Pacific & East Asia
LORD, Walter
Day of Infamy
Classic account of the Pearl Harbor attack first published in 1954. The author based the work on his interviews with both Americans and Japanese involved in the attack.
LUNDSTROM, John B.
The First Team / The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign
Fine detailed account of the US Navy carrier-based air battles, in two substantial volumes:
Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway;
Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942.
MacCARTHY, Aidan
A Doctor's War
Autobiography of an RAF medical officer, first serving in France before Dunkirk and thereafter in the Far East. He was captured in Java in 1942 and transferred to mainland Japan in 1944.
MACINTYRE, Donald
Leyte Gulf - Armada in the Pacific
Purnell's History of the Second World War - Battle Book No. 11
MARCHANT, David John
Rise form the East - The Story of No. 247 (China-British) Squadron Royal Air Force
