William Leahy Papers
One of the interesting elements of doing research on Leahy was that his personal papers are spread around different archives. In the end notes I use the following notations to list them.
Leahy Diary: William D. Leahy Papers, Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, DC. The diary is noted two ways. Through 1934 it is noted by volume and page number, as Leahy recorded events very unevenly. Sometimes whole years would be covered in a page or two, with no reference to specific dates. From 1934 onward, the diary is noted by date. When quoted in the text, the diary is included in its actual language, complete with grammatical and spelling mistakes.
Leahy LC: William D. Leahy Papers, Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, DC. There is a small collection of different Leahy papers here, other than the Diary.
Leahy NHHC: William D. Leahy Papers, Operational Archives Branch, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, DC. These papers are made up of two distinct possessions. There are hard copies of Leahy’s official papers, many from his time as chief of staff to the commander in chief. There are also microfilm copies of Leahy’s more personal papers, the hard copies of which are housed in the Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
Leahy JCS: Records of the Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff: Chairman’s File: Admiral Leahy 1942–1948: US National Archives and Records Association (NARA), College Park, Maryland, RG 218. An underutilized source base, not just about Leahy but for understanding the US military in World War II. These are Leahy’s files as chairman on the Joint Chiefs and show his central role in controlling the flow of information from the top of the US military to the White House.
US Government Papers
(US)
Annual Reports: Commander of the Battle Force (US National Archives and Records Association [NARA], National Archives Building, Washington, DC).
Central Intelligence Agency Records (US National Archives and Records Association [NARA], College Park, MD), RG 263.
General Board Papers, Subject Files, Navy Department (US National Archives and Records Association [NARA], National Archives Building, Washington, DC).
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS). An invaluable collection of US government records, which includes the official transcripts from all the grand strategy conferences. They can be accessed online at: https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/frus/.
War Department Historical File, Hereafter WD Historical (US National Archives and Records Association [NARA], College Park, MD).
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Minutes of Meetings 1942–1945: Hereafter JCS Minutes.
Combined Chiefs of Staff, Minutes of Meetings, 1942–1945. Hereafter CCS.
(UK)
Cabinet Office Papers (Cab), National Archives, Kew Gardens, UK.
Personal Papers
Dean Acheson Mss., Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Independence, MO.
Henry A. Arnold Mss., Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, DC.
Bernard Baruch Mss., Princeton University, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, NJ.
Vannevar Bush Mss., Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, DC.
Winston Churchill Mss., Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, and Online.
Clark Clifford Mss., Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Independence, MO.
Sir Andrew Cunningham Mss., British Library, London, UK.
George Elsey Mss. (Elsey Mss), Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Independence, MO.
James Forrestal Mss., Princeton University, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, NJ.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted Mss., Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY.
Arthur Harris Mss., RAF Museum Archives, London.
Harry Hopkins Mss., Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY.
Ernest King Mss., Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, DC.
Arthur Krock Mss., Princeton University, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, NJ.
George Marshall Mss., George C. Marshall Foundation, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA.
H. Freeman Matthews Mss., Princeton University, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, NJ.
Henry Morgenthau Mss., Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY.
Robert Patterson Mss., Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, DC.
Sir Charles Portal Mss., Christ Church Library, Oxford.
Eleanor Roosevelt Mss., Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY.
Franklin Roosevelt Mss., Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY. (A large selection of these, including the president’s most confidential files from the war, are now online through: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502.)
John C. Slessor Mss., National Archives, UK (part of Air Ministry Archives).
Carl Spaatz Mss., Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, DC.
Harry Truman Presidential Papers, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Independence, MO.
Oral Histories
Columbia Oral: These are transcripts of interviews held at the Library of Columbia University, New York, NY. Some are available online, but others must be consulted in the archive itself: http://library.columbia.edu/locations/ccoh.html.
NHHC Oral: These are transcripts from the Library of the Operational Archives Branch, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, DC. These are transcripts of interviews with a large number of US Navy officers.
Truman Oral: Harry Truman Presidential Library, Independence MO, NARA. These are transcripts of interviews done with a wide range of personalities with experience of the Truman administration. They are all accessible online at: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/oral_his.htm.
Selected Books and Articles
Books
Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years at the State Department. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.
Adams, Henry A. Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985.
Adelman, Jonathan R. Hitler and His Allies in World War II. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Albion, Robert G. Makers of Naval Policy, 1798–1947. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1980.
Alperovitz, Gar. Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam, The Use of the Atomic Bomb and American Confrontation with Soviet Power. New York: Pluto Press, 1994.
Asbell, Bernard, ed. Mother and Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982.
Ayers, Eben A., and Robert H. Ferrell. Truman in the White House: The Diary of Eben A. Ayers. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1991.
Baer, George. One Hundred Years of Seapower. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Barlow, Jeffrey G. Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945–1950. Washington, DC: Department of the Navy, 1994.
Barnhart, Michael A. Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Baruch, Bernard. The Public Years. London: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.
Beruff, Jorge Rodríguez. Strategy as Politics: Puerto Rico on the Eve of the Second World War. San Juan: Universidad de Puerto Rico Press, 2007.
——— and Jose L. Bolivar Fresneda, eds. Islands at War: Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
Bishop, Jim. FDR’s Last Year: April 1944–April 1945. New York: Pocket Books, 1975.
Bland, Larry, ed. The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, volume 3. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Bogle, Lori Lyn, ed. The Cold War, volume 2. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Bohlen Charles. Witness to History: 1929–1969. New York: Norton, 1973.
Bostdorff, Denise M. Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
Bradford, James, ed. Makers of the American Naval Tradition, 1880–1930. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
Brooks, John. Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control. London: Routledge, 2005.
Brown, Constantine. The Coming of the Whirlwind, 1914–1952. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1964.
Buell, Thomas. Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Building the Navy’s Bases in World War II: History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps, 1940–1946. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
Bullitt, Orville, ed. For the President Personal and Secret: Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and William C. Bullitt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1970.
Byrnes, James. Speaking Frankly. New York: Harper Brothers, 1947.
Campbell, Thomas M., and George C. Herring, eds. The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 1943–1946. New York: New Viewpoints, 1975.
Chappell, John D. Before the Bomb: How America Approached the End of the Pacific War. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1997.
Chisholm, Donald. Waiting for Dead Men’s Shoes, Origins and Development of the US Navy’s Personnel System, 1793–1941. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Churchill, Paul Addison. The Unexpected Hero. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Churchill, Winston. The Second World War, volume 4. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1953.
Clifford, Clark. Counsel to the President: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1991.
Coletta, Paolo E. American Secretaries of the Navy, volume 2. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1980.
Condit, Kenneth. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Policy, volume 2, 1947–1949. Washington, DC: Joint History Office, 1996.
Cook, James F. Carl Vinson: Patriarch of the Armed Forces. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984.
Costigliola, Frank. Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Shaped the Cold War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Cross, Graham. The Diplomatic Education of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882–1933. London: Palgrave, 2012.
Dallek, Robert. Franklin Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Danchev, Alex. Establishing the Anglo-American Alliance: The Second World War Diaries of Brigadier Vivian Dykes. London: Brasseys, 1990.
——— and Daniel Todman, eds. War Diaries, 1939–1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke. London: Phoenix Press, 2002.
Daniels, Jonathan. The Man from Independence. London: Victor Gollancz, 1951.
Dilks, David. Churchill and Company: Allies and Rivals in War and Peace. London: I. B. Tauris, 2012.
Donovan, Robert J. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry Truman, 1945–1948. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
Ehrman, John. Grand Strategy, volume 4. London: HMSO, 1956.
Einolf, Christopher J. America in the Philippines, 1899–1902: The First Torture Scandal. New York: Palgrave, 2014.
Elsey, George M. An Unplanned Life: A Memoir by George McKee Elsey. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005.
Ferrell, Robert H. The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944–1945. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998.
———. Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.
———. Truman and Pendergast. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
———, ed. Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
Freidel, Frank. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny. Boston: Little, Brown 1990.
Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Penguin, 2001.
Freud, Sigmund, and William Bullitt. Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
———, et al., eds. Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Geisst, Charles R. Encyclopedia of American Business History. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
Gellman, Irwin F. Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1995.
Germany and the Second World War, volume 6. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Giangreco, D. M. Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009.
Gilbert, Martin. “Never Despair”: Winston S. Churchill, 1945–1965. London: Heinemann, 1988.
Goldstein, Erik, and John Maurer, eds. The Washington Conference, 1921–22: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor. London: Routledge, 1994.
Goodwin,Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt—The Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Harper, John Lamberton. The Cold War. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Hart, Justin. Empire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of US Foreign Policy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hass, Lawrence J. Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg and the Partnership That Created the Free World. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2016.
Hall, Christopher. Britain, America and Arms Control, 1921–1937. New York: Palgrave, 1987.
Harriman, W. Averell, and Elie Abel. Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin. New York: Random House, 1975.
Hearn, Chester G. Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea. London: Stackpole, 2005.
Heinrichs, Waldo. The Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Heiss, Mary Ann, and Michael Hogan, eds. Origins of the National Security State and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2015.
Herken, Gregg. The Winning Weapon, The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945–1950. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1988.
Hone, Thomas C., Norman Friedman, and Marj D. Mandeles. American and British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919–1941. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
——— and Trent Hone. Battle Line: The United States Navy, 1919–1939. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
Howard, Michael. Grand Strategy, volume 4. London: HMSO, 1972.
Hull, Cordell. The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, volume 1. New York: Macmillan, 1948.
Husain, Aiyaz. Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Visions of the Post-War World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Irwin, Manley. Silent Strategists: Harding, Denby and the US Navy’s Trans-Pacific Offensive, World War II. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2013.
Jackson, Julian. De Gaulle. London: Haus Publishing, 2003.
———. France, the Dark Years, 1940–1944. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Jeans, Roger B. The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947: The Letters and Diary of Colonel John Hart Caughey. Plymouth, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011.
Jordan, Jonathan W. American Warlords: How Roosevelt’s High Command Led America to Victory in World War II. New York: Dutton Caliber, 2015.
Karsten, Peter. The Naval Aristocracy: The Golden Age of Annapolis and the Emergence of Modern American Navalism. New York: The Free Press, 1972.
Kimball, Warren. The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Statesman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
King, Ernest, and Walter Muir Whitehill. Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record. New York: Norton, 1952.
Knox, Dudley W. A History of the United States Navy. New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1936.
Kuehn, John T. Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet That Defeated the Japanese Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008.
Lacey, Michael James, ed. The Truman Presidency. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Larrabee, Eric. Commander in Chief: Franklin Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War. New York: HarperCollins, 1987.
Lash, Joseph P. Eleanor and Franklin, The Story of their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers. New York: New American Library, 1971.
Laub, Thomas. After the Fall: German Policy in Occupied France, 1940–1944. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Leahy, William. I Was There. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950.
Leffler, Melvyn. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.
Leffler, Melvyn, and Odd Arne Westad. The Cambridge History of the Cold War, volume 1. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Leighton, Richard, and Robert Coakley. Global Logistics and Strategy, 1940–1943. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1955.
Levin, Linda L. The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America’s First Modern Press Secretary. New York: Prometheus Books, 2008.
Lisio, Donald J. British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914–1930. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Logevall, Frederick. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012.
Love, Robert William Jr., ed. The Chiefs of Naval Operations. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1980.
Marrus, Michael R., and Robert O. Paxton. Vichy France and the Jews. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Matloff, Maurice. The 90 Division Gamble. Washington DC: Center for Military History, 1990.
Maurer, John, and Christopher Bell, eds. At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference of 1930. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2014.
Mayers, David. FDR’s Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis: From the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
McMahon, Robert J. Dean Acheson and the Creation of the American World Order. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2009.
Meid, Pat. US Marine Operations in Korea, 1950–1953: Vol. V, Operation in West Korea. Washington, DC: Historical Division USMC, 1973.
Messer, Robert L. The End of the Alliance: James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt, Truman and the Origins of the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Miller, Edward. Bankrupting the Enemy: The US Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2007.
———. War Plan Orange: The US Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1991.
Miller, Merle. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. New York: Berkley Publishing, 1973.
Miller, Roger G. Billy Mitchell: Stormy Petrel of the Air. Washington, DC: Office Air Force History, 2004.
Mills, Walter., ed. The Forrestal Diaries: The Inner History of the Cold War. London: Cassel & Co., 1952.
Miscamble, Wilson D. The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Mitter, Rana. Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945. New York: Penguin, 2014.
Muller, James W. Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech Fifty Years Later. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Murphy, Robert. Diplomat Among Warriors: The Unique World of a Foreign Service Expert. New York: Doubleday, 1964.
Musicant, Ivan. Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.
O’Brien, Phillips P. British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policies, 1900–1936. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.
———. How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
O’Connell, Robert L. Sacred Vessels: The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the US Navy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Offner, Arnold A. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002.
Organizational Development of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1942–2013. Washington, DC: Joint History Office, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. April, 2013.
O’Sullivan, Christopher D. FDR and the End of Empire: The Origins of American Power in the Middle East. New York: Palgrave, 2012.
———. Sumner Welles: Post-War Planning and the Quest for a New World Order, 1937–1943. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Parrish, Thomas. Roosevelt and Marshall: Partners in Politics and War. New York: William Morrow, 1989.
Paxton, Robert. Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944. New York: Knopf, 1972.
Persico, Joseph. Franklin and Lucy: Mrs. Rutherford and the Other Remarkable Women in Roosevelt’s Life. New York: Random House, 2009.
Pogue, Forrest. George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943–1945. New York: Viking, 1973.
Potter, E. B. The Naval Academy: Illustrated History of the United States Navy. New York: Galahad Books, 1971.
Rearden, Steven. A Council of War: A History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1942–1991. Washington, DC: Joint History Office, 2012.
Rigdon, William. White House Sailor. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.
Roll, David L. The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Rooney, David. Stilwell the Patriot: Vinegar Joe, the Brits and Chiang Kai-shek. London: Greenhill Books, 2005.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York: Harper Brothers, 1949.
Roosevelt, Elliott, ed. F.D.R.: His Personal Letters. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1970.
——— and James Brough. Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House. London: W. H. Allen, 1977.
Rosenman, Samuel. Working with Roosevelt. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952.
Roskill, Stephen. The War at Sea, volume 3: The Offensive. London: Naval and Military Press, 2009.
Reynolds, David. From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt and the International History of the 1940s. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Coming of the New Deal, 1933–1935: The Age of Roosevelt. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Schmitt. Waldo L. Decapod and other Crustacea Collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938, volume 3531. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1939.
Schnabel, James F. History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, volume 1: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Policy, 1945–1947. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1996.
Schneller, Robert J. Jr., Breaking the Color Barrier: The US Naval Academy’s First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: NYU Press, 2007.
Schwarz, Jordan A. The Speculator: Bernard M. Baruch in Washington, 1917–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
Sherwood, Robert. Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History. New York: Harper, 1948.
———. The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins, volume 2. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1949.
Smith, Kathryn. The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR and the Untold Story of a Partnership That Defined a Presidency. New York: Touchstone, 2016.
Smith, R. Elberton. The Army and Economic Mobilization. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1959.
Spalding, Elizabeth. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Steely, Skipper. Pearl Harbor Countdown: James O. Richardson. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2008.
Stoler, Mark A. Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Grand Alliance and US Strategy in World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
———. Allies in War: Britain and America Against the Axis Powers, 1940–1945. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005.
Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology and British Naval Policy, 1889–1914. London: Routledge, 1993.
Taylor, Jay. The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Thomas, Martin. The French Empire at War, 1949–1945. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1998.
Truman, Harry S. Memoirs: Volume I, Years of Decision. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955.
———. Memoirs: Volume II, Years of Trial and Hope. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955.
Tsou, Tang. America’s Failure in China, 1941–1950. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 1963.
Walker, Hugh Dyson. East Asia: A New History. Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2012.
Ward, Geoffrey. Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Wedemeyer, Albert. Wedemeyer Reports. New York: Henry Holt, 1958.
Weintraub, Stanley. 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century. New York: Free Press, 2007.
———. Final Victory: FDR’s Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2012.
Welles, Benjamin. Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist. New York: St Martin Press, 1997.
Welles, Sumner. Naboth’s Vineyard: The Dominican Republic, 1844–1924. New York: Payson and Clarke, 1928.
———. Seven Decisions That Changed History. New York: Harper, 1951.
———. The Time for Decision. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944.
Williams, Francis. A Prime Minister Remembers: The War and Post-War Memoirs of the Rt Hon Earl Attlee. London: William Heinemann, 1961.
Winik, Jay. FDR and the Year That Changed History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Woods, Randall B., and Howard Jones. Dawning of the Cold War: The United States Quest for Order. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Wright, Monte, and Lawrence Paszek, eds., Soldiers and Statesmen: Proceedings of the 4th Military History Symposium United States Air Force Academy. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1973.
Articles
Anderson Jr., Irvine H. “The 1941 De Facto Embargo on Oil to Japan: A Bureaucratic Reflex.” Pacific Historical Review 44, no. 2 (May 1975).
Borowski, Harry. “A Narrow Victory: The Berlin Blockade and the American Military Response.” Air University Review (July–August 1981).
Brown, Wilson. “Aide to Four Presidents.” American Heritage 6, no. 2 (1955).
Chao, Hsiang-ke, and Lin Hsiao-ting. “Beyond the Carrot and the Stick: The Political Economy of US Military Aid to China, 1945–1951.” Journal of Modern Chinese History 5, no. 2 (2011).
Craig, Bruce. “A Matter of Espionage, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White and Igor Gouzenko, the Canadian Connection Reassessed.” Intelligence and National Security 15, no. 2 (2000).
Faerstein, Eduardo, and Warren Winkelstein. “William Gorgas, Yellow Fever Meets Its Nemesis.” Epidemiology 22, no. 6 (November 2011).
Funk, Arthur L. “Eisenhower, Giraud and the Command of ‘Torch.’” Military Affairs 35, no. 3 (October 1971).
Giangreco, D. M. “Casualty Projections for the US Invasions of Japan, 1945–1946: Planning and Policy Implications.” Journal of Military History 61 (July 1997).
Halsted, James A. “Severe Malnutrition in a Public Servant of the World War II Era: The Medical History of Harry Hopkins.” Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association 86 (1975).
Melka, Robert L. “Darlan Between Britain and Germany, 1940–41.” Journal of Contemporary History 8, no. 2 (1973).
Muir, Malcolm, Jr. “American Warship Construction for Stalin’s Navy Prior to World War II: A Study of Paralysis of Power.” Diplomatic History 5, no. 4 (1981).
Okumiya, Masatake. “How the Panay Was Sunk.” Proceedings 79, no. 6 (June 1953).
Rofe, J. Simon. “‘Under the Influence of Mahan’: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and Their Understanding of American National Interest.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 19, no. 4.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. “Our Foreign Policy: A Democratic View.” Foreign Affairs 6, no. 4 (July 1928).
Reichardt, Tony. “The First Presidential Flight.” Air and Space Magazine, January 18, 2013.
Reynolds, David. “Wheelchair Diplomacy: FDR and American Foreign Policy, 1933–1945.” Diplomatic History 39, no. 3 (June 2015).
Rosenberg, David Alan. “American Atomic Strategy and the Hydrogen Bomb Decision.” Journal of American History 66, no. 1 (June 1979).
Shields, J. G. “Charlemagne’s Crusaders: French Collaboration in Arms, 1941–1945.” French Cultural Studies 18, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 2007).
Stoler, Mark. “George C. Marshall and the ‘Europe-First’ Strategy, 1939–1951: A Study in Diplomatic as Well as Military History.” Marshall Foundation Online: http://marshallfoundation.org/marshall/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2014/04/EDStoler.pdf.
———. “The Pacific-First Alternative in American World War II Strategy.” International History Review 2, no. 3 (July 1980).
Varley, Karine. “Vichy and the Complexities of Collaborating with Fascist Italy: French Policy and Perceptions Between June 1940 and March 1942.” Modern and Contemporary France 21, no. 3 (2013).