The book recommendations and some of the text is mostly based on the bibliographical essay of Thomas Kuehn: The War in the Pacific 1941-1945 in the Cambridge History of the Second World War, Volume I. The game in the Background is Order of Battle: World War II and I play the Marines DLC Order of Battle: http://store.steampowered.com/app/312450/ US Marines DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/443620/ Mark Peattie; Edward Drea; Hans van de Ven: The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 Rana Mitter: Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 Mark Peattie: Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 Eric M. Bergerud: Fire in the Sky. The Air War in the South Pacific Robin Higham; Stephen Harris: Why Air Forces Fail Barrett Tillman: Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 Alan Zimm: Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions Alan Zimm: The Pearl Harbor Myth http://www.historynet.com/pearl-harbor Gordon Prange: At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Jonathan Parshall; Anthony Tully: Shattered Sword – The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway Gordon Prange: Miracle at Midway Craig L. Symonds: The Battle of Midway Richard Frank: Guadacanal: The definitive account of the Landmark Battle H.P. Willmott: The Battle of Leyte gulf. The Last Fleet Action Milan N. Vega: The Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Exectuion Thomas M. Huber: Japan’s Battle of Okinawa, April-June 1945 (Leavenworth Papers Number 18) http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/BattleofOkinawa.pdf Bill Sloan: The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945 – The Last Epic Struggle of World War II Robin L. Rielly: Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships: Okinawa, 1945 Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim: Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 Eugene B. Sledge: With the old Breed: At