I can recommend some awesome books on the Pacific War:
Freedom From Fear (more 1930-1945 worldwide)
At Dawn We Slept
Neptunes Inferno
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
The Fleet at Flood Tide
Miracle at Midway
Thunder Below
The Big E
Stillwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
With the Old Breed
Helmet for My Pillow
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Downfall: The End of Imperial Japanese Empire
A War to Be Won (great book, covers all fronts)
From the Japanese POV:
Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire
Shattered Sword (pretty technical at times, read after MIracle)
Japanese Destroyer Captain
Samurai!
Hiroshima
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