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Although war with Germany’s ally Japan was thought likely, and its ambitions of seizing natural resources it lacked were well known, the surprise air attack on the US Navy’s base at Pearl Harbor on Oa

BBC History Magazine

We don’t talk about the war in asia – which was a messy, complicated conflict

Matt Elton Your new series, exploring fighting on the Asian front during the Second World War, is called The History Podcast: The Second Map. Why did you choose that name? Kavita Puri It came to me af

History of War

“rain of ruin” path to hiroshima

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

History of War

Victory in burma

Lieutenant General Bill Slim had a cunning plan to unstitch the Japanese defence of Burma in 1945

Radio Times Magazine

Lest we forget

To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, John Eskdale and other survivors share their harrowing memories of war and stories of hope

BBC History Magazine

The lost mayor of hiroshima

Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f

Who Do You Think You Are?

Vj day

BBC History Magazine

We don’t talk about the war in asia – which was a messy, complicated conflict

History of War

“rain of ruin” path to hiroshima

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

History of War

Victory in burma

Lieutenant General Bill Slim had a cunning plan to unstitch the Japanese defence of Burma in 1945

Radio Times Magazine

Lest we forget