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“And I Was There”: Pearl Harbor and Midway—Breaking the Secrets . New York: William Morrow, 1985.
    Leach, Douglas Edward. Now Hear This: The Memoir of a Junior Naval Officer in the Great Pacific War . Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1987.
    Leahy, William D. I Was There . New York: Whittlesey, 1950.
    Leckie, Robert. Helmet for My Pillow . New York: Bantam, 2010.
    Lee, Clark. They Call It the Pacific: An Eye-Witness Story of Our War Against Japan from Bataan to the Solomons . New York: Viking Press, 1943.
    Lee, Robert Edson. To the War . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.
    Lindsay, Patrick. The Coast Watchers: The Men Behind Enemy Lines Who Saved the Pacific . North Sydney, NSW, Australia: William Heinemann, 2010.
    Litoff, Judy Barrett, and David C. Smith, eds. American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1997.
    ________, eds. Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
    Loewenheim, Francis L., Harold D. Langley, and Manfred Jonas, eds. Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence. New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton, 1975.
    Lord, Walter. Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons . New York: Viking Press, 1977.
    Lotchin, Roger W. The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Diego . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
    Lucas, Jim Griffing. Combat Correspondent . New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944.
    Lundstrom, John B. Black Shoe Carrier Admiral. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
    ________. The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 . Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
    MacArthur, Douglas. Reminiscences . 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
    Madsen, Daniel. Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor . Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
    Manchester, William Raymond. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
    ________. Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War . Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
    Mason, Theodore C. Battleship Sailor . Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982.
    ________. Rendezvous with Destiny: A Sailor’s War . Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
    McIntire, Vice-Admiral Ross T. White House Physician . New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1946.
    Mears, Frederick. Carrier Combat : A Young Pilot’s Story of Action Aboard the Hornet in World War II. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967.
    Merillat, Herbert Christian Laing. Guadalcanal Remembered . New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982.
    ________. The Island: A History of the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal . Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2010.
    Michener, James A. Tales of the South Pacific . Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1947.
    Miller, Thomas Guy. The Cactus Air Force . 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.
    Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown, 1947–1962.
    Vol. 5: The Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942–February 1943 .
    Vol. 6: Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: July 22, 1942–May 1, 1944 .
    Vol. 7: Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942–April 1944 .
    Vol. 8: New Guinea and the Marianas: March 1944–August 1944 .
    Morris, Ivan. The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan . Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1982.
    Newcomb, Richard F. The Battle of Savo Island . New York: H. Holt, 2002.
    Nitobe, Inazo. Bushido: The Soul of Japan. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969.
    O’Kane, Richard H. Clear the Bridge! The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang . Chicago: Rand McNally, 1977.
    ________. Wahoo: The Patrols of America’s Most Famous World War II Submarine . Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1987.
    Okumiya, Masatake, Jiro Horikoshi, and Martin Caidin. Zero! New York: E. P. Dutton, 1956.
    Olson, Michael Keith. Tales from a Tin