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Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare.
Dan’s research and book list:
1. “The West Point Atlas of War: World War II, The Pacific” edited by Vincent J. Esposito
2. “Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War” by Robert Leckie
3. “Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific” by Eric M. Bergerud
4. “Roosevelt to Reagan: A Reporter’s Encounters With Nine Presidents“ by Hedley Donovan
5. “The Hinge of Fate (4) (The Second World War)” by Winston S. Churchill
6. “Dictionary of Battles: 1816-1976” by Brigadier Peter Young
7. “The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II” by George H. Johnston
8. “American Warlords: How Roosevelt’s High Command Led America to Victory in World War I” by Jonathan W. Jordan
9. “The end of the Imperial Japanese Navy” by Masanori Ito
10. “The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers” by David C. Evans
11. “The Pacific War: 1931-1945” by Saburo Ienaga
12. “2194 Days of War: An Illustrated Chronology of the Second World War” by Cesare Salmaggi
13. “Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila” by James M. Scott
14. “Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway” by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully
15. “Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle” by Richard B. Frank
16. “Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II” by John Prados
17. “Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan” by Herbert P Bix
18. “The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949” by S. C. M. Paine
19. “The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II” by Edward Frederick Langley Russell
20. “The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present, 2nd Revised Edition” by Richard Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy
21. “Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945” by Francis Pike
22. “Japan at War: An Oral History” by Haruko Taya Cook
23. “Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan” by Ronald H. Spector
24. “Guadalcanal Diary” by Richard Tregaskis
25. “World War II at Sea: A Global History” by Craig L. Symonds
26. “The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944” by Ian W. Toll
27. “Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway – The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes” by Captain Tameichi Hara
28. “The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945” by John Toland
29. “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