<p>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.</p><p>This episode features interviews with (in order of appearance):</p><ul><li>General Wesley Clark, US Army, Ret.</li><li>Jonathan Parshall, military historian, US Naval War College</li><li>Robert Citino, senior historian, National WWII Museum</li><li>Saul David, military historian and author</li><li>Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster</li><li>Christopher Harding, cultural historian, University of Edinburgh</li><li>Dan Carlin, podcaster, Hardcore History</li><li>Takima Melber, the University of Heidelberg</li><li>Colonel Douglas Douds, professor, US Army War College</li><li>Geoffrey Wawro, professor, University of North Texas</li></ul>