Description
Japan’s rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe.
Dan’s research and book list:
1. 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 Rozell
2. The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II: Over 200 First-Hand Accounts from the Six Years That Tore the World Apart (Mammoth Books) by Jon E. Lewis
3. The Pacific War: 1931-1945 by Saburo Ienaga
4. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II by Len Deighton
5. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur
6. The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II by Edward Frederick Langley (Lord) Russell
7. The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II by George H. Johnston
8. Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud
9. Undefeated: America’s Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor by Bill Sloan
10. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan by Ronald Spector
11. Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila by James M. Scott
12. Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II by Yuki Tanaka
13. The Battle for Singapore: The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II by Peter Thompson
14. Singapore Burning: Heroism And Surrender In World War II by Colin Smith
15. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 by John Toland
16. The Hinge of Fate the Second World War Volume IV by Winston S. Churchill
17. The Second World War: The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
18. The West Point Atlas of War: World War II, The Pacific by Vincent J. Esposito
19. The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present, 2nd Revised Edition by Richard E. Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy
20. 2194 Days of War: An Illustrated Chronology of the Second World War by Cesare Salmaggi and Alfredo Pallavisini
21. World War II at Sea: A Global History by Craig L. Symonds
22. War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945 by James P. Duffy
23. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up by Sheldon H. Harris
24. Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 by Francis Pike
25. Fall of Singapore: The Undefeatable British Fortress Conquered by Mei Mei Chun-Moy