Reference - IJN Historical

 

 

Title

Author

Date

Publisher

ISBN

A Battle History of The Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945) P.S. Dull

1978

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

0-87021-097-1

A Glorious Way to Die. The kamikaze mission of the battleship Yamato, April 1945 Russell Spurr

1981

Newmarket Press

0-937858-17-X

. A Magnificient Fight - The battle for Wake Island Robert J. Cressman

1995

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

15557501408

. Admiral John H. Towers. The struggle for naval air surprmacy Clark G. Reynolds

1991

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

0870210319

Advance Force Pearl Harbour Burl Burlingame

1992

Pacific Monograph

0-9629227-1-1

Afternoon of The Rising Sun. The Battle of Leyte Gulf Kenneth I. Friedman 2001 Presidio Press, Inc 0-89141-756-7
Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! Recollections of a Day of Infamy Paul Stillwell

1981

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

0870210866

Axis Submarine Successes 1939-1945 Jurgen Rohwer 1983 Patric Stephens Limited, Bar Hill, Cambridge, CB3 8E: 0-85059-695-5
. Battle of Cape Esperance. Ref from Steve Bolton Charles Cook

1992

Naval Institute Press

1-55750-126-2

. Battle of the Java Sea. Ref from Steve Bolton David Thomas

1968

Andre Deutsch

233-96072-4

Battleship Musashi. The Making and Sinking of The World's Biggest Battleship Akira Yoshimura
1991
Kodansha Interantional 4-7700-2400-2
Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II John Prados

1995

Random House

0679437010

. Death of a Navy. Ref from Steve Bolton Andrieu D'Albas

1954

Devin Adair Co

?

. Dec 7th 1941. Ref from Steve Bolton Gordon W. Prangle, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon

1988

Warner Books

0-446-38997-8

. Derailing the Tokyo Express. Ref from Steve Bolton Jack D. Coombe

1991

Stackpole Books

0-8117-3030-1

. Design and Construction of the YAMATO and MUSASHI. Ref from JMG Dohmen. Captain Kitaro Matsumoto/Commander

1961

Masataka chihaya

?

Destroyer Squadron 23. Combat exploits of Arleigh Burke's gallant force Ken Jones 1997 Bluejacket Books 1-55750-412-1
. Disaster in the Pacific. New light on the Battle of Savo Island. Ref from Steve Bolton Denis & Peggy Warner

1992

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

0-87021-256-7

Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki 1941-45 Translated by Masataka Chihaya, Forward by Gordon W. Prange, Edited by Donald M. Goldstein and katherine V. Dillon
1991
University of Pittsburgh Press 0-8229-3665-8
Fire in The Sky. The air war in the south Pacific Eric M. Bergerud 2000 Westview Press 0-8133-3869-7
Ghost Fleet of The Truk Lagoon. Japanese Mandated Islands. An Account of "Operation Hailstone", February, 1944 W.H. Stewart

1986

Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.., Missoula, MO

0-933126-66-2

I-Boat Captain. Zenji Orita

Joseph D. Harrington

1976

Major Books, Canoga Park, CA 91304

0-89041-103-4

Japanese Destroyer Captain Capt. Tameichi Hara

Fred Saito

Rogger Pineau

1961

Ballantine Books, NY

0-345-27894-1

Japanese High Seas Fleet Richard Humble 1973 Ballantine Books Inc 0-330-24104-4
Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II Ikuhiko Hata Yasuho Izawa

1989

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

0-87021-315-6

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

David C. Evans
Mark R. Peattie

1997

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

0-87021-192-7

Lost Subs. From the Hunley to the Kursk, the greatest submarines ever lost - and found Spencer Dunmore 2002 D Capro Press/Madison Press 0-306-81140-5
Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 J. Charles Schencking 2005 Stanford University Press 0-80474-977-9
Midway, the Battle that Doomed Japan Mitsuo Fuchida
Masatake Okumiya

1955

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

1557505756

Military History of Japanese Aircraft Carriers J. Kimata 1977 No ISBN
. Modern Imperial Navy History (Kinsei Teikoku Kaigun Shiyo) .

1938

Tokyo Kaigun Yushukai

.

. Morning Glory: A history of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Ref from Steve Bolton Stephen Howarth

1983

Hamish Hamilton Ltd

0-241-11115-3

. Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy: The Pacific War, 1942-1945: The Pacific War Arthur J. Marder

Mark Jacobsen

John Horsfieldq
. . .
. Purnell's History of WW 2, Battle Book 11, Leyte Gulf, Armada in the Pacific. Ref from Steve Bolton Donald Macintyre

1969

MacDonald & Co

No

Requiem for Battleship Yamato Yoshida Mitsura

1999

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

1557505446

Return to Midway. The quest to find the Yorktown and the other lost ships from the pivotal battle of the Pacific War Robert D. Ballard and Rick Archbold 1999 National Geographic/Madison Press 0-7922-7500-4
Samurai! Saburo Sakai, Martin Caidin, Fred Saito 2001 iboos, Inc 0-7434-9332-X
. Sensuikan I-124: A History of the Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Submarine Sunk in Northern Territory Waters. Tom Lewis 1997 Darwin: Tall Stories .
Shinano.! The siniing of Japan's secret supership Joseph F. Enright

1987

The Bodley Head

0-370-31106-X

Sink the Haguro. Ref from Steve Bolton John Winton

1979

Seely, Service & Co.

0-85422-152-2

. Submarine Warefare - Monstes & Midgets Richard Compton-Hall 1985 Poole, Dorset: Blandord Press .
Suicide Squards of World War II Richard O'Neill 1981 Salamander Books Ltd 0-88029-299-7
. Sucide Submarines! The Story of Japan's Submarine "Kamikaze" of Manned Torpedoes! Yutaka Yokota, Joseph Harrington 1968 New York Ballantine Books
Sunburst. The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 Mark R. Peattie 2001 Naval Institute Press 1-55750-432-6
. Sunk! A Japanese submarine commander's dramatic and documented story of the Nippon Fleet in action - from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa Mochitsura Hashirmoto

1954

Cassell and Co. .

The British Pacific and East Indies Fleets 'The Forgotten Fleets' 50th Anniversary

(Ref from Mike Costello)

.
1995
.
1-874447-28-4
The End of The Imperial Japanese Navy Masanori Ito, Roger Pineau

1962

The Berkley Publishing Group, NY, NY

0-515-08176-0

The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1895-1945 Steven Howarth 1983 Atheneum, NY 0-689-11402-8
. The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait W.G. Winslow

1994

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

1557509271

The Japanese Force and World War II Carl Boyd and Akihiko Yoshida 1995

Airlife Publishing Ltd.

Naval Institute Press

1-85310-764-6
The Japanese Navy in World War II. In the words of former Japanese Navy officers. Second Edition D.C. Evans

1986

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

0-87021-316-4

The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal. Exploring the ghost fleet of the South Pacific Robert D. Ballard with Rick Archbold 1993 Warner/Maddison Press 0-446-51636-8
. The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Night Action, 13 November 1942 James W. Grace

1999

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

1557503273

.

The Naval War in the Pacific: Rising Sun of Nippon.

Ref from JMG Dohmen.

Trevor Nevitt Dupuy

1963

Edmund Ward Publ.

?

The Official Chronology of The U.S. Navy in World War II

(Ref from Mike Costello)

Robert J. Cressman
2000
US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402
1-55750-149-1
. The Pacific War 1931-1945 Lenaga, Saburo 1978 Pantheon Books, NY

The Pacific War. From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. 1941-1945

(Ref from Mike Costello)

Andrew Wiest and Gegory Louis Mattson
2001
Spellmount
1-86227-137-2
The Reluctant Admiral. Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy H. Agawa 2000 Kodansha International Ltd. 4-7700-2539-4
. The Royal Navy and the Sino-Japanese Incident 1937-1941. Ref from JMG Dohmen Martin Brice

1973

Ian Allan

0-7110-0402-1

The Second World War in The East

(Ref from Mike Costello)

H.P. Willmott
1999
Cassell
0-304-352-306
. The Way It Was. Pearl Harbour, The Original Photographs. Ref from Steve Bolton. Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon

1991

Brassey's

0-08-040573-8

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Captain Ted W. Lawson 1943 Random House .
Thunder Below. The USS Barb revolutionizes submarine warfare in World War II Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey 1992 University of Illinois Press 0-252-01925-3
. Undersea Samuri: Imperial Japanese Navy Submarine Doctrine and Operations of the Second World War Willis Joe Cato II 2003 Greenville, NC: East Carolina Univeristy .
. Undersea Victory. The Influence of Submarine Operations on the War in the Pacific Holmes, W.J. 1966 Doubleday & Co .
. Underwater Warriors. Midget Submarine Operations in War Paul Kemp

1996

US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MA 21402

1557508577

War Maps World War II Simon Goodenough 1982 Macdonald & Co. Ltd 0-312-85584-2
Yamamoto. The Man Who Menaced America John Deane Potter

1967

A Kinney Sevice Company, NY, NY

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Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Paul Parsons for his inputs.