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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Near the war’s end, Japanese troops kept battling fiercely against the Americans who had invaded their home lands.
Chapter 3: Throughout the war, Japanese troops carried out brutal atrocities, and Japan resisted surrender even after intense U.S. bombings.
Chapter 4: The United States covertly built the first atomic bomb as Marines pressed on with bloody Pacific island battles.
Chapter 5: The United States tested the atomic bomb, then shipped it across the Pacific Ocean, bound directly toward Japan.
Chapter 6: Hiroshima’s bombing brought unimaginable devastation and great human misery.
Chapter 7: The Japanese Imperial Army was plainly defeated, yet the United States unleashed a second atomic bomb on Japan.
Chapter 8: After prolonged resistance, Japan finally surrendered on August 15, 1945, ending years of war.
Description
Killing the Rising Sun (2016) tells the story of the Pacific War, which took place between 1941 and 1945, and its main belligerents, the United States and Japan. From the attack on Pearl Harbor to bloody invasions of Japan to the development of the world’s first atomic bomb, the book portrays the brutality of World War II from a US perspective, and describes how the war was eventually won.
Who Should Listen
- Fans of world history and politics
- Military enthusiasts
- Anyone obsessed with or fascinated by the story of World War II