PHG Blog

What follows here is less a book review than an annotated bibliography; in my studies of the Imperial Japanese Navy I found that there are hundreds of secondary sources (many of them excellent), but the primary source data, particularly in English, can be harder to find. At the same time, Western sources can lose sight of the primary subject matter and cloud the historiography with implicit (and sometimes explicit) bias.

Greetings everyone! I recently found that one of my favorite authors, Sarah C.M. Paine, gave a series of historical lectures on youtube...

Hey everyone, back again this week with another guide to the guide. This time, we'll be looking at the PHG reading list . I recently saw...

Greetings all, back today with another book recommendation. On this day April 28th in 1952, the Allied Occupation of Japan ended. It’s...

Greetings, I have another book recommendation for you all. I firmly believe that any study of the Second World War, modern warfare,...

I've recently finished this manga, one of the better I've read, that follows the events of the last days of the Second World War,...