Land and Air Operations in the Pacific Theater

Joseph H. Alexander. Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa. Annapolis: Naval Institute       Press, 1995.

      Edison’s Raiders: The 1st Marine Raider Battalion in World War II. Annapolis: Naval            Institute Press, 2001.

 Leslie Anders. The Ledo Road: General Joseph W. Stillwell's Highway to China. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.

 Roy E. Appleman, James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, and John Stevens. Okinawa: The Last Offensive. Washington, DC: GPO,1948.

 Noel Barber. A Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore 1942. Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1968.

 Eric Bergerud. Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Viking, 1996.

      . Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000. 

John Bierman and Colin Smith. Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion            New York: Random House, 1999.

 James Bradley.  Flags of our Fathers. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.

 Richard Connaughton. MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines. New York: Overlook Press,         2001.

 M. Hamlin Cannon. Leyte: The Return To The Philippines. Washington, DC: GPO, 1954.

 Philip A. Crowl. Campaign In The Marianas. Washington, DC: GPO,1960.

 Philip A. Crowl and Edmund G. Love. Seizure Of The Gilberts and Marshalls. Washington, DC: GPO, 1955.

 Frank Dorn. Walkout: with Stilwell in Burma. New York: Crowell,1971.

 Robert L. Eichelberger. Our Jungle Road To Tokyo. Washington, DC: Zenger, 1949.

 Stanley L. Falk. Seventy Days To Singapore. New York: Putnam,1975.

George Feifer. Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.

 Daniel Ford. Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1991.

 E. M. Flanagan. Corregidor: The Rock Assualt. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1988.

 Richard B. Frank. Guadalcanal. New York: Random House, 1990.

 George MacDonald Fraser. Quartered Safe Out Here: A Reflection on the War in Burma. London: HarperCollins, 1992.

 Harry A. Galley. "Howlin' Mad" vs The Army: Conflict in Command Saipan 1944. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1986.

       . Peleliu 1944. Baltimore, MD: Nautical & Aviation Press, 1983.

 Samuel B. Griffith II. The Battle For Guadalcanal. Baltimore, MD: Nautical & Aviation, 1963.

 R. Gagill Hall. Lightning Over Bougainville: The Yamamoto Mission Reconsidered. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1991.

John Hersey. Into The Valley: A Skirmish Of The Marines. NewYork: Schocken, 1942, 1970, 1989.

 Lynn Kessler, ed. Never in Doubt: Remembering Iwo Jima. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999.

 Walter Kruger. From Down Under to Nippon: The Story of The Sixth Army In World War II. Nashville, TN: Battery Classics, 1953.

 John B. Lundstrom. The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute  Press, 1984.

 Lida Mayo. Bloody Buna. New York: Doubleday, 1974.

 Herbert Christian Merillat. Guadalcanal Remembered. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982.

 John Miller. Guadalcanal: The First Offensive. Washington, DC: GPO, 1949.

       . Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul. Washington, DC: GPO, 1959.

 Samuel Milner. Victory In Papua. Washington, DC: GPO, 1957.

 Eric Morris. Corregidor: The End of The Line. New York: Stein and Day, 1981.

Louis Morton. The Fall of The Philippines. Washington, DC: GPO,1953. 

      . Stategy And Command: The First Two Years. Washington, DC: GPO, 1962. 

Richard F. Newcomb. Iwo Jima. New York: Bantam, 1965. 

Bernard Norling. The Intrepid Guerrillas of North Luzon. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1999.

 Charlton Ogburn. The Marauders. New York: Morrow, 1956.

 Gordon W. Prange. Miracle At Midway. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

 Charles F. Romanus and Riley Sunderland. Stilwell's Mission to China. Washington, DC: GPO, 1953.

      . Stilwell's Command Problems. Washington, DC: GPO, 1956.

     . Time Runs Out In CBI. Washington, DC: GPO, 1959.

 Bill D. Ross. Peleliu: Tragic Triumph: The Untold Story of the Pacific War's Forgotten Battle. New York: Random House,1991.

      . Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor. New York: Random House, 1985. 

 Duane Schutz. The Maverick War: Chennault And The Flying Tigers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

 Robert Sherrod. Tarawa: The Story of a Battle. Fredericksburg, TX: Admiral Nimitz Foundation, 1944.

 Hampton Sides. Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic             Mission. Garden City: Doubleday, 2001.

E. B. Sledge. With The Old Breed, at Peleliu And Okinawa. Novato: Presidio Press, 1981.

George W. Smith. Carlson’s Raid: The Daring Marine Assault on Makin. Novato: Presidio            Press, 2001.

 Robert Ross Smith. The Approach to The Philippines. Washington, DC: GPO, 1953.

       . Triumph in The Philippines. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.

 Stephen R. Taaffe. MacArthur’s Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign. Lawerence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Richard Tregaskis. Gaudalcanal Diary. New York: Random House,1943.

John W. Whitman. Bataan, Our Last Ditch: The Bataan Campaign. NewYork: Hippocrene, 1990.

 

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