Charles Melhorn [Note out of Print since the mid 1980's very hard to find]
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 by David C. Evans
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Micheal Barnhart
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret McMillian
The Treaty Navy: The Story of the US Naval Service Between the World Wars by James Hammond
Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor by Edward S. Miller
Sunburst by Mark Peattie from Pascal
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945By John Toland from Apollo11
At Dawn We Slept / Dec. 7th / Pearl Harbor - The Verdict of History from LargeSlowTarget
Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific by Akira Iriye
Cry Havoc: The Arms Race and the Second World War, 1931-41 by Joe Maiolo
Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941-42
General Refernce Books or some information on the platforms:
U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History, Revised Edition by Norman Friedman
U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Submarines Through 1945 : An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War by Norman Friedman
British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After by Norman Friedman
U.S. Small Combatants, Including Pt-Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
British Naval Aircraft Since 1912 (Putnam Aviation Series) by Owen Thetford
United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911 (Putnam's US aircraft) by Gordon Swanbourough
Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War by Rene Francillion
Dive Bomber! by Peter C. Smith
The B-24 in China: General Chennault's Secret Weapon in WWII by A. Feuer
The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Vol. 1 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII series) by William McGee
Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II, Vol. III (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII series) by William McGee
The INVENTION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: HOW A SMALL GROUP OF RADAR PIONEERS WON THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND LAUNCHED A TECH by Robert Burdei
SETTING OF THE RISING SUN, THE: Japanese Military Aviation 1877-1945 by Terry Treadwell
The M1 Garand, 1936-1957 by Joe Poyer
Report of Joint Fighter Conference: : NAS Patuxent River, MD - 16-23 October 1944 (Schiffer Military History)
The Army Air Forces in World War II from oldman45
The Deadly Fuze by R B Baldwin: development of the anti-aircraft artillery proximity fuze
A Radar History of World War II by Louis Brown from Pascal
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by Eric Lacroix and Linton Wells II
General Overview of the War or The Big Picture:
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan by Ronald Spector
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II 15 Volume Set by RADM S. E. Morison
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan by Robert Leckie
Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War by RADM S. E. Morison
Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 by H.P. Willmott
Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942 by H.P. Willmott
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 by Mark Peattie
December 1941 by Evan Mawdsley
Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II by David Downing
Reporting World War II, Part 1: American Journalism, 1938-1944 by Library of America
Reporting World War II Part Two: American Journalism 1944-46 by Samuel Hynes
The Chancy War: Winning China, Burma, and India in World War II by Edward Fischer
A World at Arms by Gerhard Weinberg from Pascal
Touched With Fire by Eric Bergerud
Fire in the Sky by Eric Bergerud from wpurdom
H.P. Wilmott: Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (World War II) from Sardaukar
H.P. Wilmott: Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942 from Sardaukar
Oil On The Water: The Naval War In The South Pacific from SuluSea
Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald H. Spector
Battles Histories or the inside view of a battle:
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by J. Parshall
Clash of The Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by Barrett Tillman
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornsfischer
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornsfischer
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Vintage) by Max Hastings
Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island by Denis Warner
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor by W. B. Breuer
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
The Times When Men Must Die: The Story of the Destruction of the Philippine Army During the Early Months of World War II in the Pacific, December 1941-may 1942 by Marconi M. Dosoi
Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II by Eric Morris
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barabra Tuchman
Corregidor: The Rock Force Assault by E. Flanagan
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa by John Wukovits
MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines by Richard Connaughton
Bataan: Our Last Ditch : The Bataan Campaign, 1942 by John Whitman
Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa by John H. Alexander
Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island by Bill Sloan
Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island by John Wukovits
JAPAN'S LAST BID FOR VICTORY: The Invasion of India, 1944 by Robert Lyman
"Execute against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) By Joel Holwitt
Forgotten Armies by Christopher Bayly
JAPAN'S LAST BID FOR VICTORY: The Invasion of India, 1944 by Robert Lyman
Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the Battle of Kohima by Lesile Edwards
Born in the Jungles of Burma: Behind Enemy Lines in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations by Andrew Wax
The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II by Gerald Astor
The Allied Resupply Effort in the China-Burma-India Theater During World War II by L. Daughtery
Thousand-Mile War - WWII in Alaska
Burma: The Longest War, 1941-19451 Sep 1985 by Louis Allen
Guadalcanal: The Definative Account of the Landmark Battle; Richard B Frank
The campaign for Guadalcanal;: A battle that made history by Jack Coggins
To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific 1944 by Edwin Palmer Hoyt
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions by Alan Zimm
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll
Unit Histories or a close up view of the units involved:
First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway by John Lundstrom
Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 by William H. Bartsch
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight by Robert J. Marzek
First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by John B. Lundstrom
The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf by Edwin P. Hoyt
Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin in World War II by Joseph A. Springer
Coast Watching in World War II: Operations against the Japanese on the Solomon Islands, 1941-43 by A. Feuer
Hunting of Force Z by Richard Hough
Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II by Bruce Gamble
Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45 by Peter C. Smith
Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II by Gene Salecker
Australian Commandos: Their Secret War against the Japanese in WWII by A.B. Feuer
The Twilight Riders: The Last Charge of the 26th Cavalry by Peter F. Stevens
Iron Men and Tin Fish: The Race to Build a Better Torpedo During World War II by Anthony Newpower
American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission by John Wukovits
Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines by John Gordon
Concrete Battleship: Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila Bay by Francis J. Allen
Guests of the Emperor: The Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp by L. G. Holmes
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet by Douglas Ford
Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor by Daniel Madsen
Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal by Homer Wallin
Battalion of the Damned: The 1st Marine Paratroopers at Gavutu and Bloody Ridge, 1942 by James F. Christ
Building for Victory: World War II in China, Burma, and India and the 1875th Engineer Aviation Battalion by William King
An Airline at War: The Story of China National Aviation Corporation and its Men by Robert Willet
Eagles, Bulldogs & Tigers: History of the 22nd Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India by David Hayward
US Subs Down Under. Brisbane, 1942 -1945 David Jones and Peter Nunan
The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Vol. 1 by William L. McGee
McGee, William L., The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville, Pacific War Turning Point, Vol. II by William L. McGee
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet by Douglas Ford
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn
Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal by Michael T. Smith
The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by John B. Lundstrom
Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific
Some Personal Histories or "There I was..."
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
Queen of the Flat-Tops by Stanley Johnson
I Saw Tokyo Burning: An Eyewitness Narrative from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima by Robert Guillian
Baa Baa Black Sheep by LtCol. Gregory Boyington USMC (Ret.)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson
God Is My Co-Pilot by R. L. Scott
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway-The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes by Captain Tamiachi Hara JMSDF (Ret.)
Take Her Deep!: A Submarine Against Japan in World War II by Adm. I. J. Galantin
Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II by Ann Layson
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 by John Glusman
All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese by Evelyn Monahan
Descent into Darkness Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Edward Raymer
You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War by Dr. Sid Phillips
Bluejacket Odyssey, 1942-1946: Guadalcanal to Bikini, Naval Armed Guard in the Pacific by William McGee
Paddles!: The Foibles and Finesse of One World War II Landing Signal Officer by Captain John Harper USNR
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific by Allistar Urqhart
Dragon of the Mangroves by Yasuyuki Kasai
Quartered Safe Out Here
The Brave Japanese
from Dixie
Ship of Ghosts - James D Hornfischer
Fleet the Gods Forgot: U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II - by W.G. Winslow
D-Days in the Pacific by Ken Wiley
Clear the Bridge! The War Patrols of the USS Tang by Richard H. O'Kane
Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II by Richard H. O'Kane
Pigboat 39: An American Submarine Goes to War. by Bobette Gugliola
Descent into Darkness Pearl Harbor 1941 - A Navy Diver's Memoir by Edward C. Raymer
James Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary
Biographies or A snapshot of people's lives:
Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller by Burke Davis
The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance by Captain Thomans Buell USNR
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway & Guadalcanal by John B. Lundstrom
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964 by William Manchester
MacArthur: America's General (The Generals) by Mitchell Yockleson
Reaper Leader: The Life of Jimmy Flatley by Steve Ewing
The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy by H. Agawa
Bull Halsey by E. B. Potter
Nimitz E.B. Potter
The Magnificent Mitscher by T. Taylor
Fateful Rendezvous: The Life of Butch O'Hare by Steve Ewing
Fist From the Sky: Japan's Dive-Bomber Ace of World War II by Peter C. Smith
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann-The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army Against the Japanese, and ... True "Father" of Army Special Forces by Mark Guardia
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson
Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943 by David J. Ulbrich
Fighting Spirit: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima by Robert Eldridge
General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman by Ed Cray
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor
The Stilwell Papers by General J. Stilwell
General Wainwright's Story: The Account of Four Years of Humiliating Defeat, Surrender, and Captivity by General Wainwright
Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West (American Studies Series) by Mark S. Foster
Henry J. Kaiser: Western Colossus by Albert Heiner
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Bill Slim: The background, strategies, tactics and battlefield experiences of the greatest commanders of history by Robert Lyman
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller
The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China by Jack Sampson
Logistics and Behind the Front Lines
Beans, Bullets and Black Oil[ Rear Adm. Worrall Reed Carter, USN (Retired)/link]
[link=http://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Express-Logistics-Amphibious-Operations/dp/0970167881/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432462257&sr=1-3&keywords=by+William+L.+McGee]Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II, Vol. III by William L. McGee
Home Front
Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman from Pascal and obvert
Double Victory: A Multi-Cultural History of World War II by Ronald Takaki from obvert
The Game Must Go On by John Klima from obvert
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II from obvert
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II by Emily Yellin from obvert
A few Post-War books
The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal: Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific by Robert Ballard
Return to Midway by Robert Ballard
Collision With History: The Search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109 by Robert Ballard
Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific by Gerald Meehl
25 Best World War II Sites Pacific Theater by Chuck Thompson
Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II: Then and Now by Earl Hinz
War of Our Fathers: Relics of the Pacific Battlefields by Richard Marin
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II by E. B. Sledge
Major Problems in the History of World War II: Documents and Essays by Mark Stoler - this is a text book as part of a series that presents pro/cons about various subjects. I have had to use some of the same series in college classes and some essays are interesting to read. This is presented as a way to generate some deep thoughts or even see the opposing side of a few topics.
Refighting the Pacific War: An Alternate History edited by Jim Bresnahan
Fiction Set in the Pacific in WWII
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
In the Era but just for fun
Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific (Vol. 1) (Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer) by Roy Crane
Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin
Websites with Books
from pascal:
A link to the HyperWar website where many books and documents are available in HTML format. Many of the US official histories are already there, some of the UK. Check the listings there.
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar
Also, the Australian and New Zealand official histories are available online.
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-WH2.html
(working my way through this to provide links; it'll be a while)
from JeffK
In no order, add if you wish.
Couple of boxes in the Garage I havent seen for years as well.
Fire in the night by John Bierman and Colin Smith A biography of Orde Wingate
The Desert and The Jungle by Lt Gen Sir Geoffrey Evans British Commander
The Green Beret by Hilary St George Saunders British Commandos including landings at Arakan/Ramree Is
Behinfd Bamboo by Rohan Rivett POW
The Ridge and the River by T A G Hungerford Novel based in Bouganville by an Australian Commando
Australian Commanders in WW2 by Garth Pratten What made an Australian Bn commander, wins and losses.
The Only Enemy by Bri Sir John Smyth VC Sittang Bridge
Silent Victory by Clay Blair
1931 The Great Pacigfic War by Hector Bywater
Wedemeyer Repoerts by A C Wedemeyer Replaced Stillwell in CBI
Nothing over us by David Hay Unit history of 2/6 Aust Inf Bn
Second Eighth by ? U nit History of 2/8 Aust Inf Bn
Macarthur - Victory in th Pacific by C A Willoughby History rewritten/glossed over and prettied up
Why Singapore Fell by H G Bennet See above
Battle of Kohima by Arthur Swinson The end of the March on Delhi
Nemisis by Max Hastings
Dust, Sand and Jungle by Paul Handel Story of Australian armour
Codename Downfall by Allen and Polmer
The Jungle is Neutral by F Spencer Chapman Guerillas in Malaya
Tank Tracks to Rangoon by Bryan Perret British/Indian armour in Burma
Australian Army Xmas Books Stories from the troops, includes a good commentary of the battles
Shattered Storm by Parshall & Tully
The Heroes by Ronald McKie The Krait story
Defeat into Victory by Fd Marshal W Slim
Spearhead General by Henry Maule The story of Frank Messervy
from bushpu
A few to add:
Biographies
Admiral Arleigh Burke by E.B. Potter
All the Factors of Victory by Widenberg ( a bio on Adm. Mason Reeves and the beginnings of US CV power)
References
Americas 100,000 by Francis Dean (a tech breakdown of US fighter aircraft)
General Histories
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy
Victory at Sea by Dunnigan and Nofi
Hell to Pay by Giangreco (the planning for the invasion of Japan proper)
Whirlwind by Barrett Tillman (air war against Japan)
Winged Victory by Geoffrey Perret (total US air war story)
General Strategy
Moltke: The Art of War by Daniel Hughes
Strategy by BH Liddell Hart (covers everything up to WWII)
Warfighting by Lt. Col Hayden ( a modern primer on Marine tactics)
Instead of reinventing the wheel every time we want to post a book on the forum, perhaps we could simply add to this thread. Maybe each person could copy and add a note to the top for that post, indicating what they've added to the lists and identifying whether it was here already, but copy the format exactly and keep it uniform as a common resource. (Copied by using 'quote' and adding the note and book but removing the framing quote html tags).
I've gone through and tried to better organize this visually so each title stands out, and I've added titles from the first page of the thread down to SuluSea's post. Now I have to do some work! I'll finish adding the rest later today. I'll fix all links and titles to be uniform as well.
Suggestions? Thoughts?
Pre-War Books or How we set the Stage:
Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy by Captain J.T. Kuhen USN(Ret)
Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China by RADM Kemp Tolley
War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 by Edward S. Miller
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period by Williamson Murray
Two-Block Fox: The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier, 1911-1929 by Charles Melhorn [Note out of Print since the mid 1980's very hard to find]
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 by David C. Evans
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Micheal Barnhart
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret McMillian
The Treaty Navy: The Story of the US Naval Service Between the World Wars by James Hammond
Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor by Edward S. Miller
Sunburst by Mark Peattie from Pascal
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945By John Toland from Apollo11
At Dawn We Slept / Dec. 7th / Pearl Harbor - The Verdict of History from LargeSlowTarget
Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific by Akira Iriye
Cry Havoc: The Arms Race and the Second World War, 1931-41 by Joe Maiolo
Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941-42
General Refernce Books or some information on the platforms:
U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History, Revised Edition by Norman Friedman
U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Submarines Through 1945 : An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War by Norman Friedman
British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After by Norman Friedman
U.S. Small Combatants, Including Pt-Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
British Naval Aircraft Since 1912 (Putnam Aviation Series) by Owen Thetford
United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911 (Putnam's US aircraft) by Gordon Swanbourough
Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War by Rene Francillion
Dive Bomber! by Peter C. Smith
The B-24 in China: General Chennault's Secret Weapon in WWII by A. Feuer
The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Vol. 1 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII series) by William McGee
Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II, Vol. III (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII series) by William McGee
The INVENTION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: HOW A SMALL GROUP OF RADAR PIONEERS WON THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND LAUNCHED A TECH by Robert Burdei
SETTING OF THE RISING SUN, THE: Japanese Military Aviation 1877-1945 by Terry Treadwell
The M1 Garand, 1936-1957 by Joe Poyer
Report of Joint Fighter Conference: : NAS Patuxent River, MD - 16-23 October 1944 (Schiffer Military History)
The Army Air Forces in World War II from oldman45
The Deadly Fuze by R B Baldwin: development of the anti-aircraft artillery proximity fuze
A Radar History of World War II by Louis Brown from Pascal
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by Eric Lacroix and Linton Wells II
General Overview of the War or The Big Picture:
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan by Ronald Spector
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II 15 Volume Set by RADM S. E. Morison
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan by Robert Leckie
Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War by RADM S. E. Morison
Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 by H.P. Willmott
Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942 by H.P. Willmott
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 by Mark Peattie
December 1941 by Evan Mawdsley
Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II by David Downing
Reporting World War II, Part 1: American Journalism, 1938-1944 by Library of America
Reporting World War II Part Two: American Journalism 1944-46 by Samuel Hynes
The Chancy War: Winning China, Burma, and India in World War II by Edward Fischer
A World at Arms by Gerhard Weinberg from Pascal
Touched With Fire by Eric Bergerud
Fire in the Sky by Eric Bergerud from wpurdom
H.P. Wilmott: Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (World War II) from Sardaukar
H.P. Wilmott: Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942 from Sardaukar
Oil On The Water: The Naval War In The South Pacific from SuluSea
Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald H. Spector
Battles Histories or the inside view of a battle:
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by J. Parshall
Clash of The Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by Barrett Tillman
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornsfischer
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornsfischer
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Vintage) by Max Hastings
Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island by Denis Warner
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor by W. B. Breuer
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
The Times When Men Must Die: The Story of the Destruction of the Philippine Army During the Early Months of World War II in the Pacific, December 1941-may 1942 by Marconi M. Dosoi
Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II by Eric Morris
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barabra Tuchman
Corregidor: The Rock Force Assault by E. Flanagan
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa by John Wukovits
MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines by Richard Connaughton
Bataan: Our Last Ditch : The Bataan Campaign, 1942 by John Whitman
Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa by John H. Alexander
Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island by Bill Sloan
Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island by John Wukovits
JAPAN'S LAST BID FOR VICTORY: The Invasion of India, 1944 by Robert Lyman
"Execute against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) By Joel Holwitt
Forgotten Armies by Christopher Bayly
JAPAN'S LAST BID FOR VICTORY: The Invasion of India, 1944 by Robert Lyman
Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the Battle of Kohima by Lesile Edwards
Born in the Jungles of Burma: Behind Enemy Lines in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations by Andrew Wax
The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II by Gerald Astor
The Allied Resupply Effort in the China-Burma-India Theater During World War II by L. Daughtery
Thousand-Mile War - WWII in Alaska
Burma: The Longest War, 1941-19451 Sep 1985 by Louis Allen
Guadalcanal: The Definative Account of the Landmark Battle; Richard B Frank
The campaign for Guadalcanal;: A battle that made history by Jack Coggins
To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific 1944 by Edwin Palmer Hoyt
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions by Alan Zimm
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll
Unit Histories or a close up view of the units involved:
First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway by John Lundstrom
Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 by William H. Bartsch
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight by Robert J. Marzek
First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by John B. Lundstrom
The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf by Edwin P. Hoyt
Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin in World War II by Joseph A. Springer
Coast Watching in World War II: Operations against the Japanese on the Solomon Islands, 1941-43 by A. Feuer
Hunting of Force Z by Richard Hough
Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II by Bruce Gamble
Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45 by Peter C. Smith
Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II by Gene Salecker
Australian Commandos: Their Secret War against the Japanese in WWII by A.B. Feuer
The Twilight Riders: The Last Charge of the 26th Cavalry by Peter F. Stevens
Iron Men and Tin Fish: The Race to Build a Better Torpedo During World War II by Anthony Newpower
American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission by John Wukovits
Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines by John Gordon
Concrete Battleship: Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila Bay by Francis J. Allen
Guests of the Emperor: The Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp by L. G. Holmes
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet by Douglas Ford
Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor by Daniel Madsen
Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal by Homer Wallin
Battalion of the Damned: The 1st Marine Paratroopers at Gavutu and Bloody Ridge, 1942 by James F. Christ
Building for Victory: World War II in China, Burma, and India and the 1875th Engineer Aviation Battalion by William King
An Airline at War: The Story of China National Aviation Corporation and its Men by Robert Willet
Eagles, Bulldogs & Tigers: History of the 22nd Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India by David Hayward
US Subs Down Under. Brisbane, 1942 -1945 David Jones and Peter Nunan
The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Vol. 1 by William L. McGee
McGee, William L., The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville, Pacific War Turning Point, Vol. II by William L. McGee
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet by Douglas Ford
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn
Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal by Michael T. Smith
The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by John B. Lundstrom
Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific
Some Personal Histories or "There I was..."
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
Queen of the Flat-Tops by Stanley Johnson
I Saw Tokyo Burning: An Eyewitness Narrative from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima by Robert Guillian
Baa Baa Black Sheep by LtCol. Gregory Boyington USMC (Ret.)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson
God Is My Co-Pilot by R. L. Scott
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway-The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes by Captain Tamiachi Hara JMSDF (Ret.)
Take Her Deep!: A Submarine Against Japan in World War II by Adm. I. J. Galantin
Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II by Ann Layson
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 by John Glusman
All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese by Evelyn Monahan
Descent into Darkness Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Edward Raymer
You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War by Dr. Sid Phillips
Bluejacket Odyssey, 1942-1946: Guadalcanal to Bikini, Naval Armed Guard in the Pacific by William McGee
Paddles!: The Foibles and Finesse of One World War II Landing Signal Officer by Captain John Harper USNR
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific by Allistar Urqhart
Dragon of the Mangroves by Yasuyuki Kasai
Quartered Safe Out Here
The Brave Japanese
from Dixie
Ship of Ghosts - James D Hornfischer
Fleet the Gods Forgot: U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II - by W.G. Winslow
D-Days in the Pacific by Ken Wiley
Clear the Bridge! The War Patrols of the USS Tang by Richard H. O'Kane
Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II by Richard H. O'Kane
Pigboat 39: An American Submarine Goes to War. by Bobette Gugliola
Descent into Darkness Pearl Harbor 1941 - A Navy Diver's Memoir by Edward C. Raymer
James Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary
Biographies or A snapshot of people's lives:
Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller by Burke Davis
The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance by Captain Thomans Buell USNR
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway & Guadalcanal by John B. Lundstrom
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964 by William Manchester
MacArthur: America's General (The Generals) by Mitchell Yockleson
Reaper Leader: The Life of Jimmy Flatley by Steve Ewing
The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy by H. Agawa
Bull Halsey by E. B. Potter
Nimitz E.B. Potter
The Magnificent Mitscher by T. Taylor
Fateful Rendezvous: The Life of Butch O'Hare by Steve Ewing
Fist From the Sky: Japan's Dive-Bomber Ace of World War II by Peter C. Smith
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann-The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army Against the Japanese, and ... True "Father" of Army Special Forces by Mark Guardia
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson
Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943 by David J. Ulbrich
Fighting Spirit: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima by Robert Eldridge
General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman by Ed Cray
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor
The Stilwell Papers by General J. Stilwell
General Wainwright's Story: The Account of Four Years of Humiliating Defeat, Surrender, and Captivity by General Wainwright
Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West (American Studies Series) by Mark S. Foster
Henry J. Kaiser: Western Colossus by Albert Heiner
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Bill Slim: The background, strategies, tactics and battlefield experiences of the greatest commanders of history by Robert Lyman
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller
The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China by Jack Sampson
Logistics and Behind the Front Lines
Beans, Bullets and Black Oil[ Rear Adm. Worrall Reed Carter, USN (Retired)/link]
[link=http://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Express-Logistics-Amphibious-Operations/dp/0970167881/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432462257&sr=1-3&keywords=by+William+L.+McGee]Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II, Vol. III by William L. McGee
Home Front
Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman from Pascal and obvert
Double Victory: A Multi-Cultural History of World War II by Ronald Takaki from obvert
The Game Must Go On by John Klima from obvert
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II from obvert
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II by Emily Yellin from obvert
A few Post-War books
The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal: Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific by Robert Ballard
Return to Midway by Robert Ballard
Collision With History: The Search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109 by Robert Ballard
Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific by Gerald Meehl
25 Best World War II Sites Pacific Theater by Chuck Thompson
Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II: Then and Now by Earl Hinz
War of Our Fathers: Relics of the Pacific Battlefields by Richard Marin
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II by E. B. Sledge
Major Problems in the History of World War II: Documents and Essays by Mark Stoler - this is a text book as part of a series that presents pro/cons about various subjects. I have had to use some of the same series in college classes and some essays are interesting to read. This is presented as a way to generate some deep thoughts or even see the opposing side of a few topics.
Refighting the Pacific War: An Alternate History edited by Jim Bresnahan
Fiction Set in the Pacific in WWII
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
In the Era but just for fun
Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific (Vol. 1) (Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer) by Roy Crane
Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin
Websites with Books
from pascal:
A link to the HyperWar website where many books and documents are available in HTML format. Many of the US official histories are already there, some of the UK. Check the listings there.
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar
Also, the Australian and New Zealand official histories are available online.
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-WH2.html
(working my way through this to provide links; it'll be a while)
from JeffK
In no order, add if you wish.
Couple of boxes in the Garage I havent seen for years as well.
Fire in the night by John Bierman and Colin Smith A biography of Orde Wingate
The Desert and The Jungle by Lt Gen Sir Geoffrey Evans British Commander
The Green Beret by Hilary St George Saunders British Commandos including landings at Arakan/Ramree Is
Behinfd Bamboo by Rohan Rivett POW
The Ridge and the River by T A G Hungerford Novel based in Bouganville by an Australian Commando
Australian Commanders in WW2 by Garth Pratten What made an Australian Bn commander, wins and losses.
The Only Enemy by Bri Sir John Smyth VC Sittang Bridge
Silent Victory by Clay Blair
1931 The Great Pacigfic War by Hector Bywater
Wedemeyer Repoerts by A C Wedemeyer Replaced Stillwell in CBI
Nothing over us by David Hay Unit history of 2/6 Aust Inf Bn
Second Eighth by ? U nit History of 2/8 Aust Inf Bn
Macarthur - Victory in th Pacific by C A Willoughby History rewritten/glossed over and prettied up
Why Singapore Fell by H G Bennet See above
Battle of Kohima by Arthur Swinson The end of the March on Delhi
Nemisis by Max Hastings
Dust, Sand and Jungle by Paul Handel Story of Australian armour
Codename Downfall by Allen and Polmer
The Jungle is Neutral by F Spencer Chapman Guerillas in Malaya
Tank Tracks to Rangoon by Bryan Perret British/Indian armour in Burma
Australian Army Xmas Books Stories from the troops, includes a good commentary of the battles
Shattered Storm by Parshall & Tully
The Heroes by Ronald McKie The Krait story
Defeat into Victory by Fd Marshal W Slim
Spearhead General by Henry Maule The story of Frank Messervy
from bushpu
A few to add:
Biographies
Admiral Arleigh Burke by E.B. Potter
All the Factors of Victory by Widenberg ( a bio on Adm. Mason Reeves and the beginnings of US CV power)
References
Americas 100,000 by Francis Dean (a tech breakdown of US fighter aircraft)
General Histories
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy
Victory at Sea by Dunnigan and Nofi
Hell to Pay by Giangreco (the planning for the invasion of Japan proper)
Whirlwind by Barrett Tillman (air war against Japan)
Winged Victory by Geoffrey Perret (total US air war story)
General Strategy
Moltke: The Art of War by Daniel Hughes
Strategy by BH Liddell Hart (covers everything up to WWII)
Warfighting by Lt. Col Hayden ( a modern primer on Marine tactics)
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
obvert good work. Here are the titles I have plugged over the years. I could not see these in your list (did a word search) but note you still had more to add.
Anyway I hope this helps:
British Destroyers and Frigates – The Second World War and after by Norman Friedman
Guadalcanal by Richard R Frank
The British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs
The Forgotten Fleet by John Winton
British Battleships 1919-1945 by R A Burt
The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse by Middlebrook and Mahoney
Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart D Goldman
Rising Sun, Falling Skies by Jeffery R Cox
The Imperial Japanese Navy In The Pacific War by Mark E Stille
Singapore The Pregnable Fortress by Peter Elphick
Odd Man Out The Story of the Singapore Traitor by Peter Elphick and Michael Smith
Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869-1945 by Jentshura Jung and Mickel
The Shame of Savo by Bruce Loxton
The Battle of Leyte Gulf by Thomas Cutler
Various “Campaign” titles by Osprey Publishing includes:
- Hong Kong 1941-45
- The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942
- Santa Cruz 1942
- The Fall of The Philippines 1941-42
- Wake Island 1941
- Kohima 1944
- Midway 1942
- The Coral Sea 1942
- Japan 1945
- Leyte Gulf 944
- The Doolittle Raid 1942
- Saipan & Tinian 1944
- Peleliu 1944
- Iwo Jima 1945
- Tarawa 1943
- Guadalcanal 1942
- Guam 1941-44
- The Marshall Islands 1944
- Okinawa 1945
- Pearl Harbor 1941
Anyway I hope this helps:
British Destroyers and Frigates – The Second World War and after by Norman Friedman
Guadalcanal by Richard R Frank
The British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs
The Forgotten Fleet by John Winton
British Battleships 1919-1945 by R A Burt
The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse by Middlebrook and Mahoney
Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart D Goldman
Rising Sun, Falling Skies by Jeffery R Cox
The Imperial Japanese Navy In The Pacific War by Mark E Stille
Singapore The Pregnable Fortress by Peter Elphick
Odd Man Out The Story of the Singapore Traitor by Peter Elphick and Michael Smith
Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869-1945 by Jentshura Jung and Mickel
The Shame of Savo by Bruce Loxton
The Battle of Leyte Gulf by Thomas Cutler
Various “Campaign” titles by Osprey Publishing includes:
- Hong Kong 1941-45
- The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942
- Santa Cruz 1942
- The Fall of The Philippines 1941-42
- Wake Island 1941
- Kohima 1944
- Midway 1942
- The Coral Sea 1942
- Japan 1945
- Leyte Gulf 944
- The Doolittle Raid 1942
- Saipan & Tinian 1944
- Peleliu 1944
- Iwo Jima 1945
- Tarawa 1943
- Guadalcanal 1942
- Guam 1941-44
- The Marshall Islands 1944
- Okinawa 1945
- Pearl Harbor 1941
Now Maitland, now's your time!
Duke of Wellington to 1st Guards Brigade - Waterloo 18 June 1815
Duke of Wellington to 1st Guards Brigade - Waterloo 18 June 1815
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
ORIGINAL: warspite1
obvert good work. Here are the titles I have plugged over the years. I could not see these in your list (did a word search) but note you still had more to add.
Anyway I hope this helps:
British Destroyers and Frigates – The Second World War and after by Norman Friedman
Guadalcanal by Richard R Frank
The British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs
The Forgotten Fleet by John Winton
British Battleships 1919-1945 by R A Burt
The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse by Middlebrook and Mahoney
Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart D Goldman
Rising Sun, Falling Skies by Jeffery R Cox
The Imperial Japanese Navy In The Pacific War by Mark E Stille
Singapore The Pregnable Fortress by Peter Elphick
Odd Man Out The Story of the Singapore Traitor by Peter Elphick and Michael Smith
Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869-1945 by Jentshura Jung and Mickel
The Shame of Savo by Bruce Loxton
The Battle of Leyte Gulf by Thomas Cutler
Various “Campaign” titles by Osprey Publishing includes:
- Hong Kong 1941-45
- The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942
- Santa Cruz 1942
- The Fall of The Philippines 1941-42
- Wake Island 1941
- Kohima 1944
- Midway 1942
- The Coral Sea 1942
- Japan 1945
- Leyte Gulf 944
- The Doolittle Raid 1942
- Saipan & Tinian 1944
- Peleliu 1944
- Iwo Jima 1945
- Tarawa 1943
- Guadalcanal 1942
- Guam 1941-44
- The Marshall Islands 1944
- Okinawa 1945
- Pearl Harbor 1941
Ha!! This is another great list! I'll need a bit of time but I'd like to get these all into the main post list (which I'll repost) with links. I'll try to remember then to just give this a bump a week.
I like archives and information collected in one place. I have a film list about 300 long I give to people who ask for my top list! Can't quite get it shorter than that. [;)]
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
RE: Potentially the Book Thread.
UPDATE
Added a bunch of stuff from the suggestions. I still have some to go from this thread, listed at the bottom, and then some from the other current book thread. Then I might do some reading. [:)]
Pre-War Books or How we set the Stage:
Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy by Captain J.T. Kuhen USN(Ret)
Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China by RADM Kemp Tolley
War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 by Edward S. Miller
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period by Williamson Murray
Two-Block Fox: The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier, 1911-1929 by Charles Melhorn [Note out of Print since the mid 1980's very hard to find]
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 by David C. Evans
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Micheal Barnhart
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret McMillian
The Treaty Navy: The Story of the US Naval Service Between the World Wars by James Hammond
Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor by Edward S. Miller
Sunburst by Mark Peattie from Pascal
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945By John Toland from Apollo11
At Dawn We Slept / Dec. 7th / Pearl Harbor - The Verdict of History from LargeSlowTarget
Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific by Akira Iriye
Cry Havoc: The Arms Race and the Second World War, 1931-41 by Joe Maiolo
Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941-42
General Refernce Books or some information on the platforms:
U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History, Revised Edition by Norman Friedman
U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Submarines Through 1945 : An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War by Norman Friedman
British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After by Norman Friedman
U.S. Small Combatants, Including Pt-Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
British Naval Aircraft Since 1912 (Putnam Aviation Series) by Owen Thetford
United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911 (Putnam's US aircraft) by Gordon Swanbourough
Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War by Rene Francillion
Dive Bomber! by Peter C. Smith
The B-24 in China: General Chennault's Secret Weapon in WWII by A. Feuer
The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Vol. 1 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII series) by William McGee
Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II, Vol. III (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII series) by William McGee
The INVENTION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: HOW A SMALL GROUP OF RADAR PIONEERS WON THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND LAUNCHED A TECH by Robert Burdei
SETTING OF THE RISING SUN, THE: Japanese Military Aviation 1877-1945 by Terry Treadwell
The M1 Garand, 1936-1957 by Joe Poyer
Report of Joint Fighter Conference: : NAS Patuxent River, MD - 16-23 October 1944 (Schiffer Military History)
The Army Air Forces in World War II from oldman45
The Deadly Fuze by R B Baldwin: development of the anti-aircraft artillery proximity fuze
A Radar History of World War II by Louis Brown from Pascal
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by Eric Lacroix and Linton Wells II
General Overview of the War or The Big Picture:
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan by Ronald Spector
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II 15 Volume Set by RADM S. E. Morison
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan by Robert Leckie
Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War by RADM S. E. Morison
Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 by H.P. Willmott
Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942 by H.P. Willmott
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 by Mark Peattie
December 1941 by Evan Mawdsley
Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II by David Downing
Reporting World War II, Part 1: American Journalism, 1938-1944 by Library of America
Reporting World War II Part Two: American Journalism 1944-46 by Samuel Hynes
The Chancy War: Winning China, Burma, and India in World War II by Edward Fischer
A World at Arms by Gerhard Weinberg from Pascal
Touched With Fire by Eric Bergerud
Fire in the Sky by Eric Bergerud from wpurdom
H.P. Wilmott: Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (World War II) from Sardaukar
H.P. Wilmott: Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942 from Sardaukar
Oil On The Water: The Naval War In The South Pacific from SuluSea
Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald H. Spector
Battles Histories or the inside view of a battle:
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by J. Parshall
Clash of The Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by Barrett Tillman
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornsfischer
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornsfischer
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Vintage) by Max Hastings
Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island by Denis Warner
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor by W. B. Breuer
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
The Times When Men Must Die: The Story of the Destruction of the Philippine Army During the Early Months of World War II in the Pacific, December 1941-may 1942 by Marconi M. Dosoi
Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II by Eric Morris
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barabra Tuchman
Corregidor: The Rock Force Assault by E. Flanagan
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa by John Wukovits
MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines by Richard Connaughton
Bataan: Our Last Ditch : The Bataan Campaign, 1942 by John Whitman
Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa by John H. Alexander
Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island by Bill Sloan
Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island by John Wukovits
JAPAN'S LAST BID FOR VICTORY: The Invasion of India, 1944 by Robert Lyman
"Execute against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) By Joel Holwitt
Forgotten Armies by Christopher Bayly
JAPAN'S LAST BID FOR VICTORY: The Invasion of India, 1944 by Robert Lyman
Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the Battle of Kohima by Lesile Edwards
Born in the Jungles of Burma: Behind Enemy Lines in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations by Andrew Wax
The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II by Gerald Astor
The Allied Resupply Effort in the China-Burma-India Theater During World War II by L. Daughtery
Thousand-Mile War - WWII in Alaska
Burma: The Longest War, 1941-19451 Sep 1985 by Louis Allen
Guadalcanal: The Definative Account of the Landmark Battle; Richard B Frank
The campaign for Guadalcanal;: A battle that made history by Jack Coggins
To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific 1944 by Edwin Palmer Hoyt
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions by Alan Zimm
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll
Unit Histories or a close up view of the units involved:
First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway by John Lundstrom
Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 by William H. Bartsch
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight by Robert J. Marzek
First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by John B. Lundstrom
The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf by Edwin P. Hoyt
Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin in World War II by Joseph A. Springer
Coast Watching in World War II: Operations against the Japanese on the Solomon Islands, 1941-43 by A. Feuer
Hunting of Force Z by Richard Hough
Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II by Bruce Gamble
Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45 by Peter C. Smith
Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II by Gene Salecker
Australian Commandos: Their Secret War against the Japanese in WWII by A.B. Feuer
The Twilight Riders: The Last Charge of the 26th Cavalry by Peter F. Stevens
Iron Men and Tin Fish: The Race to Build a Better Torpedo During World War II by Anthony Newpower
American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission by John Wukovits
Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines by John Gordon
Concrete Battleship: Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila Bay by Francis J. Allen
Guests of the Emperor: The Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp by L. G. Holmes
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet by Douglas Ford
Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor by Daniel Madsen
Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal by Homer Wallin
Battalion of the Damned: The 1st Marine Paratroopers at Gavutu and Bloody Ridge, 1942 by James F. Christ
Building for Victory: World War II in China, Burma, and India and the 1875th Engineer Aviation Battalion by William King
An Airline at War: The Story of China National Aviation Corporation and its Men by Robert Willet
Eagles, Bulldogs & Tigers: History of the 22nd Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India by David Hayward
US Subs Down Under. Brisbane, 1942 -1945 David Jones and Peter Nunan
The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Vol. 1 by William L. McGee
McGee, William L., The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville, Pacific War Turning Point, Vol. II by William L. McGee
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet by Douglas Ford
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn
Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal by Michael T. Smith
The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by John B. Lundstrom
Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific
Some Personal Histories or "There I was..."
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
Queen of the Flat-Tops by Stanley Johnson
I Saw Tokyo Burning: An Eyewitness Narrative from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima by Robert Guillian
Baa Baa Black Sheep by LtCol. Gregory Boyington USMC (Ret.)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson
God Is My Co-Pilot by R. L. Scott
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway-The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes by Captain Tamiachi Hara JMSDF (Ret.)
Take Her Deep!: A Submarine Against Japan in World War II by Adm. I. J. Galantin
Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II by Ann Layson
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 by John Glusman
All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese by Evelyn Monahan
Descent into Darkness Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Edward Raymer
You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War by Dr. Sid Phillips
Bluejacket Odyssey, 1942-1946: Guadalcanal to Bikini, Naval Armed Guard in the Pacific by William McGee
Paddles!: The Foibles and Finesse of One World War II Landing Signal Officer by Captain John Harper USNR
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific by Allistar Urqhart
Dragon of the Mangroves by Yasuyuki Kasai
Quartered Safe Out Here
The Brave Japanese
from Dixie
Ship of Ghosts - James D Hornfischer
Fleet the Gods Forgot: U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II - by W.G. Winslow
D-Days in the Pacific by Ken Wiley
Clear the Bridge! The War Patrols of the USS Tang by Richard H. O'Kane
Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II by Richard H. O'Kane
Pigboat 39: An American Submarine Goes to War. by Bobette Gugliola
Descent into Darkness Pearl Harbor 1941 - A Navy Diver's Memoir by Edward C. Raymer
James Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary
Biographies or A snapshot of people's lives:
Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller by Burke Davis
The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance by Captain Thomans Buell USNR
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway & Guadalcanal by John B. Lundstrom
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964 by William Manchester
MacArthur: America's General (The Generals) by Mitchell Yockleson
Reaper Leader: The Life of Jimmy Flatley by Steve Ewing
The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy by H. Agawa
Bull Halsey by E. B. Potter
Nimitz E.B. Potter
The Magnificent Mitscher by T. Taylor
Fateful Rendezvous: The Life of Butch O'Hare by Steve Ewing
Fist From the Sky: Japan's Dive-Bomber Ace of World War II by Peter C. Smith
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann-The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army Against the Japanese, and ... True "Father" of Army Special Forces by Mark Guardia
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson
Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943 by David J. Ulbrich
Fighting Spirit: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima by Robert Eldridge
General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman by Ed Cray
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor
The Stilwell Papers by General J. Stilwell
General Wainwright's Story: The Account of Four Years of Humiliating Defeat, Surrender, and Captivity by General Wainwright
Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West (American Studies Series) by Mark S. Foster
Henry J. Kaiser: Western Colossus by Albert Heiner
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Bill Slim: The background, strategies, tactics and battlefield experiences of the greatest commanders of history by Robert Lyman
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller
The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China by Jack Sampson
Logistics and Behind the Front Lines
Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II, Vol. III by William L. McGee
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil by Rear Adm. Worrall Reed Carter USN (Retired)
Home Front
Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman from Pascal and obvert
Double Victory: A Multi-Cultural History of World War II by Ronald Takaki from obvert
The Game Must Go On by John Klima from obvert
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II from obvert
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II by Emily Yellin from obvert
A few Post-War books
The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal: Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific by Robert Ballard
Return to Midway by Robert Ballard
Collision With History: The Search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109 by Robert Ballard
Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific by Gerald Meehl
25 Best World War II Sites Pacific Theater by Chuck Thompson
Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II: Then and Now by Earl Hinz
War of Our Fathers: Relics of the Pacific Battlefields by Richard Marin
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II by E. B. Sledge
Major Problems in the History of World War II: Documents and Essays by Mark Stoler - this is a text book as part of a series that presents pro/cons about various subjects. I have had to use some of the same series in college classes and some essays are interesting to read. This is presented as a way to generate some deep thoughts or even see the opposing side of a few topics.
Refighting the Pacific War: An Alternate History edited by Jim Bresnahan
Fiction Set in the Pacific in WWII
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Tales from the South Pacific by James A Michener
In the Era but just for fun
Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific (Vol. 1) (Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer) by Roy Crane
Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin
Websites with Books
from pascal:
A link to the HyperWar website where many books and documents are available in HTML format. Many of the US official histories are already there, some of the UK. Check the listings there.
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar
Also, the Australian and New Zealand official histories are available online.
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-WH2.html
(To be added soon!
Working my way through this to provide links; it'll be a while)
from JeffK
Couple of boxes in the Garage I havent seen for years as well.
Fire in the night by John Bierman and Colin Smith A biography of Orde Wingate
The Desert and The Jungle by Lt Gen Sir Geoffrey Evans British Commander
The Green Beret by Hilary St George Saunders British Commandos including landings at Arakan/Ramree Is
Behinfd Bamboo by Rohan Rivett POW
The Ridge and the River by T A G Hungerford Novel based in Bouganville by an Australian Commando
Australian Commanders in WW2 by Garth Pratten What made an Australian Bn commander, wins and losses.
The Only Enemy by Bri Sir John Smyth VC Sittang Bridge
Silent Victory by Clay Blair
1931 The Great Pacigfic War by Hector Bywater
Wedemeyer Repoerts by A C Wedemeyer Replaced Stillwell in CBI
Nothing over us by David Hay Unit history of 2/6 Aust Inf Bn
Second Eighth by ? U nit History of 2/8 Aust Inf Bn
Macarthur - Victory in th Pacific by C A Willoughby History rewritten/glossed over and prettied up
Why Singapore Fell by H G Bennet See above
Battle of Kohima by Arthur Swinson The end of the March on Delhi
Nemisis by Max Hastings
Dust, Sand and Jungle by Paul Handel Story of Australian armour
Codename Downfall by Allen and Polmer
The Jungle is Neutral by F Spencer Chapman Guerillas in Malaya
Tank Tracks to Rangoon by Bryan Perret British/Indian armour in Burma
Australian Army Xmas Books Stories from the troops, includes a good commentary of the battles
Shattered Storm by Parshall & Tully
The Heroes by Ronald McKie The Krait story
Defeat into Victory by Fd Marshal W Slim
Spearhead General by Henry Maule The story of Frank Messervy
from bushpu
A few to add:
Biographies
Admiral Arleigh Burke by E.B. Potter
All the Factors of Victory by Widenberg ( a bio on Adm. Mason Reeves and the beginnings of US CV power)
References
Americas 100,000 by Francis Dean (a tech breakdown of US fighter aircraft)
General Histories
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy
Victory at Sea by Dunnigan and Nofi
Hell to Pay by Giangreco (the planning for the invasion of Japan proper)
Whirlwind by Barrett Tillman (air war against Japan)
Winged Victory by Geoffrey Perret (total US air war story)
General Strategy
Moltke: The Art of War by Daniel Hughes
Strategy by BH Liddell Hart (covers everything up to WWII)
Warfighting by Lt. Col Hayden ( a modern primer on Marine tactics)
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from warspite1
British Destroyers and Frigates – The Second World War and after by Norman Friedman
Guadalcanal by Richard R Frank
The British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs
The Forgotten Fleet by John Winton
British Battleships 1919-1945 by R A Burt
The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse by Middlebrook and Mahoney
Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart D Goldman
Rising Sun, Falling Skies by Jeffery R Cox
The Imperial Japanese Navy In The Pacific War by Mark E Stille
Singapore The Pregnable Fortress by Peter Elphick
Odd Man Out The Story of the Singapore Traitor by Peter Elphick and Michael Smith
Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869-1945 by Jentshura Jung and Mickel
The Shame of Savo by Bruce Loxton
The Battle of Leyte Gulf by Thomas Cutler
Various “Campaign” titles by Osprey Publishing includes:
- Hong Kong 1941-45
- The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942
- Santa Cruz 1942
- The Fall of The Philippines 1941-42
- Wake Island 1941
- Kohima 1944
- Midway 1942
- The Coral Sea 1942
- Japan 1945
- Leyte Gulf 944
- The Doolittle Raid 1942
- Saipan & Tinian 1944
- Peleliu 1944
- Iwo Jima 1945
- Tarawa 1943
- Guadalcanal 1942
- Guam 1941-44
- The Marshall Islands 1944
- Okinawa 1945
- Pearl Harbor 1941
Added a bunch of stuff from the suggestions. I still have some to go from this thread, listed at the bottom, and then some from the other current book thread. Then I might do some reading. [:)]
Pre-War Books or How we set the Stage:
Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy by Captain J.T. Kuhen USN(Ret)
Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China by RADM Kemp Tolley
War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 by Edward S. Miller
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period by Williamson Murray
Two-Block Fox: The Rise of the Aircraft Carrier, 1911-1929 by Charles Melhorn [Note out of Print since the mid 1980's very hard to find]
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 by David C. Evans
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Micheal Barnhart
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret McMillian
The Treaty Navy: The Story of the US Naval Service Between the World Wars by James Hammond
Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor by Edward S. Miller
Sunburst by Mark Peattie from Pascal
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945By John Toland from Apollo11
At Dawn We Slept / Dec. 7th / Pearl Harbor - The Verdict of History from LargeSlowTarget
Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific by Akira Iriye
Cry Havoc: The Arms Race and the Second World War, 1931-41 by Joe Maiolo
Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941-42
General Refernce Books or some information on the platforms:
U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History, Revised Edition by Norman Friedman
U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Submarines Through 1945 : An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War by Norman Friedman
British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After by Norman Friedman
U.S. Small Combatants, Including Pt-Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman
British Naval Aircraft Since 1912 (Putnam Aviation Series) by Owen Thetford
United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911 (Putnam's US aircraft) by Gordon Swanbourough
Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War by Rene Francillion
Dive Bomber! by Peter C. Smith
The B-24 in China: General Chennault's Secret Weapon in WWII by A. Feuer
The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Vol. 1 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII series) by William McGee
Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II, Vol. III (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII series) by William McGee
The INVENTION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: HOW A SMALL GROUP OF RADAR PIONEERS WON THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND LAUNCHED A TECH by Robert Burdei
SETTING OF THE RISING SUN, THE: Japanese Military Aviation 1877-1945 by Terry Treadwell
The M1 Garand, 1936-1957 by Joe Poyer
Report of Joint Fighter Conference: : NAS Patuxent River, MD - 16-23 October 1944 (Schiffer Military History)
The Army Air Forces in World War II from oldman45
The Deadly Fuze by R B Baldwin: development of the anti-aircraft artillery proximity fuze
A Radar History of World War II by Louis Brown from Pascal
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by Eric Lacroix and Linton Wells II
General Overview of the War or The Big Picture:
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan by Ronald Spector
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II 15 Volume Set by RADM S. E. Morison
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan by Robert Leckie
Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War by RADM S. E. Morison
Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 by H.P. Willmott
Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942 by H.P. Willmott
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 by Mark Peattie
December 1941 by Evan Mawdsley
Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II by David Downing
Reporting World War II, Part 1: American Journalism, 1938-1944 by Library of America
Reporting World War II Part Two: American Journalism 1944-46 by Samuel Hynes
The Chancy War: Winning China, Burma, and India in World War II by Edward Fischer
A World at Arms by Gerhard Weinberg from Pascal
Touched With Fire by Eric Bergerud
Fire in the Sky by Eric Bergerud from wpurdom
H.P. Wilmott: Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (World War II) from Sardaukar
H.P. Wilmott: Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942 from Sardaukar
Oil On The Water: The Naval War In The South Pacific from SuluSea
Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald H. Spector
Battles Histories or the inside view of a battle:
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by J. Parshall
Clash of The Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by Barrett Tillman
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornsfischer
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornsfischer
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Vintage) by Max Hastings
Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island by Denis Warner
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor by W. B. Breuer
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
The Times When Men Must Die: The Story of the Destruction of the Philippine Army During the Early Months of World War II in the Pacific, December 1941-may 1942 by Marconi M. Dosoi
Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II by Eric Morris
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barabra Tuchman
Corregidor: The Rock Force Assault by E. Flanagan
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa by John Wukovits
MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines by Richard Connaughton
Bataan: Our Last Ditch : The Bataan Campaign, 1942 by John Whitman
Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa by John H. Alexander
Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island by Bill Sloan
Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island by John Wukovits
JAPAN'S LAST BID FOR VICTORY: The Invasion of India, 1944 by Robert Lyman
"Execute against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) By Joel Holwitt
Forgotten Armies by Christopher Bayly
JAPAN'S LAST BID FOR VICTORY: The Invasion of India, 1944 by Robert Lyman
Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the Battle of Kohima by Lesile Edwards
Born in the Jungles of Burma: Behind Enemy Lines in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations by Andrew Wax
The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II by Gerald Astor
The Allied Resupply Effort in the China-Burma-India Theater During World War II by L. Daughtery
Thousand-Mile War - WWII in Alaska
Burma: The Longest War, 1941-19451 Sep 1985 by Louis Allen
Guadalcanal: The Definative Account of the Landmark Battle; Richard B Frank
The campaign for Guadalcanal;: A battle that made history by Jack Coggins
To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific 1944 by Edwin Palmer Hoyt
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions by Alan Zimm
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll
Unit Histories or a close up view of the units involved:
First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway by John Lundstrom
Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 by William H. Bartsch
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight by Robert J. Marzek
First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by John B. Lundstrom
The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf by Edwin P. Hoyt
Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin in World War II by Joseph A. Springer
Coast Watching in World War II: Operations against the Japanese on the Solomon Islands, 1941-43 by A. Feuer
Hunting of Force Z by Richard Hough
Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II by Bruce Gamble
Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45 by Peter C. Smith
Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II by Gene Salecker
Australian Commandos: Their Secret War against the Japanese in WWII by A.B. Feuer
The Twilight Riders: The Last Charge of the 26th Cavalry by Peter F. Stevens
Iron Men and Tin Fish: The Race to Build a Better Torpedo During World War II by Anthony Newpower
American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission by John Wukovits
Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines by John Gordon
Concrete Battleship: Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila Bay by Francis J. Allen
Guests of the Emperor: The Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp by L. G. Holmes
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet by Douglas Ford
Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor by Daniel Madsen
Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal by Homer Wallin
Battalion of the Damned: The 1st Marine Paratroopers at Gavutu and Bloody Ridge, 1942 by James F. Christ
Building for Victory: World War II in China, Burma, and India and the 1875th Engineer Aviation Battalion by William King
An Airline at War: The Story of China National Aviation Corporation and its Men by Robert Willet
Eagles, Bulldogs & Tigers: History of the 22nd Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India by David Hayward
US Subs Down Under. Brisbane, 1942 -1945 David Jones and Peter Nunan
The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Vol. 1 by William L. McGee
McGee, William L., The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville, Pacific War Turning Point, Vol. II by William L. McGee
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet by Douglas Ford
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn
Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal by Michael T. Smith
The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by John B. Lundstrom
Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific
Some Personal Histories or "There I was..."
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
Queen of the Flat-Tops by Stanley Johnson
I Saw Tokyo Burning: An Eyewitness Narrative from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima by Robert Guillian
Baa Baa Black Sheep by LtCol. Gregory Boyington USMC (Ret.)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson
God Is My Co-Pilot by R. L. Scott
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway-The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes by Captain Tamiachi Hara JMSDF (Ret.)
Take Her Deep!: A Submarine Against Japan in World War II by Adm. I. J. Galantin
Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II by Ann Layson
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 by John Glusman
All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese by Evelyn Monahan
Descent into Darkness Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Edward Raymer
You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War by Dr. Sid Phillips
Bluejacket Odyssey, 1942-1946: Guadalcanal to Bikini, Naval Armed Guard in the Pacific by William McGee
Paddles!: The Foibles and Finesse of One World War II Landing Signal Officer by Captain John Harper USNR
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific by Allistar Urqhart
Dragon of the Mangroves by Yasuyuki Kasai
Quartered Safe Out Here
The Brave Japanese
from Dixie
Ship of Ghosts - James D Hornfischer
Fleet the Gods Forgot: U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II - by W.G. Winslow
D-Days in the Pacific by Ken Wiley
Clear the Bridge! The War Patrols of the USS Tang by Richard H. O'Kane
Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II by Richard H. O'Kane
Pigboat 39: An American Submarine Goes to War. by Bobette Gugliola
Descent into Darkness Pearl Harbor 1941 - A Navy Diver's Memoir by Edward C. Raymer
James Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary
Biographies or A snapshot of people's lives:
Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller by Burke Davis
The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance by Captain Thomans Buell USNR
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway & Guadalcanal by John B. Lundstrom
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964 by William Manchester
MacArthur: America's General (The Generals) by Mitchell Yockleson
Reaper Leader: The Life of Jimmy Flatley by Steve Ewing
The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy by H. Agawa
Bull Halsey by E. B. Potter
Nimitz E.B. Potter
The Magnificent Mitscher by T. Taylor
Fateful Rendezvous: The Life of Butch O'Hare by Steve Ewing
Fist From the Sky: Japan's Dive-Bomber Ace of World War II by Peter C. Smith
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann-The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army Against the Japanese, and ... True "Father" of Army Special Forces by Mark Guardia
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson
Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943 by David J. Ulbrich
Fighting Spirit: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima by Robert Eldridge
General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman by Ed Cray
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor
The Stilwell Papers by General J. Stilwell
General Wainwright's Story: The Account of Four Years of Humiliating Defeat, Surrender, and Captivity by General Wainwright
Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West (American Studies Series) by Mark S. Foster
Henry J. Kaiser: Western Colossus by Albert Heiner
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Bill Slim: The background, strategies, tactics and battlefield experiences of the greatest commanders of history by Robert Lyman
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller
The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China by Jack Sampson
Logistics and Behind the Front Lines
Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II, Vol. III by William L. McGee
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil by Rear Adm. Worrall Reed Carter USN (Retired)
Home Front
Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman from Pascal and obvert
Double Victory: A Multi-Cultural History of World War II by Ronald Takaki from obvert
The Game Must Go On by John Klima from obvert
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II from obvert
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II by Emily Yellin from obvert
A few Post-War books
The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal: Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific by Robert Ballard
Return to Midway by Robert Ballard
Collision With History: The Search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109 by Robert Ballard
Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific by Gerald Meehl
25 Best World War II Sites Pacific Theater by Chuck Thompson
Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II: Then and Now by Earl Hinz
War of Our Fathers: Relics of the Pacific Battlefields by Richard Marin
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II by E. B. Sledge
Major Problems in the History of World War II: Documents and Essays by Mark Stoler - this is a text book as part of a series that presents pro/cons about various subjects. I have had to use some of the same series in college classes and some essays are interesting to read. This is presented as a way to generate some deep thoughts or even see the opposing side of a few topics.
Refighting the Pacific War: An Alternate History edited by Jim Bresnahan
Fiction Set in the Pacific in WWII
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Tales from the South Pacific by James A Michener
In the Era but just for fun
Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific (Vol. 1) (Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer) by Roy Crane
Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin
Websites with Books
from pascal:
A link to the HyperWar website where many books and documents are available in HTML format. Many of the US official histories are already there, some of the UK. Check the listings there.
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar
Also, the Australian and New Zealand official histories are available online.
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-WH2.html
(To be added soon!
Working my way through this to provide links; it'll be a while)
from JeffK
Couple of boxes in the Garage I havent seen for years as well.
Fire in the night by John Bierman and Colin Smith A biography of Orde Wingate
The Desert and The Jungle by Lt Gen Sir Geoffrey Evans British Commander
The Green Beret by Hilary St George Saunders British Commandos including landings at Arakan/Ramree Is
Behinfd Bamboo by Rohan Rivett POW
The Ridge and the River by T A G Hungerford Novel based in Bouganville by an Australian Commando
Australian Commanders in WW2 by Garth Pratten What made an Australian Bn commander, wins and losses.
The Only Enemy by Bri Sir John Smyth VC Sittang Bridge
Silent Victory by Clay Blair
1931 The Great Pacigfic War by Hector Bywater
Wedemeyer Repoerts by A C Wedemeyer Replaced Stillwell in CBI
Nothing over us by David Hay Unit history of 2/6 Aust Inf Bn
Second Eighth by ? U nit History of 2/8 Aust Inf Bn
Macarthur - Victory in th Pacific by C A Willoughby History rewritten/glossed over and prettied up
Why Singapore Fell by H G Bennet See above
Battle of Kohima by Arthur Swinson The end of the March on Delhi
Nemisis by Max Hastings
Dust, Sand and Jungle by Paul Handel Story of Australian armour
Codename Downfall by Allen and Polmer
The Jungle is Neutral by F Spencer Chapman Guerillas in Malaya
Tank Tracks to Rangoon by Bryan Perret British/Indian armour in Burma
Australian Army Xmas Books Stories from the troops, includes a good commentary of the battles
Shattered Storm by Parshall & Tully
The Heroes by Ronald McKie The Krait story
Defeat into Victory by Fd Marshal W Slim
Spearhead General by Henry Maule The story of Frank Messervy
from bushpu
A few to add:
Biographies
Admiral Arleigh Burke by E.B. Potter
All the Factors of Victory by Widenberg ( a bio on Adm. Mason Reeves and the beginnings of US CV power)
References
Americas 100,000 by Francis Dean (a tech breakdown of US fighter aircraft)
General Histories
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy
Victory at Sea by Dunnigan and Nofi
Hell to Pay by Giangreco (the planning for the invasion of Japan proper)
Whirlwind by Barrett Tillman (air war against Japan)
Winged Victory by Geoffrey Perret (total US air war story)
General Strategy
Moltke: The Art of War by Daniel Hughes
Strategy by BH Liddell Hart (covers everything up to WWII)
Warfighting by Lt. Col Hayden ( a modern primer on Marine tactics)
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from warspite1
British Destroyers and Frigates – The Second World War and after by Norman Friedman
Guadalcanal by Richard R Frank
The British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs
The Forgotten Fleet by John Winton
British Battleships 1919-1945 by R A Burt
The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse by Middlebrook and Mahoney
Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart D Goldman
Rising Sun, Falling Skies by Jeffery R Cox
The Imperial Japanese Navy In The Pacific War by Mark E Stille
Singapore The Pregnable Fortress by Peter Elphick
Odd Man Out The Story of the Singapore Traitor by Peter Elphick and Michael Smith
Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869-1945 by Jentshura Jung and Mickel
The Shame of Savo by Bruce Loxton
The Battle of Leyte Gulf by Thomas Cutler
Various “Campaign” titles by Osprey Publishing includes:
- Hong Kong 1941-45
- The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942
- Santa Cruz 1942
- The Fall of The Philippines 1941-42
- Wake Island 1941
- Kohima 1944
- Midway 1942
- The Coral Sea 1942
- Japan 1945
- Leyte Gulf 944
- The Doolittle Raid 1942
- Saipan & Tinian 1944
- Peleliu 1944
- Iwo Jima 1945
- Tarawa 1943
- Guadalcanal 1942
- Guam 1941-44
- The Marshall Islands 1944
- Okinawa 1945
- Pearl Harbor 1941
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill