Pacific War Book Reviews

Title	Author	Reviewer	Review Date	Rev Date
Advance Force Pearl Harbor	Burl Burlingame	David Stubblebine	21 Jan 2014	2014-01-21
Always Faithful	Eric Hammel	C. Peter Chen	4 Nov 2011	2011-11-04
American Aces Against the Kamikaze	Edward Young	C. Peter Chen	6 Mar 2013	2013-03-06
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964	William Manchester	C. Peter Chen	7 Aug 2005	2005-08-07
And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway-Breaking the Secrets	Edwin T. Layton	David Stubblebine	25 Mar 2024	2024-03-25
B-29 Superfortress: A Comprehensive Registry of the Planes and Their Missions	Robert A. Mann	David Stubblebine	20 Jun 2018	2018-06-20
Bomb	Steve Sheinkin	C. Peter Chen	5 Feb 2014	2014-02-05
Carrier Warfare in the Pacific	E. T. Wooldridge	David Stubblebine	8 Jun 2017	2017-06-08
Code Talker	Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila	C. Peter Chen	3 Jul 2012	2012-07-03
Countdown 1945	Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss	David Stubblebine	22 Apr 2022	2022-04-22
Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey	Alvin Kernan	David Stubblebine	3 Mar 2012	2012-03-03
Cultures of War	John W. Dower	C. Peter Chen	22 Apr 2015	2015-04-22
Darkest Hour	Bruce Gamble	C. Peter Chen	19 Feb 2007	2007-02-19
End of Empire	David Chandler, et. al.	C. Peter Chen	19 Jul 2019	2019-07-19
Enterprise	Barrett Tillman	C. Peter Chen	5 Feb 2013	2013-02-05
Escape from the Deep	Alex Kershaw	C. Peter Chen	25 Dec 2010	2010-12-25
Escort Carrier WW II	Rick Cline	David Stubblebine	25 Nov 2008	2008-11-25
F4F Wildcat vs. A6M Zero-sen	Edward M. Young	Andrew Nguyen	3 Aug 2016	2016-08-03
F6F Hellcat vs A6M Zero-sen	Edward M. Young	Andrew Nguyen	11 Nov 2015	2015-11-11
Flags of Our Fathers	James Bradley and Ron Powers	C. Peter Chen	22 Sep 2006	2006-09-22
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage	James Bradley	David Stubblebine	7 Jul 2008	2008-07-07
Fortress Rabaul	Bruce Gamble	C. Peter Chen	11 Sep 2012	2012-09-11
Ghost Soldiers	Hampton Sides	C. Peter Chen	3 Nov 2010	2010-11-03
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War	William Manchester	C. Peter Chen	11 Apr 2006	2006-04-11
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War	William Manchester	Jimmy Lebel	30 Jul 2010	2010-07-30
Guadalcanal: The U. S. Marines in World War II	Eric Hammel	C. Peter Chen	13 Aug 2007	2007-08-13
Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu	Jim McEnery with Bill Sloan	C. Peter Chen	16 Jun 2012	2012-06-16
Helmet for My Pillow	Robert Leckie	C. Peter Chen	24 Apr 2010	2010-04-24
Helmet for My Pillow	Robert Leckie	Jimmy Lebel	1 Sep 2010	2010-09-01
Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Legendary Marine John Basilone	James Brady	C. Peter Chen	7 Jan 2015	2015-01-07
Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships 1941-45	Mark Stille	C. Peter Chen	1 Aug 2008	2008-08-01
In Harm's Way	Doug Stanton	C. Peter Chen	20 Aug 2005	2005-08-20
Inferno	Joseph A. Springer	C. Peter Chen	14 Nov 2007	2007-11-14
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy	Eri Hotta	C. Peter Chen	9 Jul 2014	2014-07-09
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy	Eri Hotta	Andrew Nguyen	29 Apr 2015	2015-04-29
Japan 1945: From Operation Downfall to Hiroshima and Nagasaki	Clayton K. S. Chun	David Stubblebine	23 Jan 2010	2010-01-23
Japan's Longest Day	The Pacific War Research Society	Andrew Nguyen	29 Jun 2016	2016-06-29
Japanese Intelligence in World War II	Ken Kotani	C. Peter Chen	5 Aug 2009	2009-08-05
Joe Rochefort's War	Elliot Carlson	C. Peter Chen	18 Aug 2012	2012-08-18
Kaiten: Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American First Ship It Sank	Michael Mair and Joy Waldron	David Stubblebine	7 Jan 2016	2016-01-07
Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944-45	Steven Zaloga	C. Peter Chen	27 Jul 2011	2011-07-27
Killing the Rising Sun	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	C. Peter Chen	6 Oct 2017	2017-10-06
Landing Craft, Infantry and Fire Support	Gordon L. Rottman	C. Peter Chen	3 Nov 2009	2009-11-03
Lost in Shangri-La	Mitchell Zuckoff	C. Peter Chen	21 Aug 2013	2013-08-21
Lucky's Life	Don J. Larson	David Stubblebine	22 Sep 2017	2017-09-22
Midway: Dauntless Victory	Peter C. Smith	C. Peter Chen	28 Jun 2008	2008-06-28
Native American Code Talker in World War II	Ed Gilbert	C. Peter Chen	24 Apr 2008	2008-04-24
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal	James Hornfischer	C. Peter Chen	22 Aug 2011	2011-08-22
Never Call Me a Hero	N. Jack Kleiss	C. Peter Chen	8 Oct 2018	2018-10-08
No Ordinary Joes	Larry Colton	C. Peter Chen	25 Jun 2011	2011-06-25
Odyssey of a Philippine Scout	Arthur Kendall Whitehead	Thomas Houlihan	22 May 2006	2006-05-22
Operation Storm	John Geoghegan	C. Peter Chen	30 Aug 2013	2013-08-30
P-40 Warhawk vs Ki-43 Oscar	Carl Molesworth	C. Peter Chen	26 May 2008	2008-05-26
Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941	Stanley Weintraub	C. Peter Chen	29 Jan 2014	2014-01-29
Pearl Harbor Ghosts: The Legacy of December 7, 1941	Thurston Clarke	David Stubblebine	20 Aug 2017	2017-08-20
Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War	Steven Gillon	C. Peter Chen	3 Jul 2013	2013-07-03
Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness	Craig Nelson	C. Peter Chen	18 Jun 2018	2018-06-18
Pearl; December 7, 1941	Daniel Allen Butler	David Stubblebine	15 Jul 2022	2022-07-15
Proud Echo	Ronald McKie	Dan K.	27 Aug 2008	2008-08-27
PT 109	William Doyle	C. Peter Chen	28 Dec 2016	2016-12-28
Reminiscences	Douglas MacArthur	C. Peter Chen	31 Aug 2006	2006-08-31
Requiem for Battleship Yamato	Mitsuru Yoshida	C. Peter Chen	26 Feb 2006	2006-02-26
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45	Max Hastings	C. Peter Chen	14 Feb 2011	2011-02-14
Santa Cruz 1942: Carrier duel in the South Pacific	Mark Stille	Andrew Nguyen	13 Mar 2013	2013-03-13
Sea of Thunder	Evan Thomas	C. Peter Chen	7 Mar 2011	2011-03-07
Seafire vs. A6M Zero: Pacific Theater	Donald Nijboer	C. Peter Chen	27 Dec 2009	2009-12-27
Shadows in the Jungle	Larry Alexander	C. Peter Chen	28 Nov 2010	2010-11-28
Shattered Sword	Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully	C. Peter Chen	2 Dec 2005	2005-12-02
Ship of Ghosts	James Hornfischer	C. Peter Chen	26 Aug 2010	2010-08-26
Swashbucklers and Black Sheep	Bruce Gamble	C. Peter Chen	1 Aug 2014	2014-08-01
Tales from a Tin Can	Michael Olson	Jimmy Lebel	25 Sep 2010	2010-09-25
Target: Rabaul	Bruce Gamble	C. Peter Chen	19 Feb 2014	2014-02-19
Tears in the Darkness	Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman	C. Peter Chen	18 Jul 2011	2011-07-18
The British Fleet Air Arm in World War II	Mark Barber	C. Peter Chen	3 Jul 2008	2008-07-03
The Color of War	James Campbell	C. Peter Chen	14 Jul 2012	2012-07-14
The Divine Wind	Rikihei Inoguchi and Tadashi Nakajima	C. Peter Chen	16 Nov 2006	2006-11-16
The Fall of the Philippines 1941-42	Clayton Chun	C. Peter Chen	29 May 2012	2012-05-29
The First Heroes	Craig Nelson	C. Peter Chen	26 Nov 2014	2014-11-26
The Great Raid	William Breuer	C. Peter Chen	26 Mar 2014	2014-03-26
The Greatest U.S. Marine Corps Stories Ever Told	Iain Martin	C. Peter Chen	11 Jan 2008	2008-01-11
The Greatest U.S. Marine Corps Stories Ever Told	Iain Martin	Thomas Houlihan	30 Sep 2010	2010-09-30
The Indestructible Man	Don Keith and David Rocco	David Stubblebine	21 Aug 2019	2019-08-21
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors	James Hornfischer	C. Peter Chen	29 Dec 2004	2004-12-29
The Last Train from Hiroshima	Charles Pellegrino	C. Peter Chen	21 Feb 2010	2010-02-21
The Lions of Iwo Jima	Fred Haynes and James Warren	C. Peter Chen	15 May 2013	2013-05-15
The Pacific	Hugh Ambrose	C. Peter Chen	31 Oct 2011	2011-10-31
The Pacific Campaign	Dan van der Vat	C. Peter Chen	28 Jun 2005	2005-06-28
The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima	Daniel Marston	C. Peter Chen	29 Mar 2010	2010-03-29
The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima	Daniel Marston	Jimmy Lebel	26 Feb 2011	2011-02-26
The Struggle for Guadalcanal	Samuel Eliot Morison	C. Peter Chen	23 Mar 2006	2006-03-23
The Twilight Warriors	Robert Gandt	C. Peter Chen	21 May 2011	2011-05-21
The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan	James Scott	C. Peter Chen	18 Mar 2015	2015-03-18
The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945	Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns	C. Peter Chen	25 Jul 2010	2010-07-25
The West Point Atlas of War: World War II: The Pacific	Vincent J. Esposito	C. Peter Chen	16 Jan 2010	2010-01-16
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Ted W. Lawson	C. Peter Chen	5 Nov 2005	2005-11-05
Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	C. Peter Chen	11 Dec 2012	2012-12-11
Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor	Bill Sloan	C. Peter Chen	28 Jun 2012	2012-06-28
US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1922-45	Mark Stille	Andrew Nguyen	3 Oct 2009	2009-10-03
US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1942-45	Mark Stille	Andrew Nguyen	8 Oct 2009	2009-10-08
US Navy War Photographs	Edward Steichen	David Stubblebine	24 Mar 2009	2009-03-24
US Patrol Torpedo Boats	Gordon L. Rottman	C. Peter Chen	22 Dec 2008	2008-12-22
USS Cassin Young (DD-793): A Fletcher Class Destroyer	J. Scott Harmon	Andrew Nguyen	18 Jun 2013	2013-06-18
VF-11/111 'Sundowners' 1942-95	Barrett Tillman with Henk van der Lugt	David Stubblebine	11 Jun 2014	2014-06-11
War Beneath the Waves	Don Keith	C. Peter Chen	30 Jun 2010	2010-06-30
War in Pacific Skies	Charlie and Ann Cooper	C. Peter Chen	12 Mar 2011	2011-03-12
War in the Pacific	Richard Overy	C. Peter Chen	12 Apr 2010	2010-04-12
Warpath Across the Pacific	Lawrence J. Hickey	David Stubblebine	10 Apr 2012	2012-04-10
Warship 2009	Anthony Preston	C. Peter Chen	12 Oct 2009	2009-10-12
Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan 1942-1945	Barrett Tillman	C. Peter Chen	9 May 2010	2010-05-09
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa	Eugene B. Sledge	Bryan Hiatt	25 Jul 2005	2005-07-25
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa	Eugene B. Sledge	Jimmy Lebel	5 Nov 2010	2010-11-05
World War II Japanese Tank Tactics	Gordon Rottman and Akira Takizawa	C. Peter Chen	20 Mar 2009	2009-03-20
World War II US Cavalry Units: Pacific Theater	Gordon L. Rottman	C. Peter Chen	27 Oct 2009	2009-10-27

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