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===Pacific===
===Pacific===
===Coming of war===
* Barnhart, Michael A. ''Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941'' (1987)
* Barnhart, Michael A. ''Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941'' (1987)
* Butow, Robert J. C. ''Tojo and the Coming of the War'' (1961)
* Butow, Robert J. C. ''Tojo and the Coming of the War'' (1961)
* Dallek, Robert. ''Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945'' (1995).
* Dallek, Robert. ''Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945'' (1995).
* Yomiuri Shimbun. ''Who Was Responsible? From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor'' (2007)
* Yomiuri Shimbun. ''Who Was Responsible? From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor'' (2007)
ISBN 4643060123 [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20070311a1.html review]
ISBN 4643060123 [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20070311a1.html review]
===Wartime===
* Appleman, Roy Edgar, et al. ''Okinawa: the last battle'', (United States Army in World War II: The war in the Pacific) (1948), very thorough U.S. Army official history [http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/ online edition]
* Bartley, Whitman S. ''Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic'' (1954) [http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-IwoJima/index.html online edition]
* Bergerud, Eric M. ''Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific'' (2000) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=82355094 online edition]
* Bix, Herbert. ''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' (2000)
* Blair Jr., Clay, ''Silent Victory'' (1975), on submarines
* Boggs, Major Charles W., Jr. ''Marine Aviation in the Philippines'' (1951) [http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-AvPhil/ onlne edition]
* Buell, Thomas. ''Master of Seapower: A Biography of Admiral Ernest J. King'' (1976).
* Buell, Thomas. ''The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond Spruance''. (1974).
* Costello, John. ''The Pacific War''. (1982). survey
* Craven, Wesley, and James Cate, eds. ''The Army Air Forces in World War II.'' (1958). Official history in 7 vol; [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/I/index.html Vol. 1, Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942'' online edition] [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/IV/index.html Vol. 4, The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944''. 1950 online edition]; [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/V/index.html Vol. 5, The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki''. 1953. parts on-line]
* Dull, Paul S. ''A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941 - 1945)'', (1978) (ISBN: 0870210971)
* Dunnigan, James F., and Albert A. Nofi. ''The Pacific War Encyclopedia.'' (2 vol 1998) 772p.
* Gailey, Harry A. ''The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay'' (1995) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94432774 online edition]
* Hastings, Max. ''Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45'' (2008), 656pp
* Hayashi, Saburo, and Alvin Coox. ''Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War''. Quantico, Va.: Marine Corps Assoc., 1959.
* Inoguchi, Rikihei, Tadashi Nakajima, and Robert Pineau. ''The Divine Wind''. 1958. on [[Kamikaze]].
* James, D. Clayton ''The Years of MacArthur''. Vol. 2., 1972.
* 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., ed. ''We Shall Return: MacArthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan''. (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.
* Marston, Daniel, ed. ''The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima'' (2005), 272pp [http://www.amazon.com/Pacific-War-Companion-Harbor-Hiroshima/dp/1841768820/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214103598&sr=8-29 excerpt and text search]
* Matloff, Maurice, and Edwin M. Snell. ''Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1941–1942''], (1990), grand strategyfrom Washington perspective [http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/Sp1941-42/index.htm online edition]
* Morison, Samuel Eliot. ''History of United States Naval Operations in World War II''. Vol. 3, The Rising Sun in the Pacific. (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). classic official history of U.S> Navy
* Nichols, Chas. S. Jr., and Henry I. Shaw, Jr. ''Okinawa: Victory in the Pacific'' (1955), excellent official Marine Corps history; [http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Okinawa/index.html online edition]
* Okumiya, Masatake and Mitso Fuchida. ''Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan''. (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).
* Prange, Gordon W. ''At Dawn We Slept''. (1982) , the standard history of the Pearl Harbor attack [http://www.amazon.com/At-Dawn-Slept-Gordon-Prange/dp/0140157344/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214102682&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Prange, Gordon W. ''Miracle at Midway''. (1982), the standard history [http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-at-Midway-Gordon-Prange/dp/0140068147/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214102644&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* 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 Occupation'' (1968) [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/index.html online 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'' (1985). [http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Against-Sun-American-Japan/dp/0394741013 excerpt and text search]
* Toland, John. '' The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945'' (1970); Pulitzer Prize history from Japanese perspective; [http://www.amazon.com/Rising-Sun-Decline-Japanese-1936-1945/dp/0812968581/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213479772&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Willmott, H. P. ''Empires in Balance''. (1982).
* Weinberg, Gerhard L. ''A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II,'' (2005), the most thorough coverage of grand strategy [http://www.amazon.com/World-Arms-Global-History-War/dp/0521558794 excerpt and text search]
* Woodward, C. Vann. ''The Battle for Leyte Gulf'' (1947) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-battle-for-leyte-gulf-by-c-vann-woodward.jsp online edition]
* Yahara, Hiromichi. ''The Battle For Okinawa'' (1997), Japanese perspective [http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Okinawa-Hiromichi-Yahara/dp/0471180807/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213434535&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Y'Blood, William. ''Red Sun Setting: The Battle of the Philippine Sea''. (1980).
* Zimmerman, John L. ''The Guadalcanal Campaign'' (1949) [http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Guadalcanal.html online edition]
====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.
====China====
* Byrd Martha. ''Chennault: Giving Wings to the Tiger.'' (1987). * Ch'i, Hsi-sheng. ''Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937–1945'' (1982), 309pp
* Fenby, Jonathan. ''Chiang Kai-shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost'' (2004), 592pp [http://www.amazon.com/Chiang-Kai-Shek-Chinas-Generalissimo/dp/B000T9VO2U/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214082451&sr=8-5 excerpt and text search]
* Hsiung, James C. and Steven I. Levine, eds. ''China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945'' (1992) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/chinas-bitter-victory-the-war-with-japan-1937-1945-by-james-c-hsiung-steven-i-levine.jsp online edition]
* Hsi-sheng, Ch'i. ''Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937–1945'' (1982)
* Liu F. F. ''A Military History of Modern China, 1924-1949.'' (1956).
* Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland. ''Stilwell's Mission to China'' (1953), official U.S. Army history [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-CBI-Mission/index.html online edition]
* Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland. ''Stilwell's Command Problems'' (1956) [http://www.ibiblio.net/hyperwar////USA/USA-CBI-Command/index.html online edition]
* Schaller Michael. ''The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945.'' (1979). [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-us-crusade-in-china-1938-1945-by-michael-schaller.jsp online edition]
* Taylor, Jay. ''The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China'' (2009), 722 pp. highly favorable scholarly biography
* Tsou, Tang ''America's Failure in China, 1941-50'' (1963).
* Tuchman, Barbara. ''Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45,'' (1972), 624pp; Pulitzer prize (The British edition is titled ''Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45,'') [http://www.amazon.com/Stilwell-American-Experience-China-1911-45/dp/0802138527/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214005449&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search], very hostile to Chiang
* Ven, Hans van de. ''War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945'' (2003), negative on Stilwell [http://www.questia.com/read/107990148?title=War%20and%20Nationalism%20in%20China%201925-1945 online edition]
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