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Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

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Pacific War (1941–1945), general

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Charlton, Peter (1983). The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944–45. South Melbourne: The MacMillan Company of Australia.
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Myers, Michael (2015). The Pacific War and Contingent Victory: Why Japanese Defeat Was Not Inevitable. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700620883.
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Paine, Sarah C. M. (2012). The Wars for Asia 1911–1949. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Spector, Ronald (1985). Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0394741017.
Thompson, Robert S. (2001). Empires on the Pacific: World War II and the Struggle for the Mastery of Asia. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465085750.
Thorne, Christopher (1986). The Far Eastern War: States and Societies, 1941–45. London: Unwin.
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Willmott, H. P. (1999). The Second World War in the Far East. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0304361274.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)

Beekman, Allan (1992). Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: Heritage Press.
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Hotta, Eri (2013). Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Prange, Gordon W. (1981). At Dawn We Slept. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0070506695.
Prange, Gordon W. (1988). Dec. 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. McGraw-Hill.
Rosenberg, Emily S. (2005). A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
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Zimm, Alan D. (2011). Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions. Philadelphia and Newbury: Casemate Publishers.

Battle of Hong Kong (1941)

Lai, Benjamin (2014). Hong Kong 1941–45: First Strike in the Pacific War. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1782002697.

Japanese Invasion of Thailand (1941)

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Malayan campaign (1941–1942)

Allen, Louis (1977). Singapore 1941–1942. Wilmington: University of Delaware Press.

1st Philippines campaign (1941–1942)

Conroy, Robert (1969). The Battle of Bataan: America's greatest defeat. New York: Macmillan.
Falk, Stanley L. (1962). Bataan: The March of Death. New York: Norton.
Ind, Allison (1944). Bataan, the Judgment Seat: The Saga of the Philippine Command of the U.S. Army Air Force, May 1941 to May 1942. New York: Macmillan.

Burma campaign (1941–1945)

Allen, Louis (1973). Sittang, the Last Battle: The End of the Japanese in Burma, July–August 1945. London: Macdonald.
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Anders, Leslie (1965). The Ledo Road: General Joseph W. Stilwell's Highway to China. Norman: Oklahoma University Press.
Baker, Alan (1972). Merrill's Marauders. New York: Ballantine.
Carew, Tim (1969). The Longest Retreat: The Burma Campaign, 1942. London: Hamilton.
Chaphekar, Shankarrao G. (1955). A Brief Study of the Burma Campaign, 1943–45. Poona (India): Maharashta Militarisation Board.
Diamond, Jon (2016). Burma Road 1943–1944: Stilwell’s Assault on Myitkyina. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1472811264.

Dutch East Indies campaign (1941–1942)

Lohnstein, Marc (2021). The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941–42: Japan's Quest for Oil. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1472843548.

Battle of the Coral Sea (1942)

Johnston, Stanley (1942). Queen of the Flat Tops: The U.S.S. Lexington and the Coral Sea Battle. New York: Dutton.

New Guinea campaign (1942–1945)

Gamble, Bruce (2010). Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942–April 1943. New York: Zenith Press.

Aleutian islands campaign (1942–1943)

Ford, Corey (1943). Short Cut to Tokyo: The Battle for the Aleutians. New York: Scriber.
Garfield, Brian W. (1969). The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. New York: Doubleday.
Griffin, D. F. (1944). First steps to Tokyo: the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Aleutians. New York: Dent.
Handleman, Howard (1943). Bridge to Victory: The Story of the Reconquest of the Aleutians. New York: Random House.
Herder, Brian Lane (2019). The Aleutians 1942–43: Struggle for the North Pacific. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1472832559.
Paneth, Philip (1943). Alaskan Backdoor to Japan. London: Alliance.
U.S. War Department (1944). The Capture of Attu. Washington DC: Infantry Journal Press.

Battle of Midway (1942)

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Guadalcanal campaign (1942–1943)

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Coggins, Jack (1972). The Campaign for Guadalcanal: A Battle that made History. New York: Doubleday.
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Frank, Richard B. (1990). Guadalcanal. New York: Penguin Books.
Gallant, Thomas G. (1963). On Valor’s Side. New York: Doubleday.
George, John B. (1947). Shots fired in Anger: a Rifleman’s Eye View of the Activities on the Island of Guadalcanal in the Solomons, during the Elimination of the Japanese Forces there. Georgetown, SC: Small Arms.
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Hornfischer, James D. (2011). Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal. New York: Bantam.
Hoyt, Edwin P. (1982). Guadalcanal. New York: Stein & Day.
Kent, Graeme (1971). Guadalcanal: Island Ordeal. New York: Ballantine.
Leckie, Robert (1965). Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal – The Turning Point of the War. New York: Doubleday.
Lee, Robert E. (1981). Victory at Guadalcanal. Novato, CA: Presidio.
Merillat, Herbert C.; et al. (Herbert L. Merillat) (1979) [1944]. Island: a History of the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal, Aug 7 – Dec 9, 1942. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Merillat, Herbert C. (1979). Guadalcanal Remembered. New York: Zenger.
Miller, John (1949). Guadalcanal: The First Offensive. Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Army.
Miller, Thomas G. (1969). The Cactus Air Force. New York: Harper.
Mueller, Joseph N. (1992). Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines strike back. Osprey Military. ISBN 978-1855322530.
Newcomb, Richard F. (1961). Savo: The Incredible Naval Debacle off Guadalcanal. New York: Holt.
Stewart, Adrian (1985). Guadalcanal: World War II's fiercest naval campaign. London: Kimber.
Stille, Mark (2013). The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942: Clash for Supremacy in the Pacific. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1780961552.
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Tanaka, Raizō (1956). Japan's losing struggle for Guadalcanal. Annapolis (MD/USA): Naval Institute.
Tregaskis, Richard (1943). Guadalcanal Diary. New York: Random House.
Werstein, Irving (1963). Guadalcanal. New York: Crowell.
Zimmerman, John L., ed. (1949). The Guadalcanal Campaign: August 1942 to February 1943. Washington DC: U.S. Marine Corps.

Battle of the Bismarck Sea (1943)

Graham, Burton (1944). None shall survive: the graphic story of the annihilation of the Japanese armada in the Bismarck Sea Battle. Sydney: Johnston.

Central Pacific Campaign (1943-1945)

Albee, Parker Bishop Jr.; Freeman, Keller Cushing (1995). Shadow of Suribachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.

Japanese Invasion of India (1944)

Lyman, Robert (2011). Japan's Last Bid for Victory: The Invasion of India, 1944. Praetorian Press.

2nd Philippines campaign (1944–1945)

Breuer, William B. (1986). Retaking The Philippines: America's Return to Corregidor & Bataan, 1944–1945. St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0312678029.
Chun, Clayton (2015). Leyte 1944: Return to the Philippines. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1472806901.
Field, James A. (1947). The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation. Princeton University Press.
Friedman, Kenneth (2001). Afternoon of the Rising Sun: The Battle of Leyte Gulf. Presidio Press. ISBN 0891417567.
Hoyt, Edwin P. (2003). The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Lyons Press. ISBN 1585746436.
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958). Leyte: June 1944 – January 1945. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. XII. Little, Brown and Company.
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Smith, Robert Ross (2005). Triumph in the Philippines: The War in the Pacific. University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 1410224953.
Vego, Milan N. (2006). Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied And Japanese Plans, Preparations, And Execution. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557508852.
Willmott, H. P. (2005). The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253345286.

Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 1944)

Stille, Mark (2021). Leyte Gulf 1944 (1): The Battles of the Sibuyan Sea and Samar. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1472842794.
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Battle of Okinawa (1945)

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Spurr, Russell (1981). A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945. New York: Newmarket Press.

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)

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Bathchelder, Robert C. (1962). The Irreversible Decision. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Chinnock, Frank W. (1969). Nagasaki: The Forgotten Bomb. Cleveland: World.
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Groueff, Stéphane (1967). Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb. London: Collins.
Groves, Leslie R. (1962). Now it can be told: The Story of the Manhattan Project. New York: Harper.
Hersey, John (1946). Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Miscamble, Wilson D. (2011). The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Pellegrino, Charles R. (2010). The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
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Rotter, Andrew J. (2008). Hiroshima: The World's Bomb. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Weller, George; Weller, Anthony, eds. (2006). First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. New York: Crown.
Yanagida, Kunio (1975). A Blank in the Weather Map. Tokyo: Shinchosha.
Yass, Marion (1971). Hiroshima. London: Wayland.

Soviet–Japanese War

Glantz, David M. (2003). The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: August Storm. Routledge.