Those titles marked with an asterisk are particularly suited to younger readers.
Allen, Thomas B., and Norman Polmar. Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
* Atwood, Kathryn J. Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011.
Aylward, Gladys. The Little Woman. Chicago: Moody, 1970.
Benjamin, Robert Spiers, ed. Eye Witness by Members of the Overseas Press Club of America. New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1940.
Binkowski, Edna Bautista. Code Name: High Pockets; True Story of Claire Phillips, an American Mata Hari and the WWII Resistance Movement in the Philippines. Limay, Bataan: Valour, 2006.
Bitton-Jackson, Livia. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust. New York: Simon Pulse, 1997.
Breu, Mary. Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese P.O.W. Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Books, 2009.
Burgess, Alan. The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward. London: Reprint Society, 1957.
* Caravantes, Peggy. The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy. Chicago Review Press, 2015.
Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. New York: Penguin, 1998.
Chapelle, Dickey. What’s a Woman Doing Here? A Reporter’s Report on Herself. New York: William Morrow, 1962.
Colijn, Helen. Song of Survival: Women Interned. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1995.
*Colman, Penny. Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories About Women Who Made a Difference. New York: Henry Holt, 2006.
Cook, Haruko Taya and Theodore F. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press, 1992.
* DeWitt, Lieutenant Gill, USN. The First Navy Flight Nurse on a Pacific Battlefield: A Picture Story of a Flight to Iwo Jima. Fredricksburg, TX: The Admiral Nimitz Foundation, 1983.
Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
*Farrell, Mary Cronk. Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Felton, Mark. The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books, 2009.
Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Random House, 1999.
Garofolo, John. Dickey Chapelle Under Fire: Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015.
Harmsen, Peter. Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2013.
Hastings, Max. Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Henson, Maria Rosa. Comfort Woman: A Filipina’s Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
* Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive. New York: Delacort, 2014.
* Hollihan, Kerrie Logan. Reporting Under Fire: 16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photojournalists. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014.
Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Hu, Hua-ling. American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Hu, Hua-ling and Zhang Lian-hong, eds. The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-Fang. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Ishigaki, Ayako. Restless Wave: My Life in Two Words: A Memoir. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2004.
Kaminski, Theresa. Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II. New York: Oxford, 2016.
Kaminski, Theresa. Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Kathigasu, Sybil. No Dram of Mercy. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Kathigasu, Sybil, Chin Peng, Norma Miraflor, and Ian Ward. Faces of Courage: A Revealing Historical Appreciation of Colonial Malaya’s Legendary Kathigasu Family. Singapore: Media Masters, 2006.
Kelly, Clara Olink. The Flamboya Tree: A Family’s War-Time Courage. London: Arrow Books, 2002.
Knox, Donald. Death March: The Survivors of Bataan. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
Krancher, Jan A. The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies 1942–1949: Survivors Accounts of Japanese Invasion and Enslavement of Europeans and the Revolution That Created Free Indonesia. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996.
Li, Peter, ed. Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 2003.
Lukacs, John D. Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War. New York: New American Library, 2011.
MacDonald, Elizabeth P. Undercover Girl. New York: MacMillan, 1947.
Manners, Norman G. Bullwinkel: The True Story of Vivian Bullwinkel, a Young Army Nursing Sister Who Was the Sole Survivor of a World War Two Massacre by the Japanese. Western Australia: Hesperian, 2008.
Matsuda, Mary Gruenewald. Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps (The Young Reader’s Edition). Troutdale, OR: NewSage, 2010.
McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Mitter, Rana. Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II: 1937–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Norman, Elizabeth M. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
*Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference. New York: Scholastic, 2006.
* Overy, Richard. War in the Pacific. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2010.
Ostroff, Roberta. Fire in the Wind: The Life of Dickey Chapelle. Annapolis: Bluejacket Books, 1992.
Panlilio, Yay. The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Phillips, Claire (“High Pockets”), and Myron B. Goldsmith. Manila Espionage. Hillsboro, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1947.
Prange, Gordon W. Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Ramsey, Edwin Price, and Stephen J. Rivele. Lieutenant Ramsey’s War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander. New York: Knightsbridge, 1990.
Read, Dorothy and Ilse Evelijn Veere Smit. End the Silence. Green-bank, WA: Double-Isle, 2011.
Rees, Laurence. Horror in the East. London: BBC Worldwide, Ltd., 2001.
Rodriggs, Lawrence Reginald. We Remember Pearl Harbor: Honolulu Civilians Recall the War Years, 1941–1945. Newark, CA: Communications Concepts, 1991.
Romulo, Carlos P. I Saw the Fall of the Philippines. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1944.
Romulo, Carlos P. I See the Philippines Rise. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1946.
Ruff-O’Herne, Jan. Fifty Years of Silence: Comfort Woman of Indonesia. Sydney: Editions Tom Thompson, 1994.
Shaw, Ian W. On Radji Beach: The Story of the Australian Nurses After the Fall of Singapore. Sydney: MacMillan Australia, 2010.
* Sheinkin, Steve. Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon. New York: Roaring Books Press, 2012.
Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission. New York: Random House, 2001.
Smith, Colin. Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II. London: Penguin Books, 2005.
Smith, Wilda M. and Eleanor A. Bogart. The Wars of Peggy Hull: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1991.
Spector, Ronald H. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Free Press, 1985.
Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. 2 vols. New York: Random House, 1970.
Utinsky, Margaret. Miss U. San Antonio, TX: Naylor, 1948.
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Williams, Denny. To the Angels. San Francisco: Denson, 1985.
Yoshiaki, Yoshimi. Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II. Translated by Suzanne O’Brien. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Zamperini, Louis, with David Rensin. Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian’s Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.
Zich, Arthur. The Rising Sun. Pueblo, CO: Time Life Books, 1977.
Chapelle, Dickey. Papers. Wisconsin Historical Society.
Choy, Elizabeth. Interview, accession number 597. Oral History Centre, National Archives of Singapore. www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/search-result?search-type=advanced&accessionNo=000597.
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. www.trumanlibrary.org.
Kendeigh, Jane. Papers. Private family collection.
Vautrin, Minnie. Papers. Yale Divinity School Library.
“Comparing the American Inter[n]ment of Japanese-, German-, and Italian-Americans During World War II.” Institute for Research of Expelled Germans. http://expelledgermans.org/germaninternment.htm.
“MacArthur’s Speeches.” American Experience. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/filmmore/reference/primary/macspeech02.html.
Senatore, Holly. “Bushido: The Valor of Deceit.” Military History Online. www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/bushido.aspx.
Sobocinski, Andre. “Angels of the Airfields: Navy Air Evacuation Nurses of World War II.” Naval Historical Foundation. www.navyhistory.org/2013/05/angels-of-the-airfields-navy-air-evacuation-nurses-ww2/.
Sutter, Janet. “Angel of Mercy Kept Wings: WWII Nurse Still Dotes on Patients.” San Diego Union, March 24, 1985.