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(en) Richard B Frank, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, New York, Random House, , 484p. (ISBN978-0-14-100146-3)
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(en) Daniel Marston (editeur), The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, Oxford, Osprey Publishing, , 272p. (ISBN978-1-84176-882-3)
(en) John Ray Skates, The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb Downfall, New York, University of South Carolina Press, , 276p. (ISBN978-0-87249-972-0)