From Mon Sep 15 14:50:21 1997
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>Subject: Re: Books – which are good?
>From: Stephen F Dent
>To: BWV_WIESBADEN@t-online.de (Tim Lanzendoerfer), consim-l@listserv.uni-c.dk,
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>I can recommend both Ugaki¹s Fading Victory and Fahey¹s Pacific War Diary as
>fascinating accounts of the Pacific naval war from a first hand perspective,
>but from two very different standpoints. The one being a humble gunner
>aboard a light cruiser, as concerned about his meals and the inescapable
>heat as anything else; the other one of the highest commanders in a navy at
>first seemingly invincible and then increasingly at a loss as to how to
>reverse the tide of war. It is a while since I¹ve read either, but I can
>recall in particular Fahey¹s vivid and quite horrifying account of a
>Kamikaze attack, and Ugaki¹s description of the air attack that cost Admiral
>Yamamoto his life.
>Ugaki spends a great deal of time ascribing Japan¹s predicaments to a lack
>of Œfighting spirit¹, which has always seemed to me to have been one thing
>that the Imperial Navy had in abundance, and not to poor planning,
>leadership and equipment. He does come across as a surprisingly sympathetic
>character, much given to poetic musings, scathing in his criticisms of other
>commanders and with a clear, if grudging, admiration for his foe.
>Fahey offers a less complicated view, but is no less worthwhile a read,
>being a very clear account of what it must have been like fighting in a
>relentless war in far from hospitable conditions.
>Of the others I can only comment that I have always found Dan Van Der Vat¹s
>books immensely readable, if prone to the odd error.
>———-
>From: BWV_WIESBADEN@t-online.de (Tim Lanzendoerfer)
>To: consim-l@listserv.uni-c.dk, mahan@microwrks.com,
>marhst-l@post.queensu.ca,wwii-l@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
>Subject: Books – which are good?
>Date: Sun, 14 Sep 97 16:19 MET DST
>
>Ladies and Gentlemen,
>I did a search on books today, and came up with some quite interesting
>titles.
>However, I do not know all of these books. I would like to list some here,
>so as
>to get some additional thoughts on them. Are they worth their price, did you
>
>like them?
>Here we go:
>
>Bergerud, Eric, Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
>
>Can someone tell me the title and ISBN of Clay Blair’s The US submarine war
>against Japan?
>
>Brown, David, Warship Losses of World War Two
>
>Fahey, J., Pacific War Diary, 1942 – 1945
>
>Francillon, Rene, Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War
>
>Ienaga, S., Pacific War, 1931 – 1945
>
>Jentschura, H., Warships of the Imperial japanese Navy, 1869 – 1945
>
>Lawson, R., Carrier Air War: In Original WWII Color
>
>Lundstrom, J., The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor
>to…
>
>Lundstrom, J., The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign
>
>Potter, E., Sea Power, A Naval History
>
>Prados, J., Combined Fleet Decoded
>
>Rohwer, J., Chronology of the War at Sea 1939 – 1945
>
>Sakai, Saburo, Samurai!
>(WW2-L: This was written together with Martin Caidin.)
>
>Spector, Ronald, Eagle against the Sun
>
>Tillman, Barrett, Corsair: F4u in World War II and Korea
>
> Hellcat: the F6F in World War II
>
> Hellcat Aces of World War II
>
> The Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War II
>
> Vought F4u Corsair: Warbird Tech Series
>
> Wildcat: The F4F in World War II
>
> Wildcat Aces of the Pacific
>
>Ugaki, Matome, Fading Victory, the Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941 –
>1945
>
>van der Vat, Dan, The Pacific Campaign
>
>Whitley, M.J, Cruisers of World War II
>
>
>
>Tim Lanzendoerfer | The US Navy in
>Amateur Naval Historian | the Pacific War
>Email:BWV_Wiesbaden@t-online.de | 1941 – 1945
>Go to: >>>>>>http://www.microworks.net/pacific/
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