[Please read the Scuttlebutt page for more on how these sources relate to X-Day: Japan and Kyushu Diary.]
A page-by-page listing of many minor references used in the book are found in the blog category “References“.
Online Resources:
The World War Two Database,
http://ww2db.com/
The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia,
http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/
HyperWar, A Hypertext History of the Second World War,
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/
Military History Encyclopedia,
http://www.historyofwar.org/
WWII Forums,
http://www.ww2f.com/
Militarian Military History Forum,
http://www.militarian.com/
US Militaria Forum,
http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/
Armchair General Forums,
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/
Yank Magazine, archived at unz.org,
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Yank-1945
The Marine Corps Chevron, archived at Princeton University Library,
http://historicperiodicals.princeton.edu/historic/cgi-bin/historic?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=MarineCorpsChevron
US Navy Patrol Squadrons,
http://www.vpnavy.org/index1.html
Legends in Their Own Time (WW2 aircraft),
http://legendsintheirowntime.com/
Regular blog including many items on Operation Olympic and the end of World War Two,
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/author/trent-telenko/
Reference materials:
Keegan, John, editor, Atlas of the Second World War. Ann Arbor, MI: HarperCollins with Borders Press, 1989
Zaloga, Steven J.; Defense of Japan 1945. Long Island City, NY: Osprey, 2010
Personal accounts:
Green, Bob, Okinawa Odyssey. Albany, TX: Bright Sky Press, 2004.
Pyle, Ernie; Brave Men. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1943.
Pyle, Ernie; Here Is Your War. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1943.
Pyle, Ernie, Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches. Ed. David Nicols. New York, NY; Random House, 1986.
Sledge, E. B., With the Old Breed. New York, NY: Random House, 1981.
Tatum, Chuck, Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima. New York, NY: Berkley, 2012.
Tregaskis, Richard; Guadalcanal Diary. 1943. New York, NY; Random House
Yahara Hiromichi, The Battle for Okinawa, trans. Roger Pineau and Masatoshi Uehara. New York, NY; John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
Other works:
Hoffman, Col. Jon T., USMCR; Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC. New York, NY; Random House, 2001.
Stoler, Mark A., George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1989.
Sloan, Bill, Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 – The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Sloan, Bill, The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945 – The Last Epic Struggle of World War II. New York, NY: Simon & Shuster, 2007.
Eastern philosophy and history:
Cleary, Thomas, ed. and trans., Training the Samurai Mind: A Bushido Sourcebook. Boston, MA; Shambhala, 2009.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Trans. Samuel B. Griffith. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Musashi Miyamoto; The Book of Five Rings. Trans. William Scott Wilson. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2012.
Related fiction:
Some of our favorite historical fiction explores other endings of WW2, such as if atomic bombs were dropped on cities to force Japan’s surrender, or if the bomb simply wasn’t available:
Giangreco, D. M., Hell to Pay – Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009.
Frank, Richard B., Downfall – The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York, NY: Penguin, 1999.
Conroy, Robert; 1945 – What if Japan Hadn’t Surrendered in World War II? New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2007.
Coppel, Alfred; The Burning Mountain – A Novel of the Invasion of Japan. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. [This superlative bit of fiction can be faulted only for glossing over the invasion of Kyushu.]
Maps:
Pacific,
http://lukeroberts.deviantart.com/art/Photoshop-Shapes-World-Map-22233322
Japan with Ryukus,
http://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=24840
Kyushu,
http://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=115469
High quality scans of the original pre-invasion maps prepared by the U.S. Army are available from the University of Texas. In the same collection is a larger scale set for all of Japan, from 1954.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/kyushu/ [1945, 1:50,000 scale, 20 m elevation lines, VERY detailed]
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/japan/ [1954, 1:250,000 scale, 100 m elevation lines, shaded]
Congratulations on your new book. I know just how much time and effort goes into what you have done. It is in many ways a gift to others. I’m interested that it seems you were able to do it without using books, or do I get your resources section wrong? Will there be a bibliography that cites books and other printed material? The reason I ask is I read scores of histories, biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, official papers and the like, relying very little on on-line sources, which I suppose are the wave of the future and even the present. I came at the PTO from a far earlier point than you did, but the two would make an interesting combination for readers.
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Liars-They-knew-knew/dp/0989826902/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427236152&sr=1-1&keywords=jerry+jay+carroll
Best of luck with the marketing.
Jerry
In case you’re still following this thread – the bibliography is here now.
Also, I’m amused to see “The Great Liars” in the ‘People who bought this also bought…’ for X-Day: Japan.
At the moment I’m reading “A Call to Arms”, a very thick book about the American mobilization. Much of the text is devoted to political problems, and FDR comes off no better than Stalin as a manager of anything.
Yes, closer to press time the entire list of ‘suggested reading’ will be posted here, which is really a bibliography. [The current list is in place largely to generate cross-links and get better Google placement.]
I love the concept of The Great Liars, sounds like a lot of fun to write!
It was a gas, the only reason to write.