A complete and comprehensive history of the war from the Far East to the Japanese surrender in 1945.
When I sit and kind of think back about it now, had it not been for that period, things probably would have been different. I thought at the time, given everything that was happening, there was only one word, “survive.
The division was under the command of Major General Julian C. Smith, who first caught wind of the coming operation in mid-August, when he learned that Admiral Spruance was flying into Wellington and wanted to see him.
“We may wake up”: The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941), pp. 588, 589, and 591. The Washington Star . ... “There is no question”: Goodwin, No Ordinary Time, p. 303. “the conversation was mostly”: Rosenman, ...
This two-volume set covers all sides of WWII's Pacific theater from many perspectives, including insights from Japanese military figures and civilians, African-American soldiers, and women involved in or affected by the war.
... Buffaloes Over Singapore, Grub Street, London, 2008, p. 5. 12. Cull, Brian, Paul Sortehaug and Mark Haselden, Buffaloes Over Singapore, Grub Street, London, 2008, p. 6. 13. Cull, Brian, Paul Sortehaug and Mark Haselden, Buffaloes Over ...
This book examines the overall structure of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), the forces in existence at the beginning of World War II and the organization of the forces committed to the conquest of the Pacific.
Published on the 75th anniversary of the battle and utilizing vivid accounts written by the combatants at Guadalcanal, along with Marine Corps and Army archives and oral histories, Midnight in the Pacific is both a sweeping narrative and a ...
As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific.
Drea, Edward J. MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942–1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1992. Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941–1945).