* The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway (1984)
* Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal (1986)
* The Carriers: A Chronicle of Naval Aviation from Kitty Hawk to Desert Storm (1986)
* First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (1990)
* The Midway Campaign: The Battle That Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's story (2005)
* The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (2008)
* The Pearl Harbor Attack: FDR, the U.S. Navy and the Lessons of Pearl Harbor (2011)
* The Man From Midway: How Breaking the Japanese Navy's Secret Code Shaped the Course of World War II (2015)
* America Ascendant: Seven Pivotal Battles That Shaped the United States (2020)
Articles and essays
* "The Pacific War Campaign" in Time-Life Books' World War II series
* "War Diary of a Destroyer" in Warship International magazine
* "Flying Fast: The Early Story of Naval Carrier Aviation" in The Naval Aviation Museum Foundation publication
* "The Battle of the Coral Sea" in The Naval History of World War II series
* "A Night Against Japan" in The Smithsonian Institution's Air & Space magazine