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Midway
- The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle
- By: Mark Stille
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Midway is the most famous naval battle of the Pacific War, and one of the most mythologized. The traditional view of the battle, popularized in its immediate aftermath and surviving through to the present day, is of a heavily outnumbered American force snatching victory in the face of overwhelming odds. This view is simplistic and, in many respects, wrong. Pacific War expert Mark Stille provides a detailed analysis of this pivotal battle, and argues that Midway was neither a miraculous American victory, nor a product of good fortune.
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Midway
- The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2024
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- By: Jonathan Clements
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance21
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Story21
From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of the country from the next 500 years. Clements also looks at the Samurai wars that tore Japan apart in the 17th and 18th centuries and how the caste was finally demolished in the advent of the mechanized world.
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A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-02-2014
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Japan
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance51
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With intelligence and wit, author Jonathan Clements blends documentary and storytelling styles to connect the past, present, and future of Japan, and in broad yet detailed strokes reveals a country of paradoxes: a modern nation steeped in ancient traditions; a democracy with an emperor as head of state; a famously safe society built on 108 volcanoes resting on the world's most active earthquake zone; a fast-paced urban and technologically advanced country whose land consists predominantly of mountains and forests.
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I have been enlightened.
- By Hanma on 06-10-2025
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A Brief History of Japan
- Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2019
- Language: English
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Shogun
- The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler
- By: A.L. Sadler, Stephen Turnbull - foreword, Alexander Bennett - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace to the nation. He established a new central government which enabled his descendants to rule Japan for the next 260 years—a period in which Japanese culture as we know it today flourished.
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Not as good as I expected
- By Marc Fearby on 15-03-2024
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Shogun
- The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2023
- Language: English
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Japan's Infamous Unit 731
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance21
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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 in the name of science and Japan's wartime chemical and biological warfare research. Author Hal Gold draws upon a wealth of sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit, giving an overview of its history and detailing its most shocking activities.
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The forgotten holocaust in Asia
- By Annie on 13-10-2025
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Japan's Infamous Unit 731
- Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2020
- Language: English
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Saipan
- The Battle that Doomed Japan in World War II
- By: James H. Hallas
- Narrated by: Tim Dixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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The story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple Heart Ridge, Death Valley, and Hell's Pocket, under a commander known as "Howlin' Mad." Naval combat: carriers battling carriers from afar, fighters downing Japanese aircraft, submarines sinking carriers. Marine-army rivalry. Fanatical Japanese defense and resistance. A turning point of the Pacific War. James Hallas reconstructs the full panorama of Saipan in a way that no recent chronicler of the battle has done.
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Hiroshima
- By: John Hersey
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance19
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Story19
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through...
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A must read or listen
- By RUTH on 21-09-2025
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Hiroshima
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2019
- Language: English
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Walking the Kiso Road
- A Modern-Day Exploration of Old Japan
- By: William Scott Wilson
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Take a trip to old Japan with William Scott Wilson as he travels the ancient Kiso Road, a legendary route that remains much the same today as it was hundreds of years ago. The Kisoji, which runs through the Kiso Valley in the Japanese Alps, has been in use since at least 701 CE. In the 17th century, it was the route that the daimyo (warlords) used for their biennial trips - along with their samurai and porters - to the new capital of Edo (now Tokyo).
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Walking the Kiso Road
- A Modern-Day Exploration of Old Japan
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 11-03-2016
- Language: English
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Discovering the True Self
- Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation
- By: Kodo Sawaki, Arthur Braverman - editor translator and introduction
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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As an orphan in the slums of Tsu City, Japan, Kodo Sawaki had to fight his way to adulthood, and became one of the most respected Zen masters of the twentieth century. Though he remained poor by choice, he was rich in spirit. A student of Kosho Uchiyama, Arthur Braverman has compiled an anthology of Sawaki's writings and a garland of sayings gathered from throughout his lifetime. One of a few collections of Sawaki's teachings published in English, his life and work bracket the most intriguing and influential period of modern Zen practice in Japan and America.
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Discovering the True Self
- Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2022
- Language: English
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Killing the Rising Sun
- How America Vanquished World War II Japan
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Bill O'Reilly
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance16
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Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes listeners to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant return and is plotting a full-scale invasion of Japan.
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AN eye opener - with depth and entertainment
- By Stephen Grocott on 26-07-2024
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Killing the Rising Sun
- How America Vanquished World War II Japan
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Bill O'Reilly
- Series: Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-09-2016
- Language: English
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Inazo Nitobé
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Through a study of the way of the samurai, Nitobe identifies the seven virtues most widely recognized by the Japanese: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, veracity, honor, and loyalty. In sharing these moral guidelines, handed down over generations, Nitobe gives the world unique insight into a previously unexplored code of honor.
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 10-03-2020
- Language: English
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Midnight in the Pacific
- Guadalcanal -- The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War
- By: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance8
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A sweeping narrative history -- the first in over twenty years -- of America's first major offensive of World War II, the brutal, no-quarter-given campaign to take Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal From early August until mid-November of 1942, US Marines, sailors, and pilots struggled for dominance...
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Superb.
- By Anonymous on 14-09-2017
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Midnight in the Pacific
- Guadalcanal -- The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2017
- Language: English
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- By: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, and others
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.
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Nuclear or Climate Armageddon
- By Anonymous on 18-08-2021
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2014
- Language: English
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The Rise of Modern Japan
- By: Mark J. Ravina, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Mark J. Ravina
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall29
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Performance26
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Noted Japan expert Professor Mark J. Ravina of the University of Texas at Austin covers the politics, economics, and culture of the island nation since World War II - a conflict that saw the end of Japan’s dream of regional conquest, which Professor Ravina calls Empire 1.0. The country’s postwar leaders radically changed course, renouncing a strong military to pursue Empire 2.0 - Japan as an economic colossus.
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Excellent and engaging
- By Anonymous on 04-11-2023
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The Rise of Modern Japan
- Narrated by: Mark J. Ravina
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2021
- Language: English
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Target Tokyo
- Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
- By: James M. Scott
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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The dramatic account of one of America's most celebrated - and controversial - military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid. In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors to plan an ambitious counterstrike against the heart of the Japanese Empire: Tokyo.
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Has done justice to one of history's great raids
- By Warren Thoms on 15-03-2020
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Target Tokyo
- Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2015
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Kamikaze
- A World War II Pilot's Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation
- By: Kazuo Odachi, Alexander Bennett - translator, Shigeru Ohta, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who—in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old—joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigned to the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps—a group of airmen whose mission was to sacrifice their lives by crashing planes into enemy ships. Their call sign was "ten dead, zero alive." This book offers a new perspective on these infamous suicide pilots. It is not a chronicle of war, nor is it a collection of research papers compiled by scholars. It is a transcript of Odachi's words.
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Memoirs of a Kamikaze
- A World War II Pilot's Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-03-2022
- Language: English
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Japan's Holocaust
- 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
- Unabridged
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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. This book brings together the most recent scholarship and new primary research to ascertain that Japan claimed a minimum of thirty million lives, slaughtering more than Hitler's Nazi Germany. Japan's Holocaust shows that Emperor Hirohito not only knew about the atrocities his legions committed, but actually ordered them.
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Very important, very difficult to listen to
- By Anonymous on 01-04-2025
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Japan's Holocaust
- History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2024
- Language: English
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The Japanese
- A History in Twenty Lives
- By: Christopher Harding
- Narrated by: Christopher Harding
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Brought to you by Penguin. Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to...
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The Japanese
- A History in Twenty Lives
- Narrated by: Christopher Harding
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2020
- Language: English
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- By: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance9
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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. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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Masterful
- By busby on 15-02-2025
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-12-2018
- Language: English
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The Battle for the Pacific
- Captain Macintyre's Naval History of WWII
- By: Donald Macintyre
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning with Pearl Harbor, renowned historian Donald Macintyre charts the course of the Pacific war through the major battles that shaped World War Two: Java Sea, Coral Sea, Midway, Philippine Sea, and Leyte Gulf. Of course, the Pacific theater was shaped not only by naval actions but also by closely interlocking military campaigns. Macintyre brings these amphibious struggles, which were more ferocious and wide-ranging than the world had ever seen, to the forefront of listeners' minds and demonstrates just why the Allies were able to emerge victorious.
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The Battle for the Pacific
- Captain Macintyre's Naval History of WWII
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Series: Captain Macintyre's Naval History of WWII, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 02-12-2025
- Language: English
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