Reading
Professor David Horner: "Defending Australia in 1942", article published in "The Pacific War 1942" issue of War & Society (May, 1993) University of New South Wales/ Australian Defence Force Academy.
Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya: "Midway -The Battle that doomed Japan", (1955) United States Navy Institute. See especially Chapter 3 "Debate on future Stategy".
Professor Henry P. Frei: "Japan's Southward Advance and Australia", (1991) Melbourne University Press.
Dr. David Day: "The Politics of War", (2003) HarperCollins.
Douglas Lockwood: "Australia's Pearl Harbor - Darwin 1942"
Professor Herbert P. Bix, "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan", (2000) HarperCollins, New York.
Professor J. J. Stephan: "Hawaii under the Rising Sun", (1984) University of Hawaii Press.
Web-sites:
Australian War Memorial at: http://www.awm.gov.au/
The archives are extensive, and the accessibility of the collections has now been greatly improved.
"When War came to Australia" at: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~darwin42/
Australia-Japan Research Project at:
http://www.awm.gov.au:8000/ajrp/ajrp2.nsf/Web-Pages/Homepage?OpenDocument
"North Queensland at War" at http://northqueenslandatwar.com/htdocs/
This web-site deals with World War 2 maritime history in northern Queensland (Australia) and the South West Pacific.
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