When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan’s leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war’s last year.

00:00 – Intro
22:55 – Burma / India
01:14:10 – Peleliu
01:56:27 – Iwo
02:58:01 – Leyte
03:25:01 – Firebombing
04:04:13 – Okinawa
04:54:40 – Ending of the war
05:27:35 – Epilogue

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