Notes - Hirohito's War

   
Chapter 1 - Empires in Conflict
Chapter 2 - Ultra-nationalism and the Death of Democracy
Chapter 3 - Japan versus China: From Phoney War to Total War
Chapter 4 - Mobilization for War in Asia: America and Japan
Chapter 5 - Pearl Harbor: Yamamoto’s Great Mistake
Chapter 6 - Plan ORANGE and MacArthur’s Philippines Debacle
Chapter 7 - Invasion of Malaya: Yamashita’s ‘Bicycle Blitzkrieg’
Chapter 8 - Fall of Singapore: Churchill’s Sacrificial Pawn
Chapter 9 - Burma Corps: Humiliation Then a Fighting Retreat
Chapter 10 - Dutch East Indies and Japan’s Quest for Oil
Chapter 11 - Limits of Empire: Doolittle and New Military Strategies
Chapter 12 - Battle of the Coral Sea: The First Carrier ‘Shoot-Out’
Chapter 13 - Battle of Midway: Nimitz’s Lucky Day
Chapter 14 - Battles of the Kokoda Trail: Aussies Triumphant
Chapter 15 - Guadalcanal: Battles of Tulagi, Savo Island, Tenaru and East Solomons
Chapter 16 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Edson’s (Bloody) Ridge
Chapter 17 - Guadalcanal: Henderson Field and the Santa Cruz Islands
Chapter 18 - Battles of Buna-Gona-Sanananda: MacArthur’s Lies and Neglect
Chapter 19 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Tassafaronga and Final Reckonings
Chapter 20 - Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Tipping Point of US Air Supremacy
Chapter 21 - Yamamoto Assassinated and the Battle of New Georgia
Chapter 22 - The Huon Peninsula: Operation CARTWHEEL Completed
Chapter 23 - The Isolation of Rabaul and the Starvation of Bougainville
Chapter 24 - The Battles of Arakan, Imphal, and Kohima: Slim Boxes Clever
Chapter 25 - The ICHI-GO Campaign and the Battle of Myitkyina
Chapter 26 - Battle for China: FDR, Chiang, Mao, and ‘Vinegar Joe’
Chapter 27 - Jump to Hollandia: MacArthur’s Greatest Victory
Chapter 28 - Pacific Island Hop: The Gilberts, Marshalls, and Carolines
Chapter 29 - The Great Marianas ‘Turkey Shoot’
Chapter 30 - The Invasions of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam: General Tojo Upended
Chapter 31 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf: ‘Bull’ Halsey’s Mad Dash for Glory
Chapter 32 - “I Have Returned”: MacArthur Regains the Philippines
Chapter 33 - The Battle of the Irrawaddy River: Slim’s ‘Mandalay Feint’
Chapter 34 - Iwo Jima: The Iconic Battle of the Pacific War
Chapter 35 - The Battle of Okinawa: Slaughter of the Innocents
Chapter 36 - LeMay’s B-29 Superfortresses over Japan: Cities in Ashes
Chapter 37 - Potsdam, Hirohito, and the Atom Bomb
APPENDIX A - SUBMARINES: THE UNDERSEA WAR
APPENDIX B - RAW MATERIALS AND LOGISTICS
APPENDIX C - ECONOMICS OF THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX D - THE JAPANESE EMPIRE – FROM CO-PROSPERITY TO TYRANNY
APPENDIX E - TYPHOONS AND DIVINE WINDS: KAMIKAZE
APPENDIX K - THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG
APPENDIX L - THE BATTLES OF ATTU AND KISKA
APPENDIX N - THE ROLE OF OIL IN THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX O - JAPANESE–SOVIET CONFLICT IN SIBERIA, MONGOLIA AND MANCHURIA

CHAPTER 7 – INVASION OF MALAYA

  1. Eiji, Seki, Ferguson’s Tea-set, Japan and the Second World War: The Global Consequences Following Germany’s Sinking of the SS Automaton in 1940 (Global Oriental Ltd., 2006) p.87
  2. Ibid., p.87
  3. Toland, John, Rising Sun (Random House, 1970, Reprinted 2003) p.270
  4.   Sandler, Stanley, World War II in the Pacific, Encyclopaedia (Garland Publishing, 2001) p.1058
  5.   Hoyt, Edwin, Japan’s War: The Great Pacific Conflict (Da Capo Press, 1989) p.198
  6. Ibid., p.198
  7.  Smith, Colin, Singapore Burning, Heroism and Surrender in World War II, (Viking, London, 2005) p.105
  8. Thompson, Peter, The Battle for Singapore, The True Story of the Greatest   Catastrophe of World War II (Piatkus Books, London, 2004) p.122
  9.    Ibid., p.177
  10. Moreman, Tim, The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War,   1941-45: Fighting Methods, Doctrine and Training for Jungle Warfare (Routledge 2005) p.13 
  11. Toland, Rising Sun, p.269
  12. Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.108
  13. Leasor, James, Singapore: The Battle that Changed the World (House of Stratus, 2001) p.164
  14. Shores, Christopher F., Brian Cull, Brian and Izawa, Yasuho, Bloody Shambles, Vol. 1: The Drift to War to the Fall of Singapore: First Comprehensive Account of Air Operations Over South-East Asia, December 1941-April 1942 (Grub Stree, 1992) p.65
  15. Ibid., p.33
  16. Ibid., p.43
  17. Ibid., p.71
  18. Wilmott, H.P., Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (Naval Institute Press, 2008) p.173
  19. Smith, Singapore Burning, p.121
  20. Shennan, Margaret, Out in the Midday Sun, The British in Malaysia, 1880-1960 (John Murray, London, 2000) p.229
  21. Smith, Colin, Singapore Burning, p.94
  22. Costello, The Pacific War, 1941-1945, p.131
  23. Shores, Cull, and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, 81
  24. Ibid., p.97
  25. Nicholson, Arthur, Hostages to Fortune: Winston Churchill and the Loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse (Sutton Publishing, 2005) p.25
  26. Ibid., p.25.
  27. Ibid., p.25
  28. Ibid., p.179
  29. Ibid., p.35
  30. Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.153
  31. Nicholson, Hostages to Fortune, p.69
  32. Ibid., p.71
  33. Ibid., p.104
  34. Ibid., p.104
  35. Ibid., p.75
  36. Churchill, The Second World War: The Grand Alliance, Volume III (Penguin Classics, London, 2005) p.615-16
  37. Nicholson, Hostages to Fortune, p.82
  38. Ibid., p.71
  39. Tsuji, Masanobu and Margaret E. Lake, tr., Japan’s Greatest Victory, Britain’s Worst Defeat (Da Capo Press, New York, 1997) p.98
  40. Thompson, Peter, The Battle for Singapore, The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II (Piatkus Books, London, 2004) p.207
  41. Nicholson, Hostages to Fortune, p.128
  42. Shores, Cull, and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.119
  43. Nicholson, Hostages to Fortune, p.131
  44. Shores, Cull, and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.121
  45. Nicholson, Hostages to Fortune, p.131
  46. Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.208
  47. Nicholson, Hostages to Fortune, p.136
  48. Ibid., p.146
  49. Frank Owen, The Fall of Singapore (Penguin, London, 2001) p.65
  50. Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.216
  51. Nicholson, Hostages to Fortune, p.159
  52. Shores, Cull, and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.108
  53. Smith, Singapore Burning, p.229
  54. Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.381
  55. Ibid., p.96
  56. Ibid., p.95
  57. Costello, The Pacific War, 1941-1945, p.108
  58. Ibid., p.110
  59. Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.104
  60. Ibid., p.284
  61. Ibid., p.287
  62. Shennan, Out in the Midday Sun, p.237
  63. Lee, The Singapore Way, p.52
  64. Tsuji and Lake, Japan’s Greatest Victory, p.117
  65. Connell, John, Wavell, Supreme Commander (Collins, London, 1969) p.97
  66. Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.257
  67. Ibid., p.259
  68. Ibid., p.271
  69. Shepley, Nick, Red Sun at War Part II: Allied Defeat in the Far East (Andrews UK Ltd., 2012)
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  71. The Herald (Melbourne), 27 December 1941: www.john.curtin.edu.au/pmportal/text/00468.html
  72. Ibid.,
  73. Shennan, Out in the Midday Sun, p.232
  74. ubeauties.wordpress.com
  75. Moreman, The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, p.27
  76. Ibid., p.27
  77. Ibid., p.20
  78. Ibid., p.28
  79. Ibid., p.27
  80. Ibid., p.27
  81. Shores, Cull, and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.133
  82. Ibid., p.133
  83. Cull, Brian, and Paul Sortehaug, Hurricanes Over Singapore: RAF, RNZAF and NEI Fighters in Action Against the Japanese Over the Island and the Netherlands East Indies, 1942 (Grub Street, 2004) p.77
  84. Tsuji and Lake, tr., Japan’s Greatest Victory, Britain’s Worst Defeat (Da Capo Press, New York, 1997) p.213
  85. US Joint Forces Staff College, The Japanese Campaign in Malaya: December 1941-February 1942 A Study in Joint Warfighting (2002), p.23
  86. Moreman, The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, p.36
  87. Keegan, John, The Second World War (Pimlico, London, 1997: first published 1989) p.252
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