Bibliography of Wake Island

Map of Wake Island 19°16′55″N 166°39′01″E / 19.28194°N 166.65028°ECoordinates: 19°16′55″N 166°39′01″E / 19.28194°N 166.65028°E^[1]

This is an English language bibliography of Wake Island and its geography, history, inhabitants, culture, biota, etc.^[2]

Wake Island (/ˈweɪk/; also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19 km) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu 2,300 statute miles (3,700 km) west to Guam 1,510 statute miles (2,430 km) east.

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Natural history

• Bryan, E. H. Jr. (1959). "Notes on the geography and natural history of Wake Island." (PDF). Atoll Research Bulletin 66.
• Daniel, Hawthorn (1943). "Wake Island". Islands of the Pacific.
• Grothe, P.R.; et al. (2010). Digital Elevation Models of Wake Island: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. Boulder, Colo: National Geophysical Data Center, Marine Geology and Geophysics Division.
• Wetmore, Alexander (1996). "Wake Island and Wake Island Rail In: Olson, Storrs L., History and Ornithological Journals of the Tanager Expedition of 1923 to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Johnston and Wake Islands" (PDF). Atoll Research Bulletin 433: 103–115, 184. doi:10.5479/si.00775630.433.1.

Military histories

• Cressman, Robert J. (2005). A Magnificent Fight: The Battle for Wake Island. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-140-8.^[3]
• Cunningham, Chet (2002). Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island. Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-1096-9.^[4]
• Cunningham, W. Scott; Lydel Sims (1961). Wake Island Command. Little, Brown.^[5]
• Devereux, James P. S. (1997). The Story of Wake Island. Battery Press. ISBN 0-89839-264-0.^[6][7][8]
• Moran, Jim (2011). Wake Island 1941; A battle to make the gods weep. Peter Dennis (illustrator). Osprey Campaign Series #144; Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908-603-5.
• Urwin, Gregory J. W. (1997). Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4555-6.^[9]
• Wukovits, John (2003). Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island. NAL Trade. ISBN 0-451-20873-0.^[10]

Notes

1. "Wake Atoll". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
2. Sloan, Bill (2005). "Selected Bibliography". Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island. Bantam Books. pp. 517–520. ISBN 0-553-38194-6.
3. Bartlett, Merrill L. (January 1996). "Review". The Journal of Military History (Society for Military History) 60 (1): 181–182. JSTOR 2944476.
4. Unwin, Gregory J. W. (Summer 2003). "Review". Pacific Affairs (Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia) 76 (2): 331–332. JSTOR 40024439.
5. Roskill, S. W. (Spring 1962). "Review". Pacific Affairs (Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia) 35 (1): 68–69. JSTOR 2752716.
6. Gleason, John H. (February 1948). "Review". Pacific Historical Review (University of California Press) 17 (1): 103–104. doi:10.2307/3634797. JSTOR 13634797.
7. Heinl,, Robert D., Jr. (Summer 1947). "Review". Military Affairs (Society for Military History) 11 (2): 128. JSTOR 1983336.
8. Arbolino, Jack N. (18 June 1947). "Review". Far Eastern Survey (Institute of Pacific Relations) 16 (2): 143–144. doi:10.1525/as.1947.16.12.01p0196w. JSTOR 3022483.
9. Bartlett, Merrill L. (January 1999). "Review". The Journal of Military History (Society for Military History) 63 (1): 212–213. JSTOR 120373.
10. Cressman, Robert J. (October 2004). "Review". The Journal of Military History (Society for Military History) 68 (4): 1286–1287. doi:10.1353/jmh.2004.0183. JSTOR 3397003.