Japan War History

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
    • By: Jeffrey Cox
    • Narrated by: Theodore O'Brien
    • Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies....

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    • 1467-1615
    • By: Stephen Turnbull
    • Narrated by: Malk Williams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • With updates from the author, this is a concise overview of Japan’s turbulent Age of Warring States....

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    • The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 682 ratings
    • In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan....

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    • The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
    • By: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,967 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

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    • History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II
    • By: Bryan Mark Rigg PhD, Andrew Roberts - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific.

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    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....

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    • By: Mark E. Stille
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War details the Japanese ships which fought in the Pacific and examines the principles on which they were designed, how they were armed, when and where they were deployed, and how effective they were in battle....

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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • Revised Edition
    • By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....

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    • War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
    • By: Ian W. Toll
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Series: The Pacific War Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 27 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,810 ratings
    • The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire island by island....

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Barbed wire, trenches, and machine guns are all elements of modern warfare that are mainly associated with the bloody carnage of World War One, yet they were all first used in combination 10 years earlier in a largely forgotten war that was fought in Manchuria and Korea....

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    • The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
    • By: James Scott
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,546 ratings
    • The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan’s merchant fleet and destroying its economy....

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    • The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
    • By: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,029 ratings
    • Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Japanese History, Including Events Such as the Genpei War, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Tsushima, and Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: James Peters
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • These are people who never let go of their sacred history, and their story is told and retold across the entire world. Westerners also learn flower arranging, martial arts, meditation, and enjoy visual and digital art forms because of the unique culture of Japan.

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    • The Last Train from Hiroshima
    • By: Charles Pellegrino
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written....

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    • The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
    • By: Michael Norman, Elizabeth Norman
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,373 ratings
    • For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan....

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    • A Biography of the USS Archerfish
    • By: Don Keith, Ken Henry
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • The Archerfish, a diesel powered Balao-class submarine crafted in the 1940s, won a unique, heroic place in military history....

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    • The United States Marines Against Japan
    • By: Robert Leckie
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 536 ratings
    • As scout and machine-gunner for the First Marine Division, Leckie fought in all its engagements until his wounding at Peleliu....

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    • Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
    • By: James M. Scott
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands....

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