WilliamMiller wrote: Sun May 21, 2023 12:17 am
Here is an additional bibliography of books used for RTW3, categorized by our own John Smith from NWS:
Warship and Naval Weapons development
The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990, One Hundred Years of Sea Power, George W. Baer
Aircraft Carriers - A history of carrier Aviation and it influence on world events Vol. I, 1909-1945, Norman Polmar
American & British Aircraft Carrier Development 1919-1941, Tomas C. Hone, Norman Friedman, Mark D. Mandeles
The Fast Carriers, The Forging of an Air Navy, Clark C. Reynolds
British Battleships, 1919-1939, R. A. Burt
The Aircraft Carrier Story, 1908-1945, Guy Robbins
Titans of the Sea, the Development and Operations of Japanese and American Carrier Task Forces during WWII, James H Belote and William M. Belote
The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapons Systems, 1994, Norman Friedman
A Century of Carrier Aviation, the Evolution of Ships and Shipborne Aircraft, David Hobbs
Air power
Why Air Forces Fail, the Anatomy of Defeat, Robin Highman and Stephen J. Harris, editors
Catapult Aircraft, Seaplanes that Flew from Ships Without Flight Decks, Leo Marriot
The History of Dive Bombing, Peter C. Smith
The Narrow Margin, the Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power, 1930-1949, Derek Wood & Derek Dempster
A History of the Luftwaffe, John Killen
Electronic warfare
The History of US Electronic Warfare, Vol. I and Vol. II, Alfred Price
Confound and Destroy, 100 Group and the Bomber Support Campaign, Martin Streetly
Missile era Naval Theory and Tactics
Fleet Tactics, Theory and Practice, Capt. Wayne P. Hughes, Jr., USN (Ret)
The Battle for the Falklands, Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins
The Leverage of Seapower, The Strategic Advantage of Navies in War, Collin S. Gray
Between the wars
Military innovation in the Interwar Period, Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millet, ed.
Warships After Washington, The Development of the Five Major Fleets 1922-1930, John Jordan
Histories - Pacific
Victory at Sea, World War II in the Pacific, James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi
The Air War, 1939-1945, R. J. Overy
The Pacific War, World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945, Saburo Ienaga
The Thousand Mile War, World War II in the Alaska and Aleutians, Brian Garfield
The Conquering Tide, War in the Pacific Islands 1942-1944, Ian W. Toll
The Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945), Paul S. Dull
Japanese Destroyer Captain, Capt. Tameichi Hara, with Fred Sato and Roger Pineau
Eagle Against the Sun, The American War with Japan, Ronald H. Spector
Quadalcanal, The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, Richard B. Frank
Quadalcanal, The Carrier Battles, Carrier Operations in the Solomons Aug.-Oct. 1942, Eric Hammel
Quadalcanal, Starvation Island, Erric Hammel
Quadalcanal, Edwin P. Hoyt
The Glory of the Solomons, Edwin P. Hoyt
The Battle for Quadalcanal, Samuel B. Griffith II, Brig. Gen. USMC (Ret.)
Above and Beyond 1941-1945, Wilbur H. Morrison
The Big "E", the stirring Saga of the U.S.S. Enterprise and the men who sailed her, Commander Edward P. Stafford USN
History of Warships, From Ancient Time to the Twenty-First Century, James L. George
Queen of the Flat-tops, the U.S.S. Lexington, Stanley Johnston
Histories - European Theatre
Strategy for Defeat, the Luftwaffe 1939-1945, Williamson Murray
The Disastrous Fall and Triumphant Rise of the Fleet Air Arm from 1912 to 1945, Henry 'Hank' Adlam
The Naval War Against Hitler, Donald Macintyre
The German Navy in World War Two, Edward P. Von der Porten
The Military Errors of World War Two, Kenneth Macksey
The First World War, John Keegan
Histories - Med
Struggle for the Middle Sea, The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theatre, 1940-1945, Vincent P. O'Hara
A Short History of Air Power, James L. Stokesbury
Castles of Steel, Rabert K. Massie
The First Air War, 1914-1918, Lee Kennet
Hitler's Mediterranean Gamble, The North African and Mediterranean Campaigns in WWII, Douglas Porch
Histories - Korea
The Naval Air War in Korea, Richard P Hallion
The Sea War in Korea, Malcolm W. Cagle, Commander, USN, Frank A Manson, Commander, USN
The U.S. Navy in the Korean War, Edward J. Marolda, editor
