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Pacific History Guide Reading List
Topic | Category | Subject | Title | Author | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | Commanding the Pacific: Marine Corps Generals in World War II | Stephen Taaffe | 2021 |
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 | U.S. Naval Aviation | Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific | Stan Fisher | 2023 |
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 | American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America | Colin Woodard | 2012 | |
History | United States of America | American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good | Colin Woodard | 2017 | |
History | United States of America | Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood | Colin Woodard | 2020 | |
History | United States of America | Japanese Confinement | When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII | Susan H. Kamei | 2021 |
History | United States of America | Japanese Confinement | Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II | Bill Manbo, Eric L. Muller | 2012 |
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 | The Earth Transformed: An Untold History | Peter Frankopan | 2024 | |
History | World History | The Silk Roads: A New History of the World | Peter Frankopan | 2016 | |
History | World History | The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World | Peter Frankopan | 2019 | |
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 | Japan | Cultural Anthropology | The Chrysanthemum And The Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture | Ruth Benedict | 1946 |
International Affairs | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 | J. Charles Schencking | |
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 | 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 | Japan | Imperial Japan | Patriotism | Yukio Mishima | 1961 |
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 |
Philosophy | Japan | Bushido | Bushido: The Soul of Japan | Inazo Nitobe | 1899 |
Philosophy | Japan | Bushido | Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai | Yamamoto Tsunetomo | 1716 |
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 |
Travel Guide | Japan | Okinawa | Travel Guide: Castles of Okinawa | Brian Jester | 2025 |
Warfare | Counter-insurgency | Southeast Asia | Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam | John A. Nagl | 2002 |
Warfare | Tactics | China | On Guerrilla Warfare | Mao Tse-Tung | 1937 |
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