Frank has written several books and articles on the Pacific campaign of World War II and Southeast Asia:

• Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (1990)^[2]—Won the General Wallace M. Greene Award from the U.S. Marine Corps^[3]
• Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (1999). ISBN 9780141001463.
• "No Bomb, No End", in What If? 2 (2001).
• "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb", The Weekly Standard (August 8, 2005): p. 20.
• MacArthur (2007). ISBN 9781403976581.
• "George Polk's Real World War II Record", Washington Examiner (February 26, 2007)
• Frank, Richard B. (2020). Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937–May 1942 (First ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9781324002109.^[4]

• Panel discussion on the 132nd Infantry Regiment at Guadalcanal which included Richard B. Frank at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on October 23, 2013
• Appearances on C-SPAN