Katherine V. Dillon

Contains primary source material.

Biography of Mitsuo Fuchida, a career naval aviator who led the air attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in major campaigns in the Pacific.

"The last of the Prange manuscripts about Pearl Harbor"--Page ix. A detailed chronological account of the day. Includes reminiscences of officers, both American and Japanese.

With the infamy of Pearl Harbor still fresh in their minds, the men of the U.S. Pacific Fleet waited for the Japanese Imperial Navy at Midway Island. This time, however, the element of surprise had shifted, and the American troops would be the victors of a battle that marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific. Like At Dawn We Slept, Miracle at Midway brings together eyewitness accounts from the men who commanded and the men who fought on both sides. The sweeping narrative takes you into the thick of action and shows exactly how American strategies and decisions led to the triumphant victory and the crushing defeat of Japan.

As the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II draws to a close, the controversy still rages. It is essentially an argument between Japanese and Americans, but it also pits the politically correct American Left against veterans and their many supporters. On one side are those who believe the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a necessary evil. Had the war continued and a planned invasion of the Japanese islands been carried out, they argue, there would have been at least a million American - and Japanese - casualties. On the other side are those who focus on the vast devastation and human loss caused by the bombs. Rain of Ruin is the first comprehensive photographic record of the bombings. The prolific team of Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon, and J. Michael Wenger have created another World War II classic in their selection of over four hundred photographs of U.S. preparations for the attack and of the two cities and their people before, during, and after those fateful days.

"The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents that provides an invaluable resource for historians, students, and others with a deep interest in World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the eminent scholar of Pearl Harbor, who obtained them from Japanese naval leaders while working for the Military History Section of the American forces that occupied Japan."--BOOK JACKET.

Traces the rise of Japan as a military power and the emergence of the United States as a world superpower that found itself drawn into World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

(Excerpted from Goodreads.) “…[T]hese wartime diaries of a key admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, provide a revealing inside look into the Japanese view of the Pacific War. Matome Ugaki was chief of staff of the Combined Fleet under Admiral Isoroki Yamamoto until both were shot down over Bougainville in April 1943, resulting in Yamamoto's death. He later served as commander of battleship and air fleets, finally directing the kamikaze attacks off Okinawa. Invaluable for its details of the Japanese navy at war, the diaries offer a running appraisal of the fighting and are augmented by editorial commentary that proves especially useful to American readers eager to see the war from the other side. When first published in 1991, this dairy was hailed as a major contribution to World War II literature as the only firsthand account of strategic planning for the entire war by a Japanese commander.”