Bibliography: Battle of Okinawa
Higa, Tomiko and Britton, Dorothy. Girl with the White Flag. Kodan-Sha America, Inc., 2003.
Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, Tomiko Higa tells her own story of survival on the battlefields of Okinawa, Japan. This is an inspiring, unforgettable true tale of one child whose will to live and whose determination never to give up hope lets her triumph over the tragedies of war.
Subject(s): Okinawa, MIS
Feifer, George. Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.
Tennozan covers the battle of Okinawa, the last major campaign of World War II and the largest land-sea-air engagement in History. In examining the disastrous collision of three disparate cultures - American, Japanese, and Okinawan - this book provides an unforgettable picture of men at war and also the context for understanding one of the most ominous events of this century: the decision to drop the atom bomb.
Yahara, Hiromichi. The Battle for Okinawa. Translated by Roger Pineau and Masatoshi Uehara. New York: J. Wiley, 1995.
Colonel Yahara was the strategist and executor of the entire Japanese defense during the bloody military encounter which lasted from April to July 1945, the last battle in the Pacific Theater during WWII. It was Yahara who proposed a war of attrition, unique in the history of Japanese WWII island defenses and he was the only high-ranking officer to leave Okinawa without committing suicide. In this riveting book, Yahara presents an illuminating portrait of the final anguish of the Japanese high command.
Tsukiyama, Ted T. The Battle of Okinawa Revisited. Unpublished manuscript.
This manuscript is comprised of five parts: the battle, the Japanese soldier, the Nisei MIS linguists, the sacrifice of Okinawan civilians and the aftermath of war.
Appleman, Roy E., et al. Okinawa: The Last Battle (The War in the Pacific). University Press of the Pacific, 2005.
Combat historians of the 1st Information and Historical Service, Tenth Army, were dispatched to accompany troops into combat to prepare a comprehensive military account of military activities.
Sources include manuscript histories of the major Army and Marine units taking part in the action, interviews and official records, including Japanese records and prisoner of war interrogations. The largest part of the narrative of combat on Okinawa is based on the histories of the combat divisions written by combat historians in the field. Photographs also included.Subject(s): MIS, Okinawa