Short History of World War II - James L. Stokesbury [222]
For the British campaign in Burma there is a short military critique, G. F. Matthews’ The Re-Conquest of Burma, 1943-1945 (Aldershot, 1966), and J. Bagaley’s The Chindit Story (London, 1954). A. F. Campbell wrote The Siege (London, 1956) on Kohima, and on the companion battle, Sir G. C. Evans and Anthony Brett-James covered Imphal (London, 1962). The classic memoir of the campaign is Field Marshal Sir William Slim’s Defeat into Victory (London, 1956).
Virtually all of the island operations have been covered by official histories or monographs, either by the U. S. Army or the Marine Corps. For the general course of these and the development of the operational methods, there are F. O. Hough’s The Island War: The United States Marine Corps in the Pacific (Philadelphia, 1947), and J. A. Isley and P. A. Crowl’s The U. S. Marines and Amphibious War: Its Theory and Practice in the Pacific (Princeton, 1951), the standard study of the Marines’ war. There are also Robert Leckie’s Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan (New York, 1967), E. B. Potter and Admiral C. W. Nimitz’ Triumph in the Pacific (Englewood Cliffs, 1963), and H. M. Smith and P. Finch’s Coral and Brass (New York, 1949).
More specific works are Brian Garfield’s The Thousand Mile War (New York, 1969) on the Aleutians; also R. L. Sherrod’s Tarawa: The Story of a Battle (New York, 1954). On Guadalcanal and the naval battles around it there are S. B. Griffith’s The Battle for Guadalcanal (Philadelphia, 1963), and R. Leckie, Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal, the Turning Point of the War (New York, 1965). Even with a good general coverage, some events have received much more treatment than others. R. L. Eichelberger wrote Our Jungle Road to Tokyo (New York, 1950), but there has been a great deal more on the central Pacific than on the southwest fighting. Clark Reynolds traced the development of the new naval combination in The Fast Carriers (New York, 1968), while J. J. Fahey’s Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945 (Boston, 1963), provides the memoir of a young participant in the war. Japanese views are in T. Hara, F. Saito, and R. Pineau’s Japanese Destroyer Captain (New York, 1961), and S. Hayashi and A. D. Coox’ Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War (Quantico, Va., 1959). F. O. Hough chronicled The Assault on Peleliu (Washington, 1950). Leyte Gulf has received a great deal of attention, beginning with J. A. Field’s The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation (Princeton, 1947), and G. V. Woodward’s The Battle for Leyte Gulf (New York, 1947). A later study is S. E. Smith’s The Battle of Leyte Gulf (New York, 1961).
For the submarine campaign against Japan there is E. L. Beach’s Submarine! (New York, 1951), and for the Japanese side, M. Hashimoto’s Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941-1945 (New York, 1954). A thorough general treatment is T. Roscoe’s United States Submarine Operations in World War II (Annapolis, 1949). For the strategic bombing campaign there are W. H. Morrison’s Hellbirds: The Story of the B-29s in Combat (New York, 1960), and Martin Caidin’s A Torch to the Enemy: The Fire Raid on Tokyo (New York, 1960). Stories of Japan’s air forces are M. Okumiya, J. Horikoshi, with Martin Caidin, Zero! (New York, 1956), and S. Sakai with Martin Caidin and F. Saito, Samurai! (New York, 1957).
R. Henri wrote The U. S. Marines on Iwo Jima (Washington, 1945), and a later treatment is R. Wheeler’s The Bloody Battle for Suribachi (New York, 1965). For Okinawa and the kamikaze campaign there are R. E. Appleman’s Okinawa: The Last Battle (Washington, 1948), and M. Ito and R. Pineau’s The End of the Imperial