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America’s “day of infamy” at Pearl Harbor is the birth of a new Japanese empire. Japan launches unprecedented attacks across Asia, proclaiming “Asia for the Asians” and pushing out Western colonial powers. Fueled by ideology, Japan’s armies are seemingly unstoppable – until a confrontation with the 1st Marine Division of the United States at Guadalcanal becomes a testing ground in a war without mercy.
This episode features interviews with (in order of appearance):
- General Wesley Clark, US Army, Ret.
- Jonathan Parshall, military historian, US Naval War College
- Robert Citino, senior historian, National WWII Museum
- Saul David, military historian and author
- Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster
- Christopher Harding, cultural historian, University of Edinburgh
- Dan Carlin, podcaster, Hardcore History
- Takima Melber, the University of Heidelberg
- Colonel Douglas Douds, professor, US Army War College
- Geoffrey Wawro, professor, University of North Texas
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