Flyboys:
A True Story of Courage
by James Bradley
Book Description: Flyboys is the true story of young American
airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima. Eight of these young men were
captured by Japanese troops and taken prisoner. Another was rescued by
an American submarine and went on to become president. The reality of what
happened to the eight prisoners has remained a secret for almost 60 years.
After the war, the American and Japanese governments conspired to cover
up the shocking truth. Not even the families of the airmen were informed
what had happened to their sons. It has remained a mystery—until now. Critics
called James Bradley's last book "the best book on battle ever written."
Flyboys is even better: more ambitious, more powerful, and more moving.
On the island of Chichi Jima those young men would face the ultimate test.
Their story—a tale of courage and daring, of war and of death, of men and
of hope—will make you proud, and it will break your heart.
Hardcover from Little Brown & Company
Book Published: 30 September, 2003 |
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Afternoon
of the Rising Sun : The Battle of Leyte Gulf
by Kenneth I. Friedman
(Hardcover - November 2001)
Angels Twenty : A Young American Flier a Long Way from Home
by Edwards Park
Listed under New Guinea Campaigns
Air Raid-Pearl Harbor! : The Story of December 7, 1941
by Theodore Taylor
Listed under Pearl Harbor
Alone on Guadalcanal : A Coastwatcher's Story
by Martin Clemens, Allan R. Millett (Introduction)
Superb account of the early days of an Australian coastwatcher in the
Solomon Islands during WWII who joined forces with the US Marines.
Listed under Guadalcanal
At Dawn We Slept : The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
by Gordon William Prange
Listed under Pearl Harbor
The Atomic Bomb Suppressed : American Censorship in Occupied Japan
by Monica Braw - Listed under Atomic Bomb
Baa Baa Black Sheep
by Gregory Boyington
Listed under Flying Tigers
The
Battle for Okinawa
by Hiromichi Yahara
A first-hand account of one of the bloodiest encounters in the war
of the Pacific, written by the Japanese strategist who designed and carried
out the campaign. Editor Frank Gibney's unique perspective of having been
an officer in Okinawa, who interrogated Yahara following his capture, adds
a fascinating dimension to the account. Ingram
Paperback - 245 pages 1 edition (March 7, 1997)
John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471180807
A
Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945
by Paul S. Dull
Hardcover - 402 pages (February 1978)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870210971
Before
the Bomb : How America Approached the End of the Pacific War
by John D. Chappell
Hardcover - 272 pages (December 1996)
Univ Pr of Kentucky; ISBN: 0813119871
Beyond Courage : One Regiment Against Japan, 1941-1945
by Dorothy Cave
Listed under Prisoners of War
Bougainville, 1943-1945 : The Forgotten Campaign
by Harry A. Gailey
Listed under New Guinea Campaigns
Britain,
Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War
by Nicholas Tarling
Hardcover - 434 pages (June 1996)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Short); ISBN: 0521553466
British policy in Southeast Asia in the early years of World War II.
With its military strength directed against Germany, Britain drew on diplomatic
resources to maintain its power in the area and to limit the Japanese threat.
The book focuses on Britain's relations with America, Dutch India, the
Philippines, French Indo-China and Thailand. Amazon.com
Carrier Warfare in the Pacific : An Oral History Collection
(Smithsonian History of Aviation)
by E.T. Wooldridge (Editor), John B. Connally
Listed under Aircraft Carriers
Combat
Surgeon: On Iwo With the 27th Marines
James S. Vedder
Paperback / Published 1998
Crommelin's Thunderbirds : Air Group 12 Strikes the Heart of Japan
Roy W. Bruce, et al
Listed under US Air Force
Corregidor
: The Rock Force Assault, 1945
by E. M. Flanagan
Paperback - 320 pages (April 1998)
Presidio Pr; ISBN: 0891416595
Day of Infamy
by Walter Lord
Listed under Pearl Harbor
The Day Man Lost Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
by Pacific War Research Society
Listed under Atomic Bomb
Devil Boats : The PT War Against Japan
by William B. Breuer
Listed under PT Boats
The
Devil's Anvil
by James H. Hallas
The Devil's Anvil tells the history of the battle for the island of
Peleliu in the Western Caroline Islands--a battle that was supposed to
take two days and instead took two months.
Hardcover - 320 pages (May 1994)
Praeger Pub Text; ISBN: 0275946460
Double-Edged
Secrets : U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World
War II (Bluejacket Books)
by W. J. Holmes
Paperback - 256 pages (September 1998)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557503249
Eagle
Against the Sun : The American War With Japan
by Ronald H. Spector
Drawing on declassified intelligence files, British and U.S. archival
material, Japanese documents and memoirs of politicians and military men,
Spector reassesses U.S. and Japanese strategy of the 44 month struggle
of the American war with Japan
Paperback - 589 pages (November 1985)
Random House
(Paper); ISBN: 0394741013
Ernie
Pyle's War : America's Eyewitness to World War II
(Modern War Studies)
by James Tobin
The story of a WW2 correspondent in the Pacific Theater.
Paperback - 312 pages (June 1998)
Univ Pr of Kansas; ISBN: 0700608974
Every
Other Day : Letters from the Pacific
by George Blanchard Lucas
Hardcover (November 1995)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557505284
First
24 Hours of War in the Pacific
by Donald J. Young
Hardcover (June 1998)
Burd Street Pr; ISBN: 1572490799
The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign : Naval Fighter Combat
from August to November 1942
by John B. Lundstrom
Listed under New Guinea Campaigns
The
First Team : Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway
by John B. Lundstrom
Hardcover - 547 pages (July 1984)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870211897
The
Fleet the Gods Forgot : The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II
(Bluejacket Books)
by W. G. Winslow
Stories of the crews and ships of the Phillipines fleet immediately
after Pearl Harbour, detailing the many losses and few victories. Dropbears.com
Paperback Reprint edition (April 1994)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 155750928X
Ghost
of War : The Sinking of the Awa Maru and Japanese-American Relations, 1945-1995
Roger Dingman
Hardcover / Published 1997
The accidental sinking of a Japanese merchant ship sailing under safe
passage negotiated clandestinely by the U.S. and Japan during the last
part of WWII.
A Glorious Page in Our History : The Battle of Midway, 4-6 June,
1942
by Robert J. Cressman, Steve Ewing
Listed under Battle of Midway
Good
Night Officially : The Pacific War Letters of a Destroyer Sailor : The
Letters of Yeoman James Orvill Raines (Reville Book)
by James Orvill Raines, William M. McBride (Editor)
Orvill Raines served aboard the Fletcher-class destroyer USS
Howorth
from early 1944 until his death in action when his ship was hit by a Japanese
suicide plane off Okinawa in 1945. Booklist
Texas A&M University Press
Paperback - 344 pages 2nd Rep edition (September 2001)
Graveyards
of the Pacific : From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Island
by Robert D. Ballard, Michael Hamilton Morgan (Contributor)
National Geographic Society
Hardcover - 224 pages (June 2001)
Guadalcanal : Decision at Sea : The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal,
Nov. 13-15, 1942
by Eric M. Hammel
Listed under New Guinea Campaigns
Hiroshima
John Hersey
Listed under Hiroshima
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary
Story of Its Survivors
by Doug Stanton
Listed under U.S.S. Indianapolis
In My Sights : The Memoir of a P-40 Ace
by James B. Morehead
Listed under Aviation History
Incredible Victory (Classics of War)
by Walter Lord
Battle of Midway, June 1942.
Listed under Battle of Midway
Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937-45 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces,
22)
by Henry Sakaida
Listed under Japanese Aircraft WWII
Infamy : Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
by John Toland
Listed under Pearl Harbor
Into
the Rising Sun : In Their Own Words, World War II 's Pacific Veterans Reveal
the Heart of Combat
by Patrick K. O'Donnell
The author of Beyond Valor offers a new collection of oral histories
from veterans of the Second World War, this time from the Pacific theater.
In an introduction, Patrick K. O'Donnell warns, "oral histories are perhaps
the best means available to reveal the horrors and pathos of the foxhole."
Indeed, several of the accounts he compiles on these pages are grisly,
such as the story of Tom Lyons, stabbed in the neck by a Japanese soldier
on Guadalcanal. Lyons survived, but only after being heaped on top of a
pile of dead bodies. Rumors of his death reached home: "My mother got a
check from my insurance company saying I was dead the same day she got
a letter from me written by a nurse at a hospital in New Zealand." Combat
stories abound, including a firsthand account of Gunnery Sergeant William
G. Walsh jumping on a grenade to protect his squad on Iwo Jima, a feat
for which he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
O'Donnell organizes his material chronologically and introduces each chapter
to help readers understand the context of the soldiers' individual narratives.
For those who enjoy real-life war stories told from the perspective of
the men who were there, Into the Rising Sun is hard to beat. John Miller
- Amazon.com
Hardcover - 384 pages (March 2002)
Free Press; ISBN: 0743214803 |
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Into
the Shadows Furious
by Brian Altobello
The struggle to take the Japanese airbase at Munda on New Georgia after
Guadalcanal.
Hardcover - 352 pages 1 edition (December 15, 2000)
Presidio Pr; ISBN: 0891417176
Iwo Jima 1945 : Pacific Theatre (Campaign, 81)
by Derek Wright
Listed under Iwo Jima
Japan
at War : An Oral History
by Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook (Contributor)
Paperback Reprint edition (October 1993)
New Press; ISBN: 1565840399 |
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Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-45 (Aircraft of the Aces , No
13)
by Henry Sakaida
Listed under Aircraft of the Aces
MacArthur's Jungle War : The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (Modern
War Studies)
by Stephen R. Taaffe
Listed Under General Douglas MacArthur
Marine
Tank Battles in the Pacific
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific is a gripping narrative that combines
exhaustive detail on Marine armor and combat with moving eyewitness accounts,
never before published, of what it was actually like to be a Marine tanker
in action in the Pacific - awe inspiring bravery in the face of a skilled
and fanatic foe. Amazon.com
Hardcover: 356 pages
Da Capo Press; ISBN: 1580970508; (January 15, 2001)
Midway : The Battle That Doomed Japan : The Japanese Navy's Story
by Mitsuo Fuchida, Masatake Okumiya
Listed under Battle of Midway
Munda
Trail : The New Georgia Campaign
by Eric M. Hammel
A well written account of the Solomon Islands campaign.
Paperback - 292 pages (May 1999)
Pacifica Pr; ISBN: 093555338X
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal : Night Action, 13 November 1942
by James W. Grace
Listed under New Guinea Campaigns
Nimitz
A biography by Elmer Belmont Potter
Listed under American Commanders
of WWII
New Guinea and the Marianas : March 1944-August 1944
(History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume
8)
Listed under New Guinea Campaigns
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
Listed under Military Fiction
The
Pilots
by James Spencer
(Hardcover - February 2003)
Okinawa
: The Last Battle of World War II
by Robert Leckie
Paperback Reprint edition (July 1996)
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 0140173897
Okinawa
1945: The Last Battle (Campaign,
96)
by Gordon Rottman, Howard Gerrard (Illustrator)
(Paperback - May 2002)
Once
They Were Eagles : The Men of the Black Sheep Squadron
by Frank E. Walton
Paperback Reprint edition (July 1996)
Univ Pr of Kentucky; ISBN: 0813108756
Pacific
War, Nineteen Thirty-One to Nineteen Forty-Five : a Critical Perspective
on Japan's Role in World War II
by Saburo Ienaga, Frank Baldwin (Translator)
Paperback (August 1979)
Random House
(Paper); ISBN: 0394734963
Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy
by Ray Parkin
An extraordinary work by an Australian who endured the sinking of his
ship, HMAS Perth, after an epic battle against impossible odds. He then
spent years as a POW on the Burma Railway and then in Japan working the
mines until the dropping of the atomic bomb. The work comprises his three
books: Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom. Dropbears.com
Listed under Australia at War
The
Rescue: A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II
by Steven Trent Smith
In 1944, the US submarine Crevalle picked up 40 from a small island
in the Philipines including 21 women, 12 children, and seven escaped American
POWs. It also picked up the battle plans of a Japanese admiral whose plane
had come down nearby.
John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover - 336 pages (April 13, 2001)
The Ship That Held the Line : The U.S.S. Hornet and the First Year
of the Pacific War
by Lisle Abbott Rose
Listed under Aircraft Carriers
South Pacific Destroyer : The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island
to Vella Gulf
by Russell Sydnor Crenshaw
Listed under New Guinea Campaigns
Storm
Landings : Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific
by Joseph H. Alexander, Carl E. Mundy Jr
This is the story of seven now-epic long-range assaults executed against
murderous enemy fire at Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Peleliu, Iwo Jima,
and Okinawa - and a potential eighth, Kyushu.
Hardcover - 216 pages (May 1997)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557500320 |
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Tarawa
1943 (Campaign Series, 77)
by Derek Wright
In 1943 the island of Beito in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the
elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral
Shibasaki, had boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a
million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the
Marines of the 2nd Division would overcome serious errors of planning to
fight a 76-hour battle of unprecedented savagery. Amazon.com
Paperback (October 2000)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
by Captain Ted W. Lawson
Listed under The Doolittle Raid
Touched
With Fire : The Land War in the South Pacific
by Eric Bergerud
Paperback - 608 pages Reprint edition (July 1997)
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 0140246967
Utmost
Savagery : The Three Days of Tarawa
by Joseph H., Col. Alexander
On November 20, l943, in the first trial by fire of America's fledgling
amphibious assault doctrine, five thousand men stormed the beaches of Tarawa,
a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress barely the size of the
Pentagon parking lots (three-hundred acres!). Before the first day ended,
one third of the Marines who had crossed Tarawa's deadly reef under murderous
fire were killed, wounded, or missing. In three days of fighting, four
Americans would win the Medal of Honor. And six-thousand combatants would
die.
Now, Col. Joseph Alexander, a combat Marine himself, presents the full
story of Tarawa in all its horror and glory: the extreme risks, the horrific
combat, and the heroic breakthroughs. Based on exhaustive research, never-before-published
accounts from Marine survivors, and new evidence from Japanese sources,
Colonel Alexander captures the grit, guts, and relentless courage of United
States Marines overcoming outrageous odds to deliver victory for their
country.
"Without a doubt the best narrative of the struggle ever produced."
--Richard B. Frank, Author of Guadalcanal
Paperback - 326 pages Reprint edition
(February 1997)
Ivy Books; ISBN: 0804115591
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Victory
in the Pacific 1945 (History of United States Naval Operations in World
War II, Vol.14)
by Samuel Eliot Morison
(Hardcover - May 2001)
The Sea Hawks : With the PT Boats at War
by Edgar D. Hoagland
Listed under PT Boats
War
Without Mercy
John Dower
This book draws on American, English and Japanese songs, cartoons,
propaganda films, secret reports and official documents to show exactly
what role racism played in the Pacific war.
Paperback / Published 1987 |
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The
War in the Pacific : From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, 1941-1945 (G.I.
Series)
by Jonathan Gawne
Paperback - 72 pages (October 1996)
Greenhill Press; ISBN: 185367253X
With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa
by Eugene B. Sledge
Based on notes he secreted within his Bible, Eugene Sledge has written
an extraordinary account of his combat experiences during the Pacific War.
John Keegan describes this moving book on the American soldier as "one
of the most arresting documents in war literature."
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With
the Fifth Army Air Force: Photos from the Pacific Theater
by James P. Gallagher, Eric Bergerud
(Hardcover - October 2001)
You
Can't Fight Tanks With Bayonets : Psychological Warfare Against the Japanese
Army in the Southwest Pacific
by Allison B. Gilmore
Hardcover - 304 pages (April 1998)
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803221673
Tanks
on the Beaches: Marine Tanker in the Great Pacific War (Texas A&M
University Military History Series, 85.)
by Robert M. Neiman, et al
(Hardcover - March 2003)
Saipan:
Oral Histories of the Pacific War
by Bruce M. Petty (Editor)
(Hardcover - October 2001)
Atlas of the Second World War : Asia and the Pacific
(West Point Military History Series)
by Thomas E. Griess (Editor)
Paperback Spiral edition (January 1986)
Avery Pub Group; ISBN: 0895293048
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by Eric M. Hammel
Paperback Reprint edition (September 1995)
Pocket Books; ISBN: 0671529080
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China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-1941
by Youli Sun
Hardcover - 244 pages (September 1993)
St Martins Pr (Short); ISBN: 0312090102
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Cohassett Beach Chronicles : World War II in the Pacific Northwest
by Kathy Hogan, Lucy Hart (Editor), Klancy De Nevers (Editor)
Hardcover - 256 pages (May 1995)
Oregon State Univ Pr; ISBN: 0870713841
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Goodbye Darkness : A Memoir of the Pacific War
by William Manchester
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Dell Pub Co; ISBN: 0440329078
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My Father's War : A Son's Journey
Peter Richmond
Hardcover / Published 1996
By retracing his father's South Pacific experiences during World War
II, the author seeks an understanding of the man who died when the author
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Our Jungle Road to Tokyo
Robert L.Eichelberger
The story of the U.S. Eighth Army's ground war in the Pacific written
by the Lieutenant-General who commanded and fought with them. It is the
story of a tough and effective combat leader who was not afraid to be within
range of Japanese mortar fire. Sent initially to Australia as I corps commander,
General Eichelberger was given responsibility for the critical Buna front
in late 1942. His successes there eventually earned him promotion to command
of the newly formed Eighth Army. Under his leadership, much of New Guinea
was retaken and most of the southern Philippines was liberated. With victory
assured, General Eichelberger was given command of American and Allied
occupation forces in the Japanese Home Islands. Our Jungle Road to Tokyo
is more than the story of one man's war. It provides a rare look at the
strategy of General MacArthur, the problems of inter-Allied and inter-service
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