Authors and
Historians on the Roundtable
Updated: 26 June 2007
This page lists books that relate in some way to
World War II in the Pacific, and which are the work of the historian/authors of
the Roundtable. The entries below are
in alphabetical order, by author’s name, and include links to Amazon.com or to
other web sites for detailed information on each book.
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Books that are of special interest on the Roundtable
for their relevance specifically to the Battle of Midway are marked by: +
+ That Gallant Ship: the USS Yorktown (CV-5) (1985)
~ Amazon.com
review
+ A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway,
4-6 June, 1942 (1990,
1998) ~ Amazon.com
review
Steady Nerves and
Stout Hearts: the Enterprise (CV-6) Air Group and Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
(1990) ~ Amazon.com
review
Infamous day: Marines
at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 (1992) ~ Amazon.com
review
A Magnificent Fight:
The Battle for Wake Island
(1995) ~ Amazon.com
review
Carrier Lexington (1996)
~ Amazon.com
review
The Official
Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II (1999)
~ Amazon.com
review
USS Ranger: The Navy's
First Flattop from Keel to Mast, 1934-1946 (2005)
~ Amazon.com
review
Halsey (pending, 2006)
~ Amazon.com
review
+ Life on
a Tin Can: the Pacific War (2002) ~ Amazon.com
review
+ Crossing the Line (1994, 1997, revised edition 2005) ~ Amazon.com
review
+ Love and Glory: the Death of a Torpedo Squadron (2005) (a novel) ~ Amazon.com
review
+ The Unknown Battle of Midway; the Destruction of the
American Torpedo Squadrons (2005) ~ Amazon.com
review
Attack-Repeat-Attack (2006) (novel, sequel to Love and Glory) ~ Amazon.com
review
Fear In the Dark (2007) (novel, sequel to Attack-Repeat-Attack) ~ Amazon.com
review
+ God
Was At Midway (1997). Second edition published as The USS
Yorktown at the Battle of Midway (2004) ~ Amazon.com
review
+ The
First South Pacific Campaign; Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941-June 1942 (1976)
~ Amazon.com
review
+ The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl
Harbor to Midway (1984, 2nd
edition 1990, paperback 2005) ~ Amazon.com
review
The First Team and the
Guadalcanal Campaign: Pacific Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (1994, paperback 2005) ~ Amazon.com
review
Fateful Rendezvous:
the Life of Butch O'Hare
(1997, paperback 2004) by Lundstrom & Ewing ~ Amazon.com
review
+ Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at
Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal (2006) ~ Amazon.com
review
+ Shattered Sword, the Untold Story of the Battle of
Midway (2005) by Parshall
and Tully ~ "Shattered Sword" web site
+ Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and
Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909-1945 ~ Amazon.com
review
Aircraft Carriers: A History
of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume II: 1945-2006 ~ Amazon.com
review
The Enola Gay: The
B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (2004) ~ Amazon.com
review
Historic Naval
Aircraft (2005) ~ Potomac
Books review
(This is only a small sample of Norman Polmar’s works. For a more complete listing of his many
books on submarines, espionage, World War II, and other topics, search “Norman
Polmar” in Amazon.com.)
+ In Bitter Tempest: The Biography of Admiral Frank
Jack Fletcher (1994) ~ Amazon.com
review
+ No Right To Win: a Continuing Dialogue with Veterans
of the Battle of Midway
(2006) ~ Amazon.com
review
Hawaii Under the
Rising Sun: Japan’s Plans for Conquest
After Pearl Harbor (1984)
~ Amazon.com
review
(For a listing of Dr. Stephan’s
many books on other topics, search “John J. Stephan” in Amazon.com.)
+ The Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War
II (1976)
~ Amazon.com
Review
+ TBD Devastator Units of the U.S. Navy (1990)
~ Osprey
Review
+ Dauntless (1992) (a
novel) ~ Amazon.com
review
+ Wildcat Aces of World War II (1995) ~ Osprey
Review
+ SBD Dauntless Units of World War II (1998) ~ Osprey
Review
+ TBF/TBM Avenger Units of World War
II (1999)
~ Osprey
Review
+ Wildcat: the F4F in World War II (2nd edition, 2001)
~ Amazon.com
Review
Clash of the Carriers (2005)
~ Amazon.com
Review
+ Pushing the Envelope: the Career of
Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion Carl (2nd edition, 2005) ~ Amazon.com
Review
Beyond Pearl Harbor:
the Untold Stories of Japan’s Naval
Airmen (pending, 2007)
~ Web site for the book: Pacific
Ghosts
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