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Featured Reviews

	The Battle For Wau by Phil Bradley. For the first time the full story of the battle at Wau is told from over 70 veterans from the campaign and on his own visits to the battlefield and area. Beginning with the early commando operations in Salamaua, the story unfolds with the burning of Wau, the clashes around Mubo, Japanese convoys to Lae and the United States aerial operations over Wau.
	Arawasi International Arawasi was a Japanese term meaning "Wild or Violent Eagles", used as a nickname given by the Japanese to aggressive fighter pilots. It is also chosen for this impressive magazine that covers Japanese aviation topics.

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Pacific War History & Campaigns

The First Team Pearl Harbor to Midway Lundstrom	The First Team And The Guadalcanal Campaign Lundstrom	Doomed At The Start William H. Bartsch Texas A&M University
The Forgotten Fifth Michael Claringbould Aerothentic Publications	Black Sunday Michael Claringbould Aerothentic Publications	Guadalcanal Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History
Forty of the Fifth Michael Claringbould Aerothentic Publications	Decision at Sea Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History	Carrier Strike Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History
Carrier Clash Invasion of Guadalcanal Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History	Handbook on Japanese Forces US War Department Louisiana State University	The Siege of Rabaul Henry Sakaida Phalanx Publishing
Eagle Against The Sun Ronald Spector Random House	Tales By Japanese Soldiers Nunneley and Tamayama Casell & Co	Fire In The Sky Eric Bergerud Westview Press
In The Service of The Emperor Edward J. Drea Bison Books Corp	MacArthur's Pearl Harbor: December 8th, 1941 William H. Bartsch Texas A&M Univeristy	Midway: The Japanese Story Fuchida & Okumiya Cassell & Co.
War Without Mercy Robert Dower Pantheon	Embracing Defeat Robert Dower W.W. Norton & Company	On Shaggy Ridge Philip Bradley Oxford University Press
Battle of the Bismarck Sea Lex McAulay St. Martins Press	By Sword And Fire The Destruction of Manila in WWII Alfonso J. Aluit Bookmark, Inc.	The Burma Road Donovan Webster Farr, Straus & Giroux
Hostages To Freedom The Fall of Rabaul Peter Stone	A Glorious Way To Die Battleship Yamato Russell Spurr	U-Boat Far From Home David Stevens Allen & Unwin
The Sacred Warriors Denis & Peggy Warner Nostrand Reinhold	MacArthur's Eagles Lex McAulay Naval Institue Press	Air To Air Chris Ridge Adventure Air
A Bastard Of A Place Peter Brune Allen & Unwin	US Marine Corps Pacific Theater Operations 1944-45 Osprey	Munda Trail Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History
Hidden Horrors Yukiko Tanaka Westview Press	Bloody Tarawa Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History	Japan Against Russia In The Sky of Nomonhan Dimitar Nedialkov
Strike And Return Cory Graff Specialty Press	The Ghost Mountain Boys James Campbell Crown	The Battle For Wau Phil Bradley Cambridge University Press

Pacific Aces, Art, Markings, Uniforms, Gear & Equipment

P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI John Stanaway	P-47 & P-51 Aces of Pacific and CBI John Stanaway	Wildcat Aces of WWII Barrett Tillman Osprey
Aces of the Rising Sun Henry Sakaida Osprey	Japanese Naval Aces Henry Sakaida Osprey	Japanese Army Aces Henry Sakaida Osprey
RAAF Camouflage & Markings 1939-1945 Geoffrey Pentland Kookaburra	B-24 Nose Art Directory Wallace R. Forman Specialty Pub	AVG Colours & Markings Terrill Clements Osprey
Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces, 1931-1945 Hata, Izawa, Shores Grub Street the Basement	Japanese Naval Aces & Fighter Units of WWII Hata, Izawa, Gorham Naval Institute Press	War In Pacific Skies Featuring the Aviation Art of Jack Fellows Motorbooks
Emblems of the Rising Sun Peter Scott Hikiki / Motorbooks	Four Aces Lex McAulay Banner Books	The Samurai Masao Satake, Masahiro Mino WAC
USMC Uniforms, Insignia & Personal Items of WWII Harlan Glenn	Special Naval Landing Force Uniforms & Equipment Nila, Rolfe	Japanese Naval Aviation Uniforms & Equipment Gary Nila
WWII Pacific War Eagles Ethell & Bodie Widewing Publications	Japanese Infantry Arms in WWII Ritta Nakanishi Dai Nippon Kaiga Co / Artbox	Japanese Military Sake Cups Dan King Schiffer

Pacific Aircraft Types, Ships

P-61 Black Widow Units of WWII Warren Thmpson Osprey Publishing	Queen of the Midnight Skies Pape, Harrison Schiffer	Pride of Seattle: First 300 B-17F Steve Birdsall Squadron / Signals
Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu Richard Buechel Schiffer Publishing	Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien Richard Buechel Schiffer Publishing	Mitsubishi Ki-46 Dinah by Martin Ferkl REVI Publications
Mitsubishi G4M Betty by Martin Ferkl REVI Publications	Mitsubishi Type 1 Rikko Units of World War 2 Osamu Tagaya, Osprey	Japanese Naval Air Force In Action Yohji Watanabe 2005
I-400 Japan's Secret Aircraft Carring Strike Submarine Sakaida, Nila, Takaki	Battlegrond Atlantic Richard N. Billings NAL Hardcover	Balloon Bomb Attacks on North America Robert C. Mikesh
Boeing B-17 1935-1985 Peter M. Bowers Museum of Flight Publications	Night Fighter Gekko Yoji Watanabe (Japanese text)	Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War Rene J. Francillon Naval Institute
Zero Robert C. Mikesh Motorbooks Int'l	Mitsubishi Zero-Sen Richard M. Bueschel Schiffer Publishing	Zero-sen yo yomigaere Nobuo Harada (Japanese Language)
3D CGI Zero Fighter Masaru Tochibayashi Futabasha	Moonlight Interceptor Robert C. Mikesh Osamu Tagaya	Vega Ventura John Stanaway Schiffer Publishing
Japanese Aircraft Code Names & Designations Robert C. Mikesh	Forgotten Fleet 2 Bill & Ruth Lunney Forfleet Publishing	Zero Fighter Maru

Pacific Units, Group Histories & Locations

Warpath Across The Pacific Lawrence J. Hickey International Research	Revenge of the Red Raiders Gaylor, Evans, Nelson, Hickey International Research	Legacy of the 90th BG Wiley O. Woods, Jr Turner Publishing
Fortress Against The Sun Gene Eric Salecker Da Capo Press	The Roarin' 20's History of 312th BG Russ Sturzebecker	Always Ready Tom Mcleod Museum of the Pacific
The Eight Ballers 8th Photo Recon Sqaudron John Stanaway, Bob Rocker Schiffer Publishing	At Close Quarters PT Boats in the USN Robert Bulkley USN Publications	Possum, Clovers & Hades 475th FG in WWII John Stanaway, Bob Rocker Schiffer Publishing
Dauntless Units of WWII Barrett Tillman Osprey	B-29 Hunters of the JAAF Sakaida & Takaki Osprey	Seek and Strike David J. Wilson Banner Books
P-39 Airacobra Units of WWII John Stanaway Osprey	Genda's Blade 343 Kokutai Japan's Squadron of Aces Henry Sakaida, Koji Takaki Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers	49th Fighter Group Ernest R. McDowell Squadron / Signals Pub.
Cobra In The Clouds John Stanaway	Kamikaze Raymond Lamont-Brown Cassell & Co	Black Cats and Dumbos WWII's Fighting PBYs Mel Crocker
Beau's Butchers & Boomerangs Mareeba Damian Waters	Island Encounters Lindstrom & White Smithsonian Institute	Protect And Avenge 49th FG in WWII John Stataway
On Wings We Conquer John Mitchell	Bravery Above Blunder John Coates Oxford University Press	On The Canal Ore J. Marion with Thomas Cuddihy & Edward Cuddiry
The Forgotten Heros VH-3 Donald Sweet DoGo Publishing	USMC Pacific Operations 44-45 Rottman Osprey	The Grim Reapers John P. Henebry Pictorial Histories Publishing
Cameras Over The Pacific Marine Photo Squadron 254 John G Bishop	The Big Death Geofrey White U of South Pacific	The Black Sheep Bruce Gamble Presido Press
Beaufighters In The Pacific Neville Parnell	We Flew Alone Alan C. Carey Schiffer Military History	Horn Island Vanessa Seekee
13th Fighter Command in WWII William Wolf Schiffer	Allied Air Transport Operations SWPA WWII Volume 1 Robert Kelly	Allied Air Transport Operations SWPA WWII Volume 2 Robert Kelly
Volcano Town The 1937-43 Rabaul Eruptions R. Johnson & N. Threlfall	Battleground Atlantic Richard Billings NAL

Allied Autobiographies, Biographies & Novels

Dauntless Marine Joseph Sailer Jr. Alexander S. White Pacifica Military History	The Jolly Rogers Tom Blackburn and VF-17 Tom Blackburn Pacifica Military History	Ace! A Marine Night-Fighter Pilot in WWII Bruce Porter & Eric Hammel Pacifica Military History
Preludes to Victory The Battle of Ormoc Bay William L. Griggs Atlantic Press	Nanette Her Pilot's Love Story Edwards Park Smithsonian Press	We Band of Brothers R.E. Peppy Blount Eakin Publications
Saipan - Oral Histories of the Pacific War Bruce Petty	DUTY Bob Green Paul Tibbets & Enola Gay	Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides Doubleday
Seeds of Hope William Sabel Purdue University Press	Behind Enemy Lines Roy C. Hunt University Press of Kentucky	Lapham's Raiders Robert Lapham University Press of Kentucky
Pacific Island Odyssey Carl R. Thien Wanpela Books	No Place For A Picnic Justin R. Taylan Wanpela Books	One Angle Left... by Jack Morris Canyon Creek Books
Memoir of A Bomber Pilot Robert Morgan New American Library	The Young Ones Erik Dyreborg iUniverse	John Glen: A Memoir John Glen, Nick Taylor Bantam Books
Blood On Borneo Jack Wong Sue Self-Published	Voices From The Pacific War Bruce Petty Naval Institute Press	Flyboys James Bradley Little Brown & Company
Kenneth N. Walker Martha Byrd Air University Press	Death is Lighter Than A Feather David Westheimer U of N Texas	The Luck Of The Draw Edward 'Ted' Sly Publishing Services
Flags of Our Fathers Bradley & Powers Bantam	Where They Lay Earl Swift Bantam Press	Bumitalag AVMedia
Greatest Generation Speaks Tom Brokaw Random House	Bolomen Lucky Guillermo AVMedia	The School That Fell From The Sky Fred Hargesheimer
Behind Enemy Lines Michael J. Freeman	Escape From Corregidor Edgar D. Whitcomb H Regnery Co	Shobun Michael Goodwin Stackpole Books
Damien Parer's War Neil McDonald Lothian Books	The Flying Circus James Wright The Lyons Press	The Last Great Ace Charles Martin Fruit Cove Publishing
I Was Lucky Wesley Dickinson Lighting Source	Jungle Fighters Jules Archer Jullian Messner	The Fight For New Guinea Patrick Robinson Random House, 1943
Dauntless Helldivers Harold Buell Crown	Secret War In The Pacific Peter Parsons PeterParsons	The Thin Red Line James Jones
Pacific Air Combat WWII Voices From The Past Henry Sakaida	New Guinea Engineer Gillian H. Shadbolt & Les Bell	From Up Over To Down Under And Back Jack Heyn
70,000 to One Quentin James Reynolds	The Raft Robert Turmbull Naval Institute Press	The Guns of Muschu Don Dennis Allen & Unwin
Bats Outa Hell Over Biak Max Ferguson Self Published	War Diary 1942 George Henry Johnston William Collins Pty Ltd	Ruff Stuff Tina Susedik with Norbert C. Ruff Documation, LLC
New Guinea Skies Wayne P. Rothgeb Iowa State University Press	Leyte Calling Joseph St, John The Vanguard Press	Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener
Helmet For My Pillow Robert Leckie Ibooks	We Who Are About To Die Lex McAulay Banner Books

POW (Prisoner of War) Autobiographies & Biographies

Devil At My Heels Louis Zamperini William Morrow	Prisonera's Base and Home Again James Benson	The Martyrs of Papua New Guinea Theo Aerts Kleinsasser
Horio You Next Die! Joseph Nason Pacific Rim Press	M.I.A. Over Rabaul South Pacific John Kepchia

Japanese Autobiographies, Biographies & Novels

Samurai! Saburo Sakai Pocket Press	Ôzora no samurai Saburo Sakai (Japanese language)	Winged Samurai Henry Sakaida Champlin Fighter Museum
No Surrender My Thirty - Year War Hiroo Onoda Naval Institute Press	Oba The Last Samurai Don Jones Presido Press	Naval Land Unit That Disappeared in the Jungle Tetsuo Watanabe National Library of Australia
Guadalcanal Shoichii Morii Self-Published	28 Years in the Guam Jungle Sankei Shimbun Fuji Terebi Tokubetsu Shuzaihan	The Niihau Incident Allan Beekman Heritage Press Pacific 1982
I-Boat Captain Zenji Orita Major Books	Japanese Destroyer Captain Tameichi Hara Ballentine Books	The Reluctant Admiral Hiroyuki Agawa Kodansha
Yamamoto Autopsy (Japanese language)	Saigo No Hikotei (The Last Flying Boat) Tsuneo Hitsuji	Papua Jin Mandol Akira Tokuno (Japanese language)
Samurai Zerosen Kisha kamera ga toraeta zerosentai hiwa Hajime Yoshida	Ballale Naval Engineering Group Kotaro Sato Purejidentosha	Admiral Jinichi Kusaka Nothing new on the Rabaul Front Jinichi Kusaka
Minami No Sora Ni Geta Haite Kaigun Suijouki-Tai Kuusenki Keiyu Takei

Pacific War Wrecks, Battlefields

Rust In Peace Bruce Adams Antipodean Publishers	Pacific Aircraft Wrecks And Where to Find Them Charles Darby Kookaburra	Pacific Island Battlegrounds WWII: Then & Now Earl Hinz Bess Press
WWII Wrecks of the Truk Lagoon Dan E. Bailey North Valley Diver	WWII Wrecks of Palau Dan E. Bailey North Valley Diver	WWII Remnants Guam & Mariana Dave Lotz Arizona Memorial Museum
A Missing Plane Susan Sheehan Berkley Books	The Searchers Jim Eames U of Queensland	The Whole Nine Yards John King Reed Publishing
Pacific War Images David Holdsworth Robert Brown & Ass.	The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal Robert Ballard Warner Books	Warbird Recovery Gordon Page iUniverse
Pacific Legacy Image and Memory from WWII Rex Smith, Gerald Meehl	Queensland Airfields WW2 - 50 Years On Roger R Marks R & J Marks	War of our Fathers Relics of Pacific Battlefields Richard Marin Barnes & Noble Books
Return to Midway Robert Ballard Madison Press Books	Broken Wings of the Samurai Robert Mikesh Airlife Publishing	Meatballs and Dead Birds James P. Gallagher `Stackpole Books
The Last New Guinea Salvage Pirate Fritz Herscheid	Blood and Iron Lex McAuley Arrow Books

CD-ROMs, Multimedia & Games

Pacific Ghosts WWII Aircraft Wrecks (CD-ROM)	Combat Flight Simulator 2 WWII Pacific Theater (PC Game)	Battlefield 1942 Pacific WWII Strategy (PC Game)
Medal of Honor Rising Sun WWII Pacific Theatre (Game)	Flight Manuals on CD (CD-ROM) Aircraft Flight Manuals	Pacific Fighters Pacific Flight Simulator (PC Game)
Buffie's Best P-38 Lightning CD-ROM & DVD

Videos & DVD

The Swamp Ghost (DVD) Pacific Ghosts	Iwo Jima: Memories in Sand (VHS) Land Locked Films	The Legacy of Truk Lagoon (VHS) Superior Home Video
A6M5 Zero (DVD) Roaring Glory Warbirds	P-47 Thunderbolt (DVD) Roaring Glory Warbirds	TBM Avenger (DVD) Roaring Glory Warbirds
P-40 Warhawk (VHS Video) Roaring Glory Warbirds	B-25 Mitchell (VHS Video) Roaring Glory Warbirds	Guadalcanal Island of Death (DVD) Timeless Video
Winged Ghosts of the Pacific Great White (VHS)	41st Fighter Squadron (VHS & DVD)	312th Bomb Group (VHS & DVD)
MIA General Walker (VHS & DVD)	Winged Ghosts of the Pacific (Video) Andrew Wight	Guadalcanal: Island of Death (DVD) Timeless Video
Australians At War (DVD)	Silent Warbirds (VHS) GAMM Films	Gusap 1944 (DVD-R) RareAviation
Corsair Vs. Zero (DVD-R) RareAviation	Perishable RUSH (DVD-R) RareAviation	Army Air Forces Pacific (DVD-R) Rare Aviation
SeaWolf Productions (CD/DVD) Shipwrecks of Bikini	The Defender (VHS) Canadian Television	B-25 Down: Hunt For A Hero (VHS) Dennis Kane
Guadalcanal Odyssey (VHS) VCI Video	NOVA B-29 Frozen In Time (VHS) VCI Video	Lagoon of Lost Ships (VHS) Jaques Cousteau
5th Air Force In Color (DVD) Aerothentic Publications	5th Air Force Newsreels (DVD) Aerothentic Publications	Damien Parer’s Kokoda Frontline (DVD) Reel
The Bomber Reef Walt Deas Seawest Productions	Last Mission of Black Jack Steve Birdstall (1986)	War Wrecks of the Coral Sea PBS Nature,2003 (VHS)
Last Flight Home Powers & O'Brien

Travel Guides

25 Best WWII Sites Pacific Theater Chuck Thompson	Diving & Snorkeling Papua New Guinea Bob Halstead	Lonley Planet Papua New Guinea (PNG) & Solomons Lonley Planet
World War II on the Web J. Douglas Smith Scholarly Resources	World War II on the Web J. Douglas Smith Scholarly Resources

Magazines

After The Battle British Magazine	VALOR / Ghost Wings Magazine History & Aviation Magazine	Arawasi International Japanese Aviation History
National Geographic Ghosts of War April 1988	Flightpath Australian Flight Magazine	Classic Wings NZ Warbirds Magazine

Movies

Movies About WWII Pacific
non-documentary & drama