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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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    • World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
    • By: Gary J. Bass
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 31 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg.

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    • Air War Over Guadalcanal
    • By: Eric Hammel, Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Adam Henderson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • In The Cactus Air Force, Pacific War expert Thomas McKelvey Cleaver worked closely with Eric to build on his collection of diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts to create a vivid narrative of the struggle in the air over the island of Guadalcanal....

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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 2,807 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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    • By: Iris Chang
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,513 ratings
    • In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.....

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
    • By: A. J. Baime
    • Narrated by: Tony Messano
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,268 ratings
    • The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb....

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    • Brief Histories
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....

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    • An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
    • By: Steve Kemper
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war....

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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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    • The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle
    • By: Mark Stille
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • In April 1942, the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the zenith of its power. It had struck a severe blow against the US Navy at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, before spearheading the Japanese advance through Southeast Asia and rampaging across the South Pacific.

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    • By: John Hersey
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 368 ratings
    • On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic....

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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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    • The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II
    • By: Dan Hampton
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • In 1943, the United States military began to plan one of the most dramatic secret missions of World War II. Its code name was Operation Vengeance....

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    • Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
    • By: Michael Dylan Foster
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages....

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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 Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron
    • By: John Wukovits
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,429 ratings
    • Through diaries, personal interviews, and letters, preeminent historian John Wukovits brings to life the human story of the WWII Pacific theater's victorious Destroyer Squadron 21 and its men....

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