Suggested Readings

Target Tokyo

by James M. Scott (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015)

Probably the definitive work about the Doolittle Tokyo Raid, based on a wide range of primary documents including many previously unknown Japanese sources.

Japan Runs Wild

Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East)

by Peter Harmsen (Casement, 2020)

 

Puts the Doolittle Raid into the context of events taking place in early 1942, through a mix of official records as well as personal diaries and unpublished sources.

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again

 I Could Never Be So Lucky Again

by James Doolittle with Carroll V. Glines (Bantam, 2001)

The extraordinary life story of James “Jimmy” Doolittle, of which the Tokyo Raid was one of a series of pivotal events, all told with modesty and candor.