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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
Dan’s research and book list:
1. The End of the Imperial Japanese Navy by Masanori Ito
2. Eagle Against the Sun:The American War with Japan by Ronald Spector
3. Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell
4. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian W. Toll
5. The Things Our Fathers Saw—The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation From Hometown, USA-Volume I: Voices of the Pacific Theater by Matthew A. Rozell
6. The West Point Atlas of War: World War II, The Pacific by Vincent J. Esposito
7. Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook
8. Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II’s Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat by Patrick K. O’Donnell
9. Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II by John Prados
10. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy
11. 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
12. The Nobility of Failure by Ivan Morris
13. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II by Nathan Miller
14. 2194 days of war: An illustrated chronology of the Second World War by Cesare Salmaggi
15. World War II at Sea: A Global History by Craig L. Symonds
16. Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 by Francis Pike
17. The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers by David C. Evans
18. Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
19. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 by John Toland
20. Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud
21. American Warlords: How Roosevelt’s High Command Led America to Victory in World War II by Jonathan W. Jordan
22. The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II by Edward Frederick Langley Russell
23. End of Empire by Brian Lapping
24. The Pacific War: 1931-1945 by Saburo Ienaga
25. The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
26. Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, And Nuclear Weapons Devastation by Lynn Eden
27. Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 by Michihiko Hachiya
28. Triumph and Tragedy (Winston S. Churchill The Second World War) by Winston Churchill
29. No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War by Hiroo Onoda
30. LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay by
Warren Kozak
31. Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy
32. War by Gwynne Dyer
33. Dictionary of Battles: 1816-1976 by Brigadier Peter Young
34. Japan: A Modern History by James L. McClain
35. Doctor at Nagasaki: My First Assignment was Mercy Killing by Masao Shiotsuki
36. Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Gaynor Sekimori
37. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank
38. Descent into Hell: Civilian Memories of the Battle of Okinawa by Ryukyu Shimpo
39. The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II: Over 200 First-Hand Accounts from the Six Years That Tore the World Apart by Jon E. Lewis
40. Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II by Michael Bess
41. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
42. A history of strategic bombing by Lee B Kennett
43. Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II by Conrad C. Crane
44. A Tomb Called Iwo Jima: Firsthand Accounts from Japanese Survivors (Firsthand Accounts and True Stories from Japanese WWII Combat Veterans) by Dan King
45.The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War by
Jeremy A. Yellen
46. The Night Tokyo Burned by Hoito Edoin
47. Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 by Waldo Heinrichs
48. India At War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War by Yasmin Khan
49. The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen
50. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge
51. Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur
52. Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
53. The Nobility of Failure by Ivan Morris