Editing Isoroku Yamamoto (section)

==Sources==
* Agawa, Hiroyuki; Bester, John (trans.). ''The Reluctant Admiral''. New York: Kodansha, 1979. {{ISBN|978-4-7700-2539-5}}. A definitive biography of Yamamoto in English. This book explains much of the political structure and events within Japan that led to the war.
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* Davis, Donald A. ''Lightning Strike: The Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0-312-30906-0}}.
* Dull, Paul S. ''A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1978. {{ISBN|978-0-87021-097-6}}.
* Evans, David C. and Mark R. Peattie. ''Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887–1941''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1997. {{ISBN|978-0-87021-192-8}}.
* Glines, Carroll V. ''Attack on Yamamoto'' (1st edition). New York: Crown, 1990. {{ISBN|978-0-517-57728-8}}. Glines documents both the mission to shoot down Yamamoto and the subsequent controversies with thorough research, including personal interviews with all surviving participants and researchers who examined the crash site.
* Lundstrom, John B. ''The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1984. {{ISBN|978-0-87021-189-8}}.
* Miller, Edward S. ''War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1991. {{ISBN|978-0-87021-759-3}}.
* [[Mark Peattie|Peattie]], Mark R. ''Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909–1941''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2002. {{ISBN|978-1-55750-432-6}}.
* Prados, John. ''Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001. {{ISBN|978-1-55750-431-9}}.
* Prange, Gordon. ''At Dawn We Slept''. New York: Penguin Books, 1982. {{ISBN|978-0-14-006455-1}}.
* Ugaki, Matome; Chihaya, Masataka (trans.). ''Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941–45''. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. {{ISBN|978-0-8229-5462-0}}. Provides a high-level view of the war from the Japanese side, from the diaries of Yamamoto's Chief of Staff, Admiral [[Matome Ugaki]]. Provides evidence of the intentions of the imperial military establishment to seize Hawaii and to operate against Britain's [[Royal Navy]] in the Indian Ocean. Translated by Masataka Chihaya, this edition contains extensive clarifying notes from the U.S. editors derived from U.S. military histories.
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