Japan World War

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.

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. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India and Burma. 

A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall...

World War 2 for Kids: Amazing Facts, Heroic Stories & Real History Brought to LifeDiscover the incredible true stories, daring missions, and unbelievable facts that shaped the modern world! Packed with over 40 real photographs, World War 2 for Kids is a fun, fact-filled adventure through one of history’s most important chapters — perfect for children, students, and even adults who love learning something new. 👉 Inside you'll explore: The causes of World War 2 and how one event set the world on fire. The major battles and turning points — from D-Day to the Pacific. The rise and fall...

The stories of World War 2 will forever be imprinted in our collective human mind. Unrivaled in loss of life, boundless destruction, and decisions that changed the world as we knew it, these stories have gone down in history. From concentration camps to aerial strikes, the war waged in increasingly brutal ways as it progressed. But how much do you really know about what happened during those years? These are the stories you won’t read about in any textbook. The Wanton massacre of civilians and the torture of prisoners of war was only the beginning. It can be easy to forget the horrors ...

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. The Knights of Bushido, Russell's shocking account of Japanese brutality in the Pacific in World War II, describes how the noble founding principles of the Empire of Japan were perverted by the military into a systematic campaign of torture, murder, starvation, rape, and destruction. Notorious incidents like the Nanking Massacre and the Bataan Death March emerge as merely part of a pattern of human rights abuses. Undoubtedly formidable soldiers, the Japanese were terrible conquerors. Their conduct in the Pacific is a harrowing example of the doctrine of mutual destruction carried to the extreme, and begs the question of what is acceptable—and unacceptable—in total war.

The Japanese War Machine in 1945: Secret and Special Weapons of Imperial Japan By Alan Yuen In the final year of the Second World War, Imperial Japan faced overwhelming industrial, material, and strategic disadvantage. Yet even as its conventional military power declined, Japan fielded a remarkable array of advanced, unconventional, and desperate weapons in an attempt to alter the course of the war. The Japanese War Machine in 1945 is a deeply researched and visually rich examination of the weapons, technologies, and strategic doctrines that defined Japan’s final wartime efforts. ...

This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.

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.

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The...

Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan still looked unstoppable. Its forces had swept across the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Singapore had fallen. The Philippines had been overwhelmed. The Dutch East Indies had been seized. Japan had gained oil, territory, bases, and momentum. But the American aircraft carriers had survived Pearl Harbor. At Midway, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto planned to finish what Pearl Harbor had not. Japan would seize Midway Atoll, lure out the remaining American carriers, and destroy them in a decisive naval battle. Instead, American codebreakers uncovered the target, ...

Stan Paregien tells about life as it really was for people in the United States and for our military men and women who served not only in the U.S. but on war fronts around the globe. And it includes 87 photos and 58 graphics. It is all about real life, the tide that sends waves rushing high on the shore only to retreat, regenerate, and rush headlong, again. Get ready for a unique journey through time with a veteran storyteller. The contents of this book have, well, an “unusual” organization. Stan explains it this way: “It doesn’t sound radical to say the events described here are ...

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.

The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard 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...

In 1908, at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for 13 years in Peking’s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi’s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring taxing labor.

The military general who became Emperor Hirohito’s prime minister, Tojo Hideki is most often remembered as an iron-fisted leader who dragged Japan into World War II and—after spectacular losses—was eventually executed as a war criminal. Yet Tojo was far more than his ignominious end. In...

"[Narrator Erin] Bennett’s reading is never overdone; her directness neither shies away from [author Christine] Kuehn’s unpleasant revelations nor sensationalizes them...her light expression lets the dramatic details speak for themselves." — Booklist "[Narrator Erin] Bennett's enunciation...

By midsummer 1945, Japan had long since lost the war in the Pacific. The people were not told the truth, and neither was the emperor. Japanese generals, admirals, and statesmen knew, but only a handful of leaders were willing to accept defeat. Most were bent on fighting the Allies until the last Japanese soldier died and the last city burned to the ground.

This is Vol. 2 – World War I to the Vietnam War Also available on Amazon...Vol. 1 - Colonial to Pre-World War I For nearly two centuries, the story of America has been written in conflict, sacrifice, innovation, and survival. From colonial militias standing against the British Empire to the jungles of Vietnam, American Military History traces the evolution of the United States Army and the nation it helped shape. Originally published as part of the official Army Historical Series, this massive historical volume offers a sweeping look at the campaigns, leaders, strategies, and turning ...

In the last days of World War II, a new weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detail what it was like to experience an attack by Japanese kamikazes. Born of desperation in the face of overwhelming material superiority, suicide attacks—by aircraft, submarines, small boats, and even manned rocket-boosted gliders—were capable of inflicting catastrophic damage, testing the resolve of officers and sailors as never before.