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The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Unauthorized Looks at Pacific War Books

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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4.8654 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth and Bill fulfill another viewership request as they sit down and give a list of some of their top WWII Pacific theater-related books. This list is not in any order, nor is it comprehensive, but off the top of our heads. Hopefully, this will help some of you guys fill up your libraries. Next week we get back to the war. Here is our list of books: -Run Silent Run Deep (Edward Beach) -Silent Victory (Clay Blair) -Wahoo & Clear the Bridge (Richard O’Kane) -War in the Boats (William Ruhe) -Thunder Below (Eugene Fluckey) -Ghosts of Bungo Suido (P. T. Deutermann) -Submarine Operations in World War II (Theodore Roscoe) -The Last Patrol (Harry Holmes) -Nimitz (E.B. Potter) -Nimitz at War (Craig Symonds) -Mastering the Art of Command (Trent Hone) -Master of Seapower (Thomas Buell) -Quiet Warrior (E.B. Potter) -The Admirals (Walter Borneman) -Indianapolis (Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic) -Clash of the Carriers (Barrett Tillman) -Joe Rochefort’s War (Elliot Carlson) -And I was There (Edwin Layton) -Shattered Sword-Jon Parshall/Tony Tully -Surigao Strait-Tony Tully -The Japanese Navy in WWII as told by Japanese Naval Officers-David Evans -Fighting in the Dark-Trent Hone -Saipan-James Hallas -The Devil's Anvil-James Hallas -Japan’s Imperial Army:Its Rise and Fall-Ed Drea -The Knights of Bushido-Edward Russell -Island Infernos-John McManus -Fleet at Flood Tide-Hornfischer -Utmost Savagery-COL Alexander -Target Rabaul-Bruce Gamble -Fortress Rabaul-Gamble -Invasion Rabaul-Gamble -Pacific War Diary-James Fahey -Race of Aces-John Bruning -Day of Infamy-Walter Lord -Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors-Hornfischer -Neptune’s Inferno-Hornfischer -Enterprise-Tillman -Whirlwind-Tillman -Pacific Crucible-Toll -Conquering Tide-Toll -Twilight of the Gods-Toll -Battleship Commander-Paul Stillwell -The Big E- Stafford -Hell from the Heavens-John Wukovits -Battle for Hell’s Island-Steve Moore -Pacific Payback-Steve Moore -Guadalcanal-Rich Frank -Downfall-Rich Frank -Tower of Skulls-Rich Frank -Myth and the Greatest Generation-Kenneth Rose -Soldier from the War Returning-Thomas Childers -Their Backs Against the Sea-Bill Sloan -Helmet for my Pillow-Leckie -Rampage-James Scott -Black Snow-Scott -One Square Mile of Hell-John Wukovits -Tin Can Titans-Wukovits -Ghost Mountain Boys-James Campbell -Wake of the Wahoo-Sterling -Pig Boats-Theodore Roscoe -The Old Breed-Sledge -The First Team-John Lundstrom -The First Team at Guadalcanal-Lundstrom -Black Shoe Carrier Admiral-Lundstrom -Fading Victory-Matome Ugaki #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #usnavy #usa #usarmy #medalofhonor #enterprise #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #cv6 #midway #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #worldwar2 #usnavy #usnavyseals #usmc #usmarines #saipan #usa #usarmy #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #battleship #battleships #ussenterprise #aircraftcarriers #museum #hollywood #movie #movies #books

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 319 of the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War podcast.

0:20.0

My name is Seth Periden, historian and deputy director of the Missypionauthorized history of Pacific War podcast. My name is Seth

0:21.3

Perrin, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum of Year of Camp Shelby.

0:25.3

And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy captain Bill Tote, former skipper

0:29.6

of the Fast Tech submarine, USS, Indianapolis, common or submarine squad, and three in Pearl Harbor,

0:33.8

and many other postings. How are you this very brisk morning in Mississippi, Bill?

0:39.3

Yeah, it's a brisk 78 degrees in Florida. I am not complaining. Yeah. I don't mind,

0:49.2

Nicole, whether it's the freaking 30 mile an hour gusting winds that are a bit of an issue this morning particularly.

0:56.5

But we didn't.

0:58.1

I grew up in the north where we would have lake effect snow from essentially from November to February every year.

1:07.0

And, you know, up in Youngstown, Ohio.

1:09.4

And I do not miss it. I'm not one of those that

1:13.6

needs four seasons. I'm perfectly good in tropical climates.

1:18.6

I do like to break out the jackets every now and then, but we don't get too much of an

1:23.3

opportunity to do it, but we have this winter anyway, I should say. So before we get started,

1:29.2

we want to do as we always do and ask you to like and subscribe to our channel as it helps

1:32.6

other people find our stuff. If you have, thank you. If you haven't, please do so. So on with

1:38.2

this week's show. If you recall last week, Bill, obviously you will recall. We talked about movies. We've been, we've been

1:45.3

having a lot of requests over the last couple of years to put together a list of movies that we

1:50.7

would recommend, which is what we did last week. Another thing that we've had people, a lot of

1:55.3

people ask, is to put together a list of books. We will return to our regularly scheduled, regularly scheduled

2:02.0

programming next week. However, but we're going to cover another viewer request today. Bill,

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