[READING-LIST] End of the war in the Pacific.

(I'm doing this elsewhere, I'll update this thread as I go along.


B
Before The Bomb : How America Approached the End of the Pacific War, John Chappell, The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
C
Codename Downfall : the secret plan to invade Japan, Thomas B Allen; Norman Polmar, London Headline 1996
D
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, Gar Alperovitz, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010.
Downfall : the end of the Imperial Japanese Empire, Richard B Frank, Penguin Books, 2001.
I
The invasion of Japan : alternative to the bomb, John Ray Skates, University of South Carolina Press, 2000.
J
Japan subdued : the Atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific, Herbert Feis, Princeton Univ. Press, 1968.
Japan's decision to surrender, Robert J Butow, Stanford Univ. Press, 1967.
Japan's longest day = 日本のいちばん長い日 / (Japan's longest day = nihon no ichiban nagai hi), compiled by the Pacific War Research Society. (Taiheiyō Senshi Kenkyūkai.)
M
The most controversial decision : Truman, the atomic bombs, and the defeat of Japan, Wilson D Miscamble, Cambridge University Press 2011
T
Truman and the Hiroshima cult, Robert P Newman, Michigan State University Press, 1995.
W
Weapons for victory : the Hiroshima decision, Robert James Maddox, University of Missouri Press, 2004.
Why the Japanese lost : the red sun's setting, Bryan Perrett, Pen & Sword Military, 2014, cop. 2014.

 

Are you looking for additions? I might have a couple.

 

Always. The point is to get a comprehensive list on the topic.

When I have everything on this topic (that I have on hand) included I still have Pearl Harbor and the US run-up to war lists to do. Then "General Reading". I'm a bit slowed down by the fact that I can only carry one book at a time.

 

Yeah, on the table here, for the second round. Also "Day of the Bomb" and Paul Ham's accusatory "Hiroshima Nagasaki".

 

Try these:
The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific by William Craig
Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D.M. Giangreco
Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima by Thomas Gordon

 

I don't have the third one, thanks!

 

Got it on Kindle. :tup:

 

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