Appendix II: Bibliography


Abbazia, Patrick, Mr. Roosevelt's Navy: The Private War of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, 1939-1942 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1975)

Adamson, Hans C., and George F. Kosco, Halsey's Typhoons, a Firsthand Account of How Two Typhoons, More Powerful Than the Japanese, Dealt Death and Destruction to Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet (New York: Crown, 1967)

Alden, John D, U.S. Submarine Attacks During World War II (Including Allied Submarine Attacks in the Pacific Theater) (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989)

Bailey, Thomas A. and Ryan, Paul B, Hitler vs. Roosevelt (New York: The Free Press, 1979)

Ballantine, Duncan S, U.S. Naval Logistics in the Second World War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947)

Barbey, Daniel E., MacArthur's Amphibious Navy: Seventh Amphibious Force Operations, 1943-1945 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1969)

Beach, Edward L., Submarine! (New York: Henry Holt, 1952)

Belote, James H., and William M. Belote, Titans of the Seas: The Development and Operations of Japanese and American Carrier Task Forces during World War II (New York: Harper and Row, 1975)

Blair, Clay Jr, Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan (Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1975)

Borg, Dorothy, The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933-1938: From the Manchurian Incident Through the Initial Stage of the Undeclared Sino-Japanese War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964)

--------, and Shumpei Okamoto, eds, Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations, 1931-1941, Studies of the East Asian Institute (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973)

Boyd, Carl, and Akihiko Yoshida, The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995)

Bragadin, Marc' Antonio, The Italian Navy in World War II (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1957

Browning, Robert G., Jr., U.S. Merchant Vessel War Causalties of World War II (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996)

Buell, Thomas B, Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980)

--------, The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1974)

Bulkley, Robert J, At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1962)

Calhoun, C. Raymond, Typhoon, The Other Enemy: The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1981)

Carter, Worral Reed, Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil: The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in the Pacific During World War II (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1953)

-------- and Elmer E. Duvall, Ships, Salvage, and Sinews of War: The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in Atlantic and Mediterranean Waters During World War II (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1954)

Connery, Robert H, The Navy and Industrial Mobilization in World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951)

Cook, Charles, The Battle of Cape Esperance: Strategic Encounter at Guadalcanal (New York: Crowell, 1968)

Costello, John, The Pacific War (New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc., 1981)

Cressman, Robert J., et al, A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway, 4-6 June 1942 (Missoula, Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1991)

--------, and J. Michael Wenger, Steady Nerves and Stout Hearts: The USS Enterprise (CV-6) Air Group and Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 (Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1990)

--------, "A Magnificent Fight": The Battle for Wake Island (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995)

Cunningham, Winfield S, Wake Island Command (Boston: Little, Brown)

Dull, Paul S, A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974)

Dyer, George Carroll, The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner ((2 vols) Washington: Government Printing Office, 1972)

Eisenhower, John S. D, Allies: Pearl Harbor to D-Day (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1982)

Feis, Herbert, The Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War Between the United States and Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950)

Frank, Richard, B, Guadalcanal (New York: Random House, 1990)

Friedlander, Saul, Prelude to Downfall: Hitler and the United States, 1939-41 (New York, Alfred Knopf, 1967)

Fuchida, Mitsuo, and Okumiya, Masatake, (Clarke Kawakami and Roger Pineau, eds.), Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1955)

Gannon, Michael, Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II (New York: Harper and Row, 1990)

Garfield, Brian W, The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians (Garden City: Doubleday, 1969)

Gilbert, Martin, The Second World War: A Complete History (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989)

Goldstein, Donald M., Katherine V. Dillon and J. Michael Wenger, The Way It Was: Pearl Harbor--------The Original Photographs (Washington: Brassey's, 1991)

Griffith, Samuel B, The Battle for Guadalcanal (New York: Lippincott, 1963)

Hammel, Eric, Guadalcanal: Starvation Island (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1987)

--------, Guadalcanal: The Carrier Battles (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1987)

--------, Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988. Hart, B. H. Liddell, History of the Second World War (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971)

Hayes, Grace P, The History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in World War II: The War Against Japan (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1982)

Holmes, Wilfred J, Undersea Victory: The Influence of Submarine Operations on the War in the Pacific (Garden City: Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1966)

--------, Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979)

Hough, Frank O, The Island War (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1947)

Hoyt, Edwin, P., How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1970)

Hughes, Terry, and Costello, John, The Battle of the Atlantic (New York: The Dial Press, 1977)

Isely, Jeter A., and Crowl, Philip A, The U.S. Marines and Amphibious War: Its Theory and Its Practice in the Pacific (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951)

Jentschura, Hansgeorg, Dieter Jung and Peter Mickel, Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1977)

Johnson, Ellis A., and David A. Katcher, Mines Against Japan (Silver Spring: Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1973)

Kahn, David, Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991)

Keegan, John, The Second World War (New York: Viking Books, 1990)

--------, (ed.), The Times Atlas of the Second World War (New York: Harper & Row, 1989)

King, Ernest J, U.S. Navy at War, 1941-45: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (Washington: United States Navy Department, 1946)

--------, and Walter M. Whitehill, Fleet Admiral King, a Naval Record (New York: Norton, 1952)

Koginos, Manny T, The Panay Incident: Prelude to Pearl Harbor (Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Studies, 1967)

Lane, Frederick C., et al, Ships for Victory: A History of Shipbuilding Under the United States Maritime Commission in World War II, United States Government Historical Reports on War Administration (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1951)

Langer, William L., and Gleason, S. Everett, The Undeclared War, 1940-41 (New York: Harper & Row, 1953)

Leahy, William D, I Was There: The Personal Story of the Chief of Staff to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, Based on His Notes and Diaries Made at the Time (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950)

Leutze, James R, Bargaining for Supremacy: Anglo-American Naval Collaboration, 1937-1941 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977)

--------, A Different Kind of Victory: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1981)

Lewin, Ronald, The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers, and the Defeat of Japan (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982)

Lockwood, Charles A, Sink 'Em All: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific (New York: Dutton, 1951)

--------, and Hans C. Adamson, Battles of the Philippine Sea (New York: Crowell, 1967)

Lord, Walter, Day of Infamy (New York: Holt, 1957)

--------, Incredible Victory (New York: Harper and Row, 1967)

--------, Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers in the Solomons (New York: Viking Press, 1977)

Lorelli, John A, The Battle of the Komandorski Islands, March 1943 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984)

Loxton, Bruce, with Chris Coulthard-Clark, The Shame of Savo: Anatomy of a Naval Disaster (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1994)

Lundstrom, John B, The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941 - June 1942 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1976)

--------, The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984)

--------, The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993)

Marder, Arthur J, Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1936-1945, Vol. I, Strategic Illusions, 1936-1941 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981)

--------, Mark Jacobsen, and John Horsfield, Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1936- 1945, Vol. II, The Pacific War, 1942-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990)

Miles, Milton E, A Different Kind of War: The Little-Known Story of the Combined Guerrilla Forces Created in China by the U.S. Navy and the Chinese During World War II (Garden City: Doubleday, 1967)

Miller, Edward S, War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1991)

Moore, Arthur R, "A Careless Word...a Needless Sinking" : A History of the Staggering Losses Suffered by the U.S. Merchant Marine, Both in Ships and Personnel, During World War II. Revised Edition, with addendum (Kings Point: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1985)

Morison, Samuel Eliot, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (15 vols, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1962)

Newcomb, Richard F, Iwo Jima (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965)

Nichols, Charles S., and Shaw, Henry I., Jr, Okinawa: Victory in the Pacific (Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, Co., 1955)

O'Connor, Raymond G, Perilous Equilibrium: The Failure of the Second London Naval Conference and the Onset of World War II (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974)

Oosten, F. C. van, The Battle of the Java Sea (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1976)

Parillo, Mark P, The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993)

Parker, Frederick D., A Priceless Advantage: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the Aleutians (Fort George G. Meade: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic History, 1993)

Prange, Gordon, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, Miracle at Midway (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1982)

--------, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1981)

--------, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, December 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1987)

--------, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1986)

Reynolds, Clark G, The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy (Huntington: Robert E. Krieger, 1978)

Richardson, James O, On the Treadmill to Pearl Harbor: The Memoirs of Admiral James O. Richardson, USN (Retired) as told to Vice Admiral George C. Dyer, USN (Retired) (Washington: Naval History Division, 1973)

Rohwer, Jurgen, Axis Submarine Successes, 1939-1945 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983)

--------, The Critical Convoy Battles of March 1943: The Battle for HX.229/SC.122 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1977)

Roscoe, Theodore, United States Destroyer Operations in World War II (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1953)

--------, United States Submarine Operations in World War II (Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1949)

Roskill, Stephen W, Naval Policy Between the Wars (2 Vols, New York: Walker, 1968)

Ross, Bill D., Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1985)

Rowland, Buford, and William Boyd, U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance in World War II (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1953)

Sadkovich, James J., The Italian Navy in World War II (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994)

Smith, William W, Midway: Turning Point of the Pacific (New York: Crowell, 1966)

Spector, Ronald, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan (New York: The Free Press, 1985)

Stephen, John J, Hawaii Under the Rising Sun: Japan's Plans for Conquest After Pearl Harbor (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984)

Stillwell, Paul, ed, Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! Recollections of a Day of Infamy (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1981)

Thomas, David A, Battle of the Java Sea (London: Deutsch, 1968)

Thorne, Christopher, Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain and the War Against Japan, 1941-45 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978)

Toland, John, But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor (New York: Random House, 1961)

--------, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (New York: Random House, 1970)

U.S. Army, Far East Command, The Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II: A Graphic Presentation of the Japanese Naval Organization and List of Combatant and Non-Combatant Vessels Lost or Damaged in the War, Japanese Operational Monograph Series, No. 116 (Tokyo: Military History Section, Special Staff, General Headquarters, Far East Command, 1952)

Utley, Jonathan G, Going to War with Japan, 1937-1941 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985)

van Oosten, F.C, The Battle of the Java Sea (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1976)

Vlahos, Michael, The Blue Sword: The Naval War College and the American Mission, 1919-1941 (Newport: Naval War College Press, 1980)

Wallin, Homer N, Pearl Harbor: How, Why, Fleet Salvage and Appraisal (Washington: Naval History Division, 1968)

Warner, Denis A., and Peggy Warner, Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle for Savo Island (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1992)

Weir, Gary E, Building American Submarines, 1914-1940 (Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1991)

--------, Forged in War: The Naval-Industrial Complex and American Submarine Construction, 1940-1961 (Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1993)

Willmott, H. P, The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War (New York: Free Press, 1990)

--------, The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983)

--------, Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1982)

Y'Blood, William T, The Little Giants: U.S. Escort Carriers Against Japan (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987)

--------, Red Sun Setting: The Battle of the Philippine Sea (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1981.


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