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World War One

• Winged Victory (Victor Yeates)
• Horses Don't Fly (Frederick Libby)
• Falcons of France (Charles Nordhoff & James Hall)

• Crysthanthemum and Sword: Japanese Culture (Benedict)
• Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945 (Beasley)
• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Herbert Bix)
• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust (Iris Chang)
• Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 (Alvin Coox)
• Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, Technology (Evans & Peattie)
• Sunburst: Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power (Mark Peattie)
• JAAF Fighter Units & Their Aces (Izawa, Hata, Shores)
• Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-45 (Henry Sakaida)
• The Pacific War, 1931-1945: Japan's Role (Saburo Ienaga)
• Kempeitai: Japan's Military Police (Ramond Lamont-Brown)
• Prisoners of the Japanese (Gavan Daws)
• Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea (Gregory Michno)
• Sex slaves for the Emperor: Japan's "Comfort Women"
• Samurai! (Saburo Sakai et al)
• Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Gods (Axell & Kaze)
• Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, Nationalisms (Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney)
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII (John Dower)

• Buffaloes Over Singapore (Brian Cull et al)
• Defeat Into Victory (Field Marshal Sir William Slim)
• The Bravest Man: U.S. Submariners in the Pacific War
• Black Sheep One: Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (Bruce Gamble)
• Magnificent Fight: The Battle for Wake Island (Robert Cressman)
• The Black Sheep: VMF 214 in World War II (Bruce Gamble)
• Building the B-29 (Jacob Vander Meulen)
• Blankets of Fire: U.S. Bombers over Japan (Kenneth Werrell)
• Breaking the Emperor's Codes (Michael Smith)
• Flyboys: a flawed account of an atrocity
• Downfall: End of the Japanese Empire (Frank)
• Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Hastings)
• Hiroshima's Shadow: Denial and the Smithsonian (Bird etc)

• War Wings: the U.S. and Chinese Military Aviation (Xu)
• Tex Hill: Flying Tiger (Tex Hill & Reagan Schaupp)
• AVG Colours & Markings (Terrill Clements)
• Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the AVG (Daniel Ford)
• Remains (a novel of the Flying Tigers) (Daniel Ford)
• Tale of a Tiger (R.T. Smith)
• P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CBI (Carl Molesworth)
• The Lady and the Tigers (Greenlaw & Ford)
• China Pilot: Flying For Chennault in the Cold War (Felix Smith)
• Destiny: A Flying Tiger's Rendezvous With Fate (Erik Shilling)
• Last Hope: The Blood Chit Story (R.E. Baldwin & Thomas McGarry)
• P-40 Warhawk vs. Ki-43 Oscar (Carl Molesworth)

• Lili Marlene: The Soldier's Song of WWII (Leibovitz & Miller)
• Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West (Frieser)
• Forgotten Air Force: French Air Doctrine 1930s (Caine)
• Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader (Brickhill)
• Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II (Ardery)
• Lentolaivue 24 (Stenman & Keskinen)
• Luftwaffe War Diaries: German Air Force in WWII (Bekker)
• The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (Overy)
• The Day We Bombed Switzerland (Granholm)
• The Wild Blue (Ambrose)
• Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare (Biddle)

• The Father of All Things (Bissell)
• Bury Us Upside Down (Newman & Shepperd)
• No Man's Land (Huong)
• 'Unquiet Americans' (Nam-a-Rama and Fatal Crossroads)
• Stolen Valor (Burkett & Whitley)
• They Marched into Sunlight (Maraniss)
• Green Berets in the Vanguard, 1953-1963 (Chalmers Archer)
• Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam (Ford)
• Incident at Muc Wa (Ford)
• War Story (Jim Morris)
• The Village (Bing West)
• When Thunder Rolled: F-105 over North Vietnam (Rasimus)

• Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot (Daniel Ford)
• The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft (David Myhra)
• Horten Ho 229 Spirit of Thuringia (Andrei Shepelev & Huib Ottens)

• Arreguin-Toft: How the Weak Win Wars: Asymmetric Conflict
• Luttwak: Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace
• Smith: The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
• Galula: Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
• van Creveld: The Transformation of War
• 'Was John Boyd a new Sun Tzu?' - the OODA Loop and all that
• Bobbitt: Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century
• West: The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, Endgame in Iraq
• Adams: The Army After Next: The First Postindustrial Army
• Wright: The Looming Tower: the Road to 9/11
• Lacey: 'A military marvel's race to Baghdad'
• Kaplan: Imperial Grunts: American Military on the Ground
• Keegan & Record: The Iraq War - Dark Victory
• West & Smith: The March Up: 1st Marine Division to Baghdad
• Stanik: El Dorado Canyon: Reagan's War on Qaddagi
• Campbell: The Warthog and the CAS Debate
• Berkowitz: The New Face of War
• Friedman: Terrorism, Afghanistan, & America's Way of War

• 'Point and Shoot' - of Gatling guns and AK-47s
• Twilight Warriors: Covert Ops against the USSR (Curtis Peebles)
• Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun (Bob Ward)
• American Raiders: Race for the Luftwaffe's Secrets (Samuels)
• Howard Hughes, Aviator (George Marrett)
• 'Perils of Captivity' - three books about PWs
• Adak: The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586 (Andrew Jampoler)
• North Star Over My Shoulder: A Flying Life (Bob Buck)
• Century of Triumph: The History of Aviation (Christopher Chant)
• Guts & Glory: American Military Image in Film (Lawrence Suid)
• Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Air Power (Dik Daso)
• Aircraft carrier operations - two books
• America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing (McFarland)
• Warbirds: U.S. Military Aircraft, 1915-2000 (John C. Fredriksen)
• America's Hundred Thousand: Fighter Aircraft (Francis Dean)
• Aces High: Most Notable Fighter Pilots (Shores et al)
• Rounding the Horn (Dallas Murphy)
• Young Men and Fire (Norman Maclean)

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