Description
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives…
Dan’s research and book list
1. “The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present” by Richard Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy
2. “The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II: Over 200 First-Hand Accounts from the Six Years That Tore the World Apart” by John E. Lewis
3. “Roosevelt to Reagan: A Reporter’s Encounters With Nine Presidents” by Hedley Donovan
4. “A Military History of China” by David A. Graff and Robin Higham
5. “Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing: Memory and Healing” by Robert Sabella, Feifei Li and David Liu
6. “What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy” by H. W. Brands
7. “The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938: Complicating the Picture” by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
8. “The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II” by Edward Frederick Langley Russell
9. “Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II” by Yuki Tanaka and John W. Dower
10. ”The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945” by Mark Peattie, Edward Drea and Hans van de Ven
11. “The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945” by John Toland
12. “Japan and the Shackles of the Past” by R. Taggart Murphy
13. “The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans” by Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon
14. “Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy” by Eri Hotta
15. “The Making of Modern Japan” by Marius B. Jansen
16. “World War II at Sea: A Global History” by Craig L. Symonds
17. “President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: Appearances and Realities” by Charles A. Beard and Campbell Craig
18. “Japan: A Modern History” by James L. McClain
19. “Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor” by Walter Lord
20. “Target: Pearl Harbor” by Target: Pearl Harbor
21. “At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor” by Gordon W. Prange and Donald M. Goldstein
22. “The Second World War: Vol.III; The Grand Alliance” by Winston S. Churchill
23. “Clash of Empires in South China: The Allied Nations’ Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941” by Franco David Macri
24.”Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness” by Craig Nelson
25. “Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan” by Herbert P Bix
26. “Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan” by Ronald H. Spector
27. “A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present” by Andrew Gordon
28. “Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945” by Francis Pike