Books like Shattered sword by Jonathan Parshall

Epilogue to Ian W. Toll’s Pacific War Trilogy, Twilight of the Gods chronicles the final year of WWII in the Pacific, detailing the decisive Battle of Leyte Gulf, Japan’s kamikaze attacks, and the strategic decisions that led to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"Based on his own experiences in the First World War, Rommel discusses and analyses the tactics that lay behind his success ... As a leader of a small unit, he proved himself an aggressive and versatile commander, with a reputation of using the terrain of the battleground for his own advantage, for gathering in as much intelligence on the enemy, as he could, and for seeking out and exploiting enemy weaknesses. For his achievements in [World War I] he was awarded Germany's highest order for valour"--Jacket.

The crucial World War II Battle of Midway is stirringly re-created from both the American and Japanese points of view.

During World War II, there were few fates that could befall a soldier so hellish as internment in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. To this day, many survivors -- most of whom are now in their 80s -- still cannot talk about their experiences without unearthing terrible memories. Surviving the Sword gives voice to these tens of thousands of Allied POWs and offers us a powerful reminder of the terror and deprivations of war and the resilience of the human spirit. In this important book, Brian MacArthur draws on the diaries of American, British, Dutch, and Australian Fepows (Far Eastern prisoners of war), some of whose recollections are published here for the first time. These soldiers wrote and kept their diaries, in secret, because they were determined to record for posterity how they were starved and beaten, marched almost to death, or transported on "hellships"; how their fellows were summarily executed by guards or felled by the thousands by tropical diseases; and how they were used as slave labor -- most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway (later depicted in The Bridge on the River Kwai). The diaries excerpted here make plain why the Fepows have always believed that their brutal treatment by Japanese and Korean guards was literally incomprehensible to those who did not live it. - Jacket flap.

A detailed account of the final months of World War II, focusing on the emergence of kamikaze tactics and the fatal attack on the USS Bunker Hill.

On July 30, 1945 the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, sinking in minutes and leaving hundreds of sailors in a deadly survival ordeal in the Philippine Sea. The book follows the rescue, prosecution of its captain, and decades of vindication.