Further your studies!

1. The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician by Michihiko Hachiya, Director, Hiroshima Communications Hospital

Hiroshima for Global Peace

Japan At War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook & Theodore F. Cook


2. Night of the Long Knives

Jablonsky, David. “Röhm and Hitler: The Continuity of Political-Military Discord.” Journal of Contemporary History 23, no. 3 (July 1, 1988): 367–86.

Maracin, Paul. The Night of the Long Knives: Forty-Eight Hours That Changed the History of the World. Guilford, CT: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Incorporated, 2007.


3. The Great Emu War

Murray Johnson (2006) ‘Feathered foes’: Soldier settlers and Western Australia's ‘Emu War’ of 1932, Journal of Australian Studies, 30:88, 147-157.



5. Battle of Manila (1899)

120 years ago: Diaries describe the start of the Filipino-American War, February 4, 1899 - The Philippine Diary Project

Linn, Brian McAllister. The Philippine War: 1899-1902. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

“Alexandria Gazette 6 February 1899 — Virginia Chronicle: Digital Newspaper Archive.” Accessed August 20, 2022. https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=AG18990206.1.2&srpos=3&e=01-01-1899-20-02-1899--en-20--1--txt-txIN-manila-------.

De Quesada, A. M. The Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1902. Men-at-Arms 437. Oxford, UK ; New York: Osprey Pub, 2007.

“February 4, 1899: The Start of the Philippine-American War and Patron-Client Fighting | On Point | Command Posts,” March 16, 2013.


6. The Soviet-Chinese Spy Wars

Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance - Nicholas Khoo

How CIA & Chinese PLA joined hands in secret Cold War op to snoop on Soviet Union nukes (theprint.in)

https://titanmissilemuseum.org/about/cold-war-timeline/

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/how-stalin-elevated-the-chinese-communist-party-to-power-xinjiang-1949

The Soviet-Chinese Spy Wars in the 1970s: What KGB Counterintelligence Knew, Part I

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/soviet-chinese-spy-wars-1970s-what-kgb-counterintelligence-knew-part-i


7. Unconventional Military Vehicles

Crow, Duncan (1970). AFV's of World War One.

The French And Their Anti-Tank Gun Vespa Scooters | SOFREP

The history of Vespa: from its origins in 1946 to the myth

This Incredible Plane: Goodyear Inflatoplane - Plane & Pilot Magazine

Novgorod

Simms' Motor War Car: The World's First Armored Automobile

https://web.archive.org/web/20120713030400/http://www.armyavnmuseum.org/museum/collection/rw4.htm


8. Cryptology - Operation Magic

Cipher Machines

Magic | Operations & Codenames of WWII

Farago, Ladislas, The Broken Seal: The Story of Operation Magic and the Pearl Harbor Disaster. Random House. New York, NY 1967.

Friedman, William F. Certain Aspects of "MAGIC'' in the Cryptological Background of the Various Official Investigations into the Atuack on Pearl Harbor. PDF. National Security Administration, 1957.

The Washington Naval Conference, 1921–1922. Milestones: 1921–1936 - Office of the Historian

"Home." National Security Agency | Central Security Service


9. Daggers of the Sicarii

Brighton, Mark Andrew. The Sicarii in Josephus's Judean War Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.

Josephus, Flavius. THE WARS OF THE JEWS OR HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. Translated by William Whiston. Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg. Accessed September 20, 2022. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2850/2850-h/2850-h.htm.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2015. THE SICARII IN MASADA — GLORY OR INFAMY?

Sidney B. Hoenig. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23256300

Zeitlin, S. “Zealots and Sicarii.” Journal of Biblical Literature 81, no. 4 (December 1962): 395-98. https://doi.org/10.2307/3265095.


10. A History of Military Chow

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/anzac/biscuit

Australian WWII rationing

https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/work-for-victory/housewives-to-action/food-rationing/

https://www.army.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/operational_ration_o2_0.pdf

Barker, A. J. Japanese Army Handbook, 1939-1945. New York, NY: Hippocrene Books, 1979.

Cook, Haruko Taya, and Theodore Failor Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. London: Phoenix, 2000.

18th Century Soldier’s Rations - Cooking Series at Jas Townsend and Son S1E1, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUt1ZHs3wQ8.


11. WWII: Battle of Okinawa Part I

Appleman, Roy E., James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, and John Stevens. United States Army in World War II The War in the Pacific Okinawa: The Last Battle. History.army.mil. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1948. https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/index.htm#contents.

Giangreco, D. M. Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan 1945-1947. Read.amazon.com. Naval Institute Press, 2020. https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B07FRJGY4R&language=en-US.

Head, William. “Raymond Spruance.” World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. ABC-CLIO Solutions, 2021. worldatwar2-abc-clio-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/Search/Display/872790.

Huber, Thomas M. Okinawa 1945. Havertown, PA: Casemate Pub., 2003.


12. WWII: Battle of Okinawa Part II

Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan. “Warriors of Word and Sword: The Battle of Okinawa, Media Coverage, and Truman's Reevaluation of Strategy in the Pacific.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 23, no. 4 (2016): 334–67. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26549190.

Sugar Loaf Hill, Hill 52. NPS.gov - Marines in World War II Commemorative Series. National Park Service. Accessed September 19, 2021. https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/npswapa/extcontent/usmc/pcn-190-003135-00/images/fig44.jpg.

Task Force 58. Taskforce58.Org. Accessed September 19, 2021. https://www.taskforce58.org/task-force-58-task-force-38/.

Yahara, Hiromichi, and Gibney Frank B. The Battle for Okinawa. New York: Wiley, 1997.