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 2,076 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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    • 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 152 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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    • 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....

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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 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....

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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 690 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 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 117 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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    • 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....

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • 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....

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    • 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....

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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 2,886 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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    • 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....

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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 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....

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    • By: John W. Dower
    • Narrated by: Edward Lewis
    • Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • This illuminating study explores the ways in which the defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society....

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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 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....

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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 301 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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    • 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.

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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 3,034 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

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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 6 ratings
    • With updates from the author, this is a concise overview of Japan’s turbulent Age of Warring States....

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    • 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....

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