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Selected Bibliography of Resources in the UH Library:

Books

The books listed below are located at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library. Please consult the UH Library's online catalog for additional information.

• A-C
• D-G
• H-L
• M-P
• R-Z

Books: A-C

• 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The Album, 1943. Atlanta: Albert Love Enterprises, 1943.
• 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The Story of the 442nd Combat Team: Composed of 442nd Infantry Regiment, 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 232nd Combat Engineer Company. Information-Education Section, MTOUSA, 1946.
• 442nd Veterans Club of Hawaii. Go For Broke, 442nd Regimental Combat Team: The 442nd Decade, 10th Anniversary Reunion, July 20-31, 1953, Hawaii. Honolulu, n.p., 1953.
• Allen, Gwenfread. Hawaii's War Years, 1941-1945. Westport, CN Greenwood Press, 1971.
• Armor, John and Peter Wright. Manzanar. Photographs by Ansel Adams. Commentary by John Hersey. New York: Times Books, 1988.
• Arthur, Anthony. The Bushmasters: America's Jungle Warriors of World War II. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
• Beekman, Allan. Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: Heritage Press of Pacific, 1992.
• Beekman, Allan. The Niihau Incident: The True Story of the Japanese Fighter Pilot Who, After the Pearl Harbor Attack, Crashlanded on the Hawaiian Island of Niihau and Terrorized the Residents. Honolulu: Heritage Press of Pacific, 1982.
• Blumenson, Martin. Salerno to Cassino. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army, 1969.
• Böhmler, Rudolf. Monte Cassino. London: Cassell, 1964.
• Bonn, Keith E. When the Odds Were Even: The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944- January 1945. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1994.
• Bosworth, Allan R. America's Concentration Camps. New York: Norton, 1967.
• Bourke-White, Margaret. They Called It “Purple Heart Valley” A Combat Chronicle of the War in Italy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944.
• Boylan, Dan and T. Michael Holmes. John A. Burns: The Man and His Times. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
• Brown, DeSoto. Hawaii Goes to War: Life in Hawaii from Pearl Harbor to Peace. Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1995.
• Bruyeres 16 Octobre 1944: 50 Anniversaire de la Libération des Vosges Bruyeres, France, 1944-1994: Programme. Bruyeres, France: Editions du Chemin de la Paix et de la Liberté, 1994.
• Chang, Thelma. “I Can Never Forget” Men of the 100th/442nd. Honolulu: Sigi Productions, 1991.
• Chuman, Frank F. The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese-Americans. Del Mar, CA: Publisher's Inc., 1976.
• Clarke, Jeffrey J., and Robert Ross Smith. Riviera to the Rhine: The European Theater of Operations. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1993.
• Clarke, Thurston. Pearl Harbor Ghosts: A Journey to Hawaii, Then and Now. New York: William Morrow, 1991.
• Clarke, Thurston. Pearl Harbor Ghosts: A Journey to Hawaii, Then and Now. New York: William Morrow, 1991.
• Club 100. For Continuing Service: 10th Anniversary, 1942-1952. Honolulu: Club 100, 1952.
• Club 100. For Continuing Service: Club 100 30th Anniversary Reunion, June 9, 10, 11, 1972. Honolulu, Club 100, 1972.
• Club 100. 100th Infantry Battalion, 55th Anniversary Reunion, 1942-1997. Honolulu: Club 100, 1997.
• Club 100. Remembrances: 100th Infantry Battalion, 50th Anniversary Celebration, 1942-1992. Honolulu: 100th Infantry Battalion Publication Committee, 1992.
• Coffman, Tom. The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
• Cole, H.M. The Lorraine Campaign. Washington, DC: Historical Division, Dept. of the Army, 1950.
• Congdon, Don, ed. Combat WW II: European Theater of Operations. New York: Arbor House, 1983.
• Connell, Thomas. America's Japanese Hostages: The World War II Plan for a Japanese Free Latin America. Westport, CN: Praeger, 2002.
• Conrat, Maisie and Richard. Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1992.
• Crost, Lyn. Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1994.

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Books: D-G

• Daniels, R., ed. American Concentration Camps: A Documentary History of the Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989.
• Daws, Gavan. Shoal of Time: History of the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1974.
• Duesing, D. E. Americanism: A Matter of Mind and Heart, vol. I, The Military Intelligence Service. Wailuku, HI: Maui's Sons and Daughters of the Nisei Veterans, 2001.
• Duus, Masayo Umezawa. Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd. Translated by Peter Duus. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987.
• Emergency Service Committee, Morale Section, Office of the Military Governor. Report of the Emergency Service Committee. Honolulu: n.p., 1944.
• An Era of Change: Oral Histories of Civilians in World War II Hawaii. 5 vols. Honolulu: Center for Oral History, University of Hawaii, 1994.
• Falk, Stanley L. and Warren M. Tsuneishi, eds. MIS in the War Against Japan: Personal Experiences Related at the 1993 MIS Capital Reunion, “The Nisei Veteran: An American Patriot.” Vienna, VA: Japanese American Veterans Association of Washington, DC, 1995.
• Fisher, Ernest F. Jr. Cassino to the Alps. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army, Center of Military History, 1977.
• Fox, Evarts C. Jr., and Dennis M. Ogawa. Japanese Internment and Relocation: The Hawaii Experience. n.p., 1983.
• Fuchs, Lawrence H. Hawaii Pono: A Social History. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
• Fujita, Frank. Foo, a Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun: The Secret Prison Diary of Frank “Foo” Fujita. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1993.
• Garland, Albert N. and Howard McGaw Smyth. Sicily and the Surrender of Italy. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1965.
• Go for Broke: 442nd 40th Anniversary, 1943-1983: March 24-27, Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu: n.p., 1983.
• “Go for Broke: A Salute to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team on its 50th Anniversary.” Honolulu Advertiser, 21 March 1993, special insert.
• Grant, Glen and Dennis M. Ogawa. To a Land Called Tengoku: One Hundred Years of the Japanese in Hawaii. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing of Honolulu, 1985.
• Gruenwald, Mary Matsuda. Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps. Troutdale, OR: New Sage Press, 2005.

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Books: H-L

• Harrington, Joseph D. Yankee Samurai: The Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory. Detroit: Pettigrew Enterprises, 1979.
• Harris, Catherine Embree. Dusty Exile: Looking Back at Japanese Relocation During World War II. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1999.
• Hart, Erica, ed. Last Witness: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
• Hawaii Holocaust Project. Days of Remembrance: Hawaii Witnesses to the Holocaust. Honolulu: Center for Oral History, Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991.
• Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board, ed. Japanese Eyes, American Heart: Personal Reflections of Hawaii's World War II Nisei Soldiers. Honolulu: Tendai Educational Foundation, 1998.
• Hazama, Dorothy and Jane Komeiji. Okage Sama De: The Japanese in Hawaii, 1885-1985. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1987.
• Hazama, Dorothy and Jane Komeiji. The Japanese in Hawaii: A Hundred Years. Honolulu: Japanese Women's Society of Honolulu, 1985.
• Historical Album Committee of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Fire for Effect: A Unit History of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Honolulu: 522nd Field Artillery Battalion Historical Album Committee, 1998.
• Hosokawa, Bill. Nisei: The Quiet Americans. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
• Hosokawa, Bill. Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Japanese American. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1998.
• Hune, S. et al. Asian Americans: Comparative and Global Perspectives. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1991.
• Hyde, A. P. Pearl Harbor: Then and Now. London: Battle of Britain Prints International, 1982.
• Ichinokuchi, Tad, ed. John Aiso and the M.I.S: Japanese-American Soldiers in the Military Intelligence Service, World War II. Los Angeles: The Club, 1988.
• Ichioka, Yuji. The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924. New York: Free Press, London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1988.
• Inouye, Daniel K. Go for Broke. n.p., 1970.
• Irons, Peter. Justice at War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
• Judiciary History Center, et. al. Government Under Martial Law: A Humanities Exhibit, & Duncan V. Kahanamoku, A Living History Program. Honolulu: Judiciary History Center, 1991.
• Kanazawa, Tooru Joe. Close Support: A History of the Cannon Company of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Cannon Company, 442nd RCT, 1993.
• Karig, Walter. Battle Report. New York: Council on Books in Wartime by Farrar & Rinehart, 1944-52.
• Kikuchi, Yuki. The Pacific War of the Nisei in Hawaii. Edited by Yoshinobu Oshiro. Translated by Yoko Hayashi Horiuchi. Pearl City, HI: 1999.
• Kikumura, Akemi. Issei Pioneers: Hawaii and the Mainland, 1885 to 1924. Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, 1992.
• Kim, Hyung-chan. Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1999.
• Kimura, Yukiko. Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.
• Kitagawa, Daisuke. Issei and Nisei: The Internment Years. New York: Seabury Press, 1967.
• Kiyosaki, Wayne S. A Spy in Their Midst: The World War II Struggle of a Japanese-American Hero: The Story of Richard Sakakida. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1995.
• Knaefler, Tomi Kaizawa. Our House Divided: Seven Japanese American Families in World War II. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.
• Kotani, Roland. The Japanese in Hawaii: A Century of Struggle. Honolulu: Hawaii Hochi, 1985.
• Kurzman, Dan. The Race for Rome. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975.
• Lind, Andrew W. Hawaii's Japanese: An Experiment in Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1946.

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Books: M-P

• MacDonald, Charles B. The Last Offensive. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1973.
• MacDonald, Charles B. The Siegfried Line Campaign. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1963.
• Matsuo, Dorothy. Boyhood to War: History and Anecdotes of the 442nd RCT. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1992.
• Military Intelligence Service Veterans Club of Hawaii. Secret Valor: M.I.S. Personnel, World War II, Pacific Theater, pre Pearl Harbor to September 8, 1951. Honolulu: The Veterans, 2001.
• Miller, Donald. The Story of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
• Moore, Brenda L. Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military During World War II. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
• Moulin, Pierre. U.S. Samuraïs in Bruyeres: People of France and Japanese Americans: Incredible Story. France: Peace & Freedom Trail, 1993.
• Murphey, Thomas Daniel. Ambassadors in Arms: The Story of Hawaii's 100th Battalion. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1954.
• Myers, D. J. Remembering Pearl Harbor: Fifty Years Later. Honolulu: Daniel James Publishers, 1991.
• Nakasone, Edwin M. The Nisei Soldier: Historical Essays on World War II and the Korean War. White Bear Lake, MN: J-Press, 1999.
• Nakatsuka, Lawrence. Hawaii's Own: Picture Story of 442nd Regiment, 100th Battalion and Interpreters. Drawings by Soji Morisawa. Honolulu: L.H. Sakamoto, 1946.
• Niewert, David A. Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
• Oba, Ronald. The Men of Company F. Honolulu: n.p., 1993.
• Odo, Franklin. No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawaii During World War II. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
• Ogawa, Dennis M. Jan ken po: The World of Hawaii's Japanese Americans. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1978.
• Ogawa, Dennis M. Kodomo no tame ni: For the Sake of the Children: The Japanese American Experience in Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
• Oie, Harold T. Military Intelligence Service. n.p., 1990.
• Okamura, Jonathan Y., ed. The Japanese American Contemporary Experience in Hawaii. Honolulu: Dept. of Sociology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002.
• Okamura, Jonathan Y., ed. The Japanese American Historical Experience in Hawaii. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub., 2001.
• Okihiro, Gary Y. Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
• Okimoto, Daniel I. American in Disguise. Foreword by James A. Michener. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
• Onoda, Hiroo. No Surrender: My Thirty-year War. Translated by Charles S. Terry. Tokyo, New York: Kodansha International, 1974.
• Petersen, William. Japanese Americans: Oppression and Success. New York: Random House, 1971.
• Prange, Gordon W., Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: Viking, 1991.
• Presidio Army Museum. Go For Broke: An Exhibit Honoring the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the “Most Decorated Unit of World War II.” Washington, DC: GPO, 1981.

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Books: R-Z

• Rademaker, John A. These Are Americans: The Japanese Americans in Hawaii in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1951.
• Remembrances: 100th Infantry Battalion, 50th Anniversary Celebration, 1942-1992. Honolulu: 100th Infantry Battalion Publication Committee, 1992.
• Saiki, Patsy Sumie. Early Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii. Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, 1993.
• Saiki, Patsy Sumie. Ganbare!: An Example of Japanese Spirit. Honolulu: Kisaku, Inc., 1983.
• Sakamoto, Mitsuo. My Best World War II Souvenir: Chronicles of One Man's Experiences in the United States Army. Hawaii: n.p., 1995.
• Sarasohn, Eileen Sunada, ed. The Issei, Portrait of a Pioneer: An Oral History. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1983.
• Shibutani, Tamotsu. The Derelicts of Company K: A Sociological Study of Demoralization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
• Shirey, Orville C. Americans: The Story of the 442nd Combat Team. Washington, DC: Infantry Journal Press, 1947.
• Smith, E. D. The Battles for Cassino. New York: Scribner, 1975.
• Sogi, Francis Y. Riding the Kona Wind: Memoirs of a Japanese American. New York: Cheshire Press, 2004.
• Steering Committee, Company B and others. The Boys of Company B. Honolulu: Hawaii Hochi, 1981.
• Steidl, Franz. Lost Battalions: Going for Broke in the Vosges, Autumn 1944. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1997.
• Takaki, Ronald. Issei and Nisei: The Settling of Japanese America. New York: Chelsea House, 1994.
• Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.
• Tamura, Eileen H. Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation in Hawaii. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
• Tanaka, Chester. Go for Broke: A Pictorial History of the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1997.
• Terry, John B. With Hawaii's AJA Boys at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Honolulu: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1943.
• “The Man Who Astonished Hattiesburg.” Saturday Evening Post. 10 November 1945.
• Toland, John. Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath. New York: Berkley, 1983.
• Toyama, Tetsuo. Eighty Years in Hawaii. Tokyo: Tosho Print. Co., 1971.
• Tsukano, John. Bridge of Love. Honolulu: Hawaii Hosts, 1985.
• Tucker, Spencer, ed. and Priscilla Mary Roberts, ed. vol 5. Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social, and Military History. 5 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2005
• United States War Department General Staff. Military Intelligence Service Language School Album. Washington, DC: Military Intelligence Division, War Dept., 1946.
• Van Sant, J. E. Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journey to America and Hawaii, 1850-1880. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
• Varsity Victory Volunteers. 25th Anniversary, 1942-1967. Honolulu, n.p., 1967.
• Varsity Victory Volunteers. The Album, 1943. Atlanta: Albert Love Enterprises, 1943.
• Varsity Victory Volunteers. The Volunteer: The Editor and His Staff Present the Varsity Victory Volunteers. Hawaii: n.p., 1943.
• Wakamatsu, Jack K. Silent Warriors: A Memoir of America's 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Los Angeles: JKW Press, 1992.
• Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps. New York: Morrow, 1976.
• Yamada, Masao. Captain Masao Yamada, April 10, 1907-May 7, 1984: Chaplain, 3rd Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment: Collection of World War II Letters. Kailua, HI: Ai Yamada, 2002.
• Yamasaki, L.Y., E. Tamura, and L. Menton. Ancestry is Not a Crime: The Internment of People of Japanese Descent during World War II. Honolulu: Office of Instructional Services, Department of Education, State of Hawaii, 1994.
• Yatagai, Cindy. Videotapes on the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion, 552nd Field Artillery Battalion, and 441st Counter Intelligence Corps, Available in the Wong Audiovisual Center, Sinclair Library. Honolulu: The Center, 1995.
• Yoshida, Jim, and Bill Hosokawa. The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida. New York: Morrow, 1972.
• Yoshida, Shigeo. In Memoriam: An Address in Honor of the University of Hawaii Varsity Victory Volunteers Who Died in World War II. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1946.

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