Description
Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. The results are nightmarish.
Dan’s research and book list:
1. The End of the Imperial Japanese Navy by Masanori Ito
2. Eagle Against the Sun:The American War with Japan by Ronald Spector
3. Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell
4. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian W. Toll
5. The Things Our Fathers Saw—The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation From Hometown, USA-Volume I: Voices of the Pacific Theater by Matthew A. Rozell
6. The West Point Atlas of War: World War II, The Pacific by Vincent J. Esposito
7. Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook
8. Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II’s Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat by Patrick K. O’Donnell
9. Island Fighting (World War II) by Time Life Ed
10. Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II by John Prados
11. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy
12. The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 by Mark Peattie, Edward Drea and Hans van de Ven
13. The Nobility of Failure by Ivan Morris
14. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II by Nathan Miller
15. 2194 days of war: An illustrated chronology of the Second World War by Cesare Salmaggi
16. World War II at Sea: A Global History by Craig L. Symonds
17. Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 by Francis Pike
18. The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers by David C. Evans
19. Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
20. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 by John Toland
21. The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II by George H. Johnston
22. Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud
23. American Warlords: How Roosevelt’s High Command Led America to Victory in World War II by Jonathan W. Jordan
24. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
25. The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II by Edward Frederick Langley Russell
26. A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua by Peter Brune
27. Green Armour by Osmar White
28. Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimons