Description
The Asia-Pacific War of 1937-1945 has deep roots. It also involves a Japanese society that’s been called one of the most distinctive on Earth. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story.
Dan’s research and book list
1. “Japan and the Shackles of the Past” by R. Taggart Murphy
2. “The Pacific War: 1931-1945” by Saburo Ienaga
3. “Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II” by Yuki Tanaka
4. “The Making of Modern Japan” by Marius B. Jansen
5. “Inventing the Way of the Samurai” by Oleg Benesch
6. “No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War” by Hiroo Onoda
7 “A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present” by Andrew Gordon
8. “Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945” by Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio
9. “Japan: A Modern History” by James L. McClain
10. “The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945” by by John Toland, Tom Weiner,
11. “Japan at War: An Oral History” by Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook
12. “Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan” by Herbert P Bix
13. “Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze” by Peter Harmsen
14. “A Military History Of China” by David Graff and Robin Higham
15. “The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945” by Mark Peattie (Editor), Edward Drea (Editor), Hans van de Ven (Editor)
16. “The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-33 (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series)” by Sandra Wilson