Storm over the Pacific : Japan's road to empire and war / Dennis Showalter -- Pearl Harbor : Japanese planning and command structure / Ken Kotani -- Rising sun strikes : the Japanese invasions / Tomoyuki Ishizu and Raymond Callahan -- Coping with disaster : Allied strategy and command in the Pacific, 1941-42 / Raymond Callahan -- The height of folly : the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway / Robert Love -- Learning from defeat : the Burma campaign / Daniel Marston -- General MacArthur's war : the South and Southwest Pacific campaigns, 1942-45 / David Horner -- The ANZAC contribution : Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific war / David Horner -- The shortest road to Tokyo : Nimitz and the Central Pacific war / Theodore Gatchel -- After Midway : Japanese naval strategy, 1942-45 / H. P. Willmott -- Across the reef : amphibious warfare in the Pacific / Joseph H. Alexander -- The island experience : the battle for Okinawa: April 1-June 21, 1945 / Bruce Gudmundsson -- Ending the Pacific war : "No alternative to annihilation" / Richard B. Frank.