History

Asia

Hong Kong

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Louisa Lim

2022

History

Asia

Origins of WW2

The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949

S.C.M. Paine

2012

History

Britain/UK

British Empire

The British Empire’s Image of East Asia, 1900–41 chapter of Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century

Malcolm H. Murfett

2014

History

Britain/UK

Maritime History

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel

2011

History

Britain/UK

Royal Navy

Ships of the Royal Navy

J.J. Colledge

2010

History

Britain/UK

Royal Navy

Endeavour: The Ship that Changed the World

Peter Moore

2018

History

Counter-insurgency

Southeast Asia

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

John A. Nagl

2002

History

First World War

End of WWI

A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East

David Fromkin

1989

History

First World War

Japan

War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919

Frederick R. Dickinson

1999

History

First World War

Japan

World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919-1930

Frederick R. Dickinson

2013

History

First World War

Origins of WWI

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

2012

History

First World War

Origins of WWI

Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

Michael Neiberg

2011

History

First World War

Origins of WWI

George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

Miranda Carter

2010

History

First World War

Paris Peace Conference

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

2001

History

First World War

Worldwide history of WWI

The First World War

Hew Strachan

2005

History

Imperial Japan

Records

War and Armament Expenditures of Japan

Giichi Ono

1922

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887-1941

David C. Evans, Mark R. Peattie

2012

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Battleships

Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the Worlds Biggest Battleship

Akira Yoshimura

1999

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Battleships

Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Translated by Richard H. Minear)

Yoshida Mitsuru

1999

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Combined Fleet Operations

Japanese Combined Fleet 1942-43: Guadalcanal to the Solomons Campaign

Mark Stille

2024

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Records

Imperial Japanese Navy

Fred T. Jane

1904

History

Japan

Autobiography

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

Yukuchi Fukuzawa

1899

History

Japan

Biography

Ten years in Japan

Joseph Grew

1944

History

Japan

Britain/UK

Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1894-1907

Ian Nish

1966

History

Japan

Emperor Hirohito

Hirohito and His Times: A Japanese Perspective

Toshiaki Kawahara

1990

History

Japan

Emperor Hirohito

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert Bix

2000

History

Japan

End of WWII

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John Dower

2000

History

Japan

Imperial Japan

The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War

S.C.M. Paine

2017

History

Japan

Imperial Japan

Nan'yo: Imperial Japan in Micronesia 1885-1945

Mark R. Peattie

1992

History

Japan

Imperial Japan

Population pressure and economic life in Japan

R. Ishii

1937

History

Japan

Imperial Japanese Navy

From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States

Sadao Asada

2006

History

Japan

International Affairs

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922

Phillips O'Brien

2009

History

Japan

Meiji Restoration

To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History

Mark J. Ravina

2017

History

Japan

Militarism

Japan at War 1914-1952

Jeremy Yellen

2024

History

Japan

Post-War Japan

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World

John Dower

2012

History

Japan

Tokugawa Shogunate

Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu

A.L. Sadler

1937

History

Naval History

Maritime History

Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night, 1904-1944

Vincent P. Ohara and Trent Hone

2023

History

Second World War

American Analysis

Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan

Ronald H. Spector

1985

History

Second World War

American Analysis

The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima

Daniel Marston

2005

History

Second World War

Anthology

The Pacific Rivals: A Japanese View of Japanese-American Relations

Asahi Shinbun

1972

History

Second World War

Atomic Bombings

Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

Paul Ham

2014

History

Second World War

Autobiography

Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

William Manchester

2002

History

Second World War

Autobiography

Fading victory : the diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945

Admiral Matome Ugaki

1991

History

Second World War

Aviation Maintenance and Supply

Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific

Stan Fisher

2023

History

Second World War

Battle of Leyte Gulf

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

James D. Hornfischer

2005

History

Second World War

Biography

The Mussolini Memoirs 1942-1943

Benito Mussolini

1944

History

Second World War

Biography

The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1936-1943

Galeazzo Ciano

1990

History

Second World War

Central Pacific Campaign

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific 1944-45

James D. Hornfischer

2016

History

Second World War

Emperor Hirohito

Hirohito: Behind the Myth

Edward Behr

1990

History

Second World War

End of WW2

Japan's Longest Day

Kazutoshi Hando

1968

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

Triumph and Tragedy

Winston S. Churchill

1953

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

The Grand Alliance

Winston S. Churchill

1948

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

The Gathering Storm

Winston S. Churchill

1948

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

Closing the Ring

Winston S. Churchill

1951

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

The Hinge of Fate

Winston S. Churchill

1950

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

Their Finest Hour

Winston S. Churchill

1962

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

First into Nagasaki: The CENSORED Eyewitness Dispatches On Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

Anthony and George Weller

2007

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II

Samuel Eliot Morison

1962

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Accounts

Japan at War: an Oral History

Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook

1992

History

Second World War

Guadalcanal Campaign

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

James D. Hornfischer

2011

History

Second World War

Imperial Japanese Army

In the service of the Emperor : essays on the Imperial Japanese Army

Edward Drea

1998

History

Second World War

Japanese Analysis

The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945

Saburo Ienaga

1979

History

Second World War

Japanese Analysis

Shōwa Tennō no Jū-go Nen Sensō (Shōwa Emperor's Fifteen-year War)

Akira Fujiawara

1991

History

Second World War

Japanese Occupation of Guam

The Massacre at Atate

Jose M. Torres

2015

History

Second World War

Japanese Perspective

Journey to the Missouri

Toshikazu Kase

1950

History

Second World War

Military Strategy

The Military Strategy of the Emperor Hirohito

Akira Yamada

2002

History

Second World War

Submarines

Wake of the Wahoo: The Heroic Story of America's Most Daring WWII Submarine, USS Wahoo

Forest J. Sterling

1960

History

Second World War

Tsushima Maru Loss

Tsushima Maru

Yasuo Kayou

2005

History

Second World War

Tsushima Maru Loss

Tsushima Maru Sank Into the Sea - Battle of Okinawa children (Iwanamijuniashinsho)

Tatsuhiro Oshiro

2008

History

Second World War

U.S. Army, Europe

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

1992

History

Second World War

U.S. Marine Corps Aviation

Devilbirds: The Story of United States Marine Corps Aviation in World War II

John A. DeChant

1947

History

Second World War

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

"Execute Against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Joel Ira Holwitt

2009

History

Sino-Japanese War

Japan, China, Korea

The Sino-Japanese War Of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power, And Primacy

S.C.M. Paine

2002

History

Southeast Asia

Cold War, Vietnam

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

Max Boot

2018

History

United States Navy

A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy

Thomas J. Cutler

2005

History

United States Navy

Aircraft Carriers

Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation

James L. Holloway III

2007

History

United States Navy

Civil War

Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy

Dennis J. Ringle

1998

History

United States Navy

Reference

One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U. S. Navy, 1890-1990

George W. Baer

1994

History

United States of America

War

The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

Max Boot

2002

History

World History

War

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared DIamond

1997

History

World History

War

The World Aflame: A New History of War and Revolution: 1914-1945

Dan Jones and Marina Amaral

2020

International Affairs

Asia

China

The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the Twenty-first Century

Bernard D. Cole

2001

International Affairs

Asia

Indian Ocean

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

Robert D. Kaplan

2010

International Affairs

Asia

Japan, China, Russia

Korea and Manchuria between Russia and Japan, 1895-1904;: The observations of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan (1895-1900) and China

Ernest Mason Satow

1968

International Affairs

Asia

Northeast Asia

Red Star Over the Pacific

James Holmes, Toshi Yoshihara

2010

International Affairs

Asia

Northeast Asia

Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

Richard McGregor

2017

International Affairs

Asia

South China Sea

Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

Robert D. Kaplan

2014

International Affairs

United States of America

The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order

Colin S. Gray

2004

Literature

Asia

United States, China

The Sand Pebbles

Richard McKenna

1962

Literature

Imperial Japan

Patriotism

Yukio Mishima

1961

Literature

Japan

Bushido: The Soul of Japan

Inazo Nitobe

1899

Literature

Japan

Kappa

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

1927

Literature

Japan

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

1894

Literature

Japan

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Translated)

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

2009

Literature

Japan

Folktales

Strange Tales from Japan: 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural

Keisuke Nishimoto and William Scott Wilson

2021

Literature

Japan

Folktales

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn

1904

Literature

Second World War

U.S. Navy

The Winds of War

Herman Wouk

1971

Literature

Second World War

U.S. Navy

War and Remembrance

Herman Wouk

1978

Politics

Japan

Military

Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power

Sheila A. Smith

2019

Politics

Japan

Okinawa

The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism

Shinnosuke Takahashi

2024

Robotics

Robotics

War

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

P.W. Singer

2009