Bookshop: Battle of Iwo Jima

Tanks on Iwo Jima 1945, Romain Cansiere. Looks at the relatively small scale use of armour by both sides during the battle of Iwo Jima, with only 35 tanks on the Japanese side, and four times that many on the US sides. Looks at how the US Marines modified their tanks to try and protect against known Japanese weapons, how the Japanese chose to deploy their limited number of tanks, and how the two sides fared in battle (Read Full Review)

East China Sea 1945 – Climax of the Kamikaze, Brian Lane Herder. Covers the air and naval aspects of the American invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, which saw the Americans assemble one of the largest fleets in naval history, while the Japanese carried out a series of massive kamikaze attacks, especially during the battle of Okinawa. Shows just how terrifying these attacks could be, but also how the size and effectiveness of them dwindled during the campaign, with the final major attack only including 45 kamikazes (Read Full Review)

The Battle for Iwo Jima , Wright, Derrick, Sutton Publishing, London, 1999

Closing In - Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima , Alexander, Joseph H., Marine Corps Historical Centre, Washington DC, 1994. [see more..]

Iwo Jima, 1945 , Wright, Derrick, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2001, Campaign Series No. 81

Iwo Jima , Newcombe, Richard F., Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1965

Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor , Ross, Bill D. , Vintage Books, New York, 1986

Never in Doubt: Remembering Iwo Jima , Kessler, Lynn. (Ed) , Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1999.

Iwo Jima and Okinawa , Black, Wallace B. , Prentice Hall, London, 1993