World War Two in the Pacific/Bibliography

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Bibliography

• Bergerud, Eric M. Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (2000) online edition
• Blair Jr., Clay, Silent Victory 1975, on submarines
• Buell, Thomas. Master of Seapower: A Biography of Admiral Ernest J. King Naval Institute Press, 1976.
• Buell, Thomas. The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond Spruance. 1974.
• Costello, John. The Pacific War. 1982.
• Craven, Wesley, and James Cate, eds. The Army Air Forces in World War II. (1958). Official history in 7 vol; Vol. 1, Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942 online edition Vol. 4, The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944. 1950 online edition; Vol. 5, The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki. 1953. parts on-line
• Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941 - 1945), Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1978 (ISBN: 0870210971)
• Dunnigan, James F., and Albert A. Nofi. The Pacific War Encyclopedia. Facts on File, 1998. 2 vols. 772p.
• Gailey, Harry A. The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (1995) online edition
• Hayashi, Saburo, and Alvin Coox. Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Quantico, Va.: Marine Corps Assoc., 1959.
• Hsiung, James C. and Steven I. Levine, eds. China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945 M. E. Sharpe, 1992
• Hsi-sheng, Ch'i. Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937–1945 University of Michigan Press, 1982
• Inoguchi, Rikihei, Tadashi Nakajima, and Robert Pineau. The Divine Wind. 1958. Kamikaze.
• Kirby, S. Woodburn. The War Against Japan. 4 vols. London: H.M.S.O., 1957-1965. Highly detailed official Royal Navy history.
• Leary, William M. We Shall Return: MacArthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan. University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
• Long, Gavin. Australia in the War of 1939–45, Army. Vol. 7, The Final Campaigns. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1963.
• McCarthy, Dudley. Australia in the War of 1939–45, Army. Vol. 5, South-West Pacific Area—First Year: Kokoda to Wau. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1959.
• James, D. Clayton The Years of MacArthur. Vol. 2., 1972.
• Matloff, Maurice, and Edwin M. Snell Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1941–1942, Center of Military History United States Army Washington, D. C., 1990
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 3, The Rising Sun in the Pacific. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961; Vol. 4, Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions. 1949; Vol. 5, The Struggle for Guadalcanal. 1949; Vol. 6, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier. 1950; Vol. 7, Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls. 1951; Vol. 8, New Guinea and the Marianas. 1962; Vol. 12, Leyte. 1958; vol. 13, The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas. 1959; Vol. 14, Victory in the Pacific. 1961.
• Okumiya, Masatake and Mitso Fuchida. Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan. Naval Institute Press, 1955.
• Potter, E. B. and Chester W. Nimitz. Triumph in the Pacific. 1963. Naval battles
• Potter, E. B. Bull Halsey 1985.
• Potter, E. B. Nimitz. 1976.
• Potter, John D. Yamamoto 1967.
• Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept. 1982. Pearl Harbor
• Prange, Gordon W. Miracle at Midway. , 1982.
• Shaw, Henry et al. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal; Vol. II: Isolation of Rabaul; Vol. III: Central Pacific Drive; Vol. IV: Western Pacific Operations; and Vol. V: Victory and Occupationonline edition
• Smith, J. Douglas and Richard Jensen. World War II on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites. (2002)
• Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan Free Press, 1985.
• Toland, John. The Rising Sun. 2 vols. 1970. Japan's war.
• Willmott, H. P. Empires in Balance. Naval Institute Press, 1982.
• Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, Cambridge University Press. (2005), the most thorough coverage of grand strategy
• Y'Blood, William. Red Sun Setting: The Battle of the Philippine Sea. , 1980.

Primary sources

• Evans, David C., ed, The Japanese Navy In World War Ii: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1993 (ISBN: 0870213164)
• Sledge, E. B. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. Presidio, 1981. Memoir.