Comments by "Gregory Wright" (@gregorywright4918) on "Learning about the Imperial Japanese Navy - Introductory book recommendations" video.

  1. A good list, Drach, with a couple omissions (probably ones out on loan?): Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945), by Paul Dull Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power (1909-1941) by Mark Peattie The Japanese Submarine Force and WW2 by Boyd and Yoshida The Japanese Merchant Marine in WW2 by Mark Parillo If your interest is in shipbuilding, there is a good chapter on Japan in: Naval Shipbuilders of the World by Robert Winklareth For individual ship focuses, aside from the cheap Osprey series, there is the Legends of Warfare: Naval series, which has Ahlberg & Lengerer doing the Soryus, Kongos, and Fubuki classes and their derivatives, the ShipCraft books, and the Anatomy of the Ship series. For "what were Japanese thinking", I would add: The Pacific War 1931-1945 by Saburo Ienaga Japan 1941 by Eri Hotta Japan Prepares For Total War by Michael Barnhart Fading Victory - the Diary of Admiral Motome Ugaki I did appreciate Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara, but I thought it needed to be taken with a bit of scepticism, not quite as much as Mitsuo Fuchidas books. Saburo Sakai's memoir was good as well, but he was part of the land-based naval air forces (flying a Zero), not the ship-based ones. Finally, there are some great battle studies, of which the best recently are: Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by J Parshall and A Tully The First Team (2 books) by John Lundstrom Pacific Crucible (and 2 more) by Ian Toll Fortress Rabaul by Bruce Gamble Rising Sun, Falling Skies (and 2 more) by Jeffrey Cox Islands of Destiny by John Prados Empires in the Balance (and 2 more) by HP Wilmott Some of the latter ones focus more on US/Allied actions, but they mix more Japanese perspectives in than books from earlier. Final question - how do we get a library card for the Drach Collection?
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  2.  @bkjeong4302  Neptune's Inferno was good, though I was angling for ones with more of the Japanese perspective. The other two I have not read; I will put them on my list.
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  3. Or lack of oil...
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  4. High prices can also motivate people with spare or unneeded copies to sell them off; the Japanese Cruisers book had been going for over $400 up until middle of last year, when it started dropping and is now around $200s.
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  5. The Japanese-language books you reference at 5:55 - could you give us the titles and authors in the Comments, please?
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  6. That could take days...
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  7.  @bkjeong4302  On looking them up, both reviews talk about major Japanese sources, and I know both authors. Agreed - recommend.
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  8.  @sirboomsalot4902  I was re-reading I-Boat Captain recently. He seemed fascinated with midgets and kaiten operations. Perhaps it was because it was all they had left at the end, but there was way too much expectation for the midgets before Pearl Harbor, and their use there almost gave away the show (plus they did nothing). The info about the normal boats operation was pretty good, you just have to weed it out.
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  9. Without the "Imperial"...
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