Bookshop: Battle of Okinawa

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)

Appleman, Roy E. Okinawa, Konecky & Konecky Military Books, 1994.

Alexander, Col Joseph H. USMC (Ret). The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa Marines in World War II Commemorative Series, Marine Corps Historical Centre, Washington DC, 1996.

Huber, Thomas M., Japan's Battle of Okinawa, April - June 1945 , Leavenworth Papers No. 18, Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1990.

Leckie, Robert, Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War Two , Penguin Books, New York, 1996.

Feifer, George, The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb, Lyons Press, 2001.

Foster, Simon, Okinawa 1945 , Cassell Military, London, 1999.

Yahara, Colonel Hiromichi. The Battle for Okinawa, John Wiley & Sons, London, 1997.

Rottman, Gordon L. Okinawa, 1945, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2002, Campaign Series No. 96.

Sledge, E B. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1996 (Reprint).

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