Japan's Pacific War: Personal Accounts of the Emperor's Warriors
The Pacific War from the Japanese ranks.
First-person accounts of the Pacific War from Imperial Japanese Army and Navy veterans, collected in Japan by Peter Williams.
Publications
Everything Peter has published.
Five books, ten articles, chapters and commissioned reports, and recorded interviews and lectures — –. Cambridge University Press, Pen & Sword, Wiley, Australian Military History Publications, Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Wartime Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, WW2TV.
In print.
The Kokoda Campaign 1942: Myth and Reality
The Kokoda Campaign read through Japanese and Australian archives.
A re-examination of the 1942 Kokoda Campaign based on Japanese and Australian archival sources.
Wiley and Sons
Kokoda for Dummies
A general-reader introduction to the Kokoda campaign.
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Kitap Yayınevi, İstanbul
Çanakkale Savaşı Kanlısırt Muharebesi, 25 Nisan 1915
Turkish-language study of the Battle of Anzac Ridge (Kanlısırt) on 25 April 1915, from the Ottoman perspective. Translation of The Battle of Anzac Ridge (AMHP, 2007).
Australian Military History Publications
The Battle of Anzac Ridge: 25 April 1915
Peter's first book. A close-grain study of the 25 April 1915 Anzac landing and the fighting on Anzac Ridge from both the Australian/New Zealand and Ottoman sides, drawing on Turkish primary sources.
Military Analyses & Campaign Studies.
Tactical and operational deep-dives: artillery at Gallipoli, the Japanese 18th Army in New Guinea, an Imperial Navy pilot, and the Battle of Anzac Ridge — English original and Turkish translation.
- 2004
A Ridge Too Far
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
An Imperial Japanese Navy Pilot in New Guinea
- 2007
Zero Hours
- 2007
The Battle of Anzac Ridge
- 2009
Çanakkale Savaşı Kanlısırt Muharebesi, 25 Nisan 1915
Explorations of Historic Battles.
Campaign-level work: the Cambridge volume on Kokoda, the trade edition, Pen & Sword’s Pacific War, a Cambridge chapter, and commissioned reports for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
- 2010
The Kokoda Track: Site of the Battle in WWII
- 2011
Kokoda: The Second World War Campaign in Papua New Guinea
- 2011
Australia's Involvement in the Korean War
- 2012
- 2012
Kokoda for Dummies
- 2015
Australians in the United Kingdom in WWII
- 2017
Against Overwhelming Odds? On the Kokoda Trail
- 2021
On camera.
Long-form conversations on the WW2TV channel, plus a recorded lecture on the Pacific War.
Commissioned writing & consulting.
Past clients include the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. [email protected].