Japan War History

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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 2,086 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 153 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945
    • By: Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim, David W. Hogan Jr. - introduction
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 691 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....

    Regular price: $29.25

    • 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 96 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 2,901 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....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • 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 143 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....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • Race and Power in the Pacific War
    • By: John W. Dower
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • In this monumental history, professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War - race....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 280 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 303 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 118 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 97 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 39 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.

    Regular price: $14.95

    • 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 1,381 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....

    Regular price: $20.20

    • 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 3,041 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

    Regular price: $25.76

    • How One Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America
    • By: James Campbell
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • On the night of July 17, 1944, the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just 35 miles northeast of San Francisco, exploded with a force nearly that of an atomic bomb....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
    • By: Lord Russell of Liverpool
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies' official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool's sensational bestselling books on the Axis' war crimes decided the public's opinion....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea 1942-1945
    • By: James P. Duffy
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 128 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor
    • By: Bill Sloan
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Called “a master of the combat narrative” ( The Dallas Morning News), author Bill Sloan captures the valor, fortitude, and suffering of the American defenders of the Philippines as no other author has....

    Regular price: $17.62