Show 64 - Supernova in the East III
Update: 2019-10-24
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Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe.
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love this!
Love the show dan! Thanks for doing what you do. Your attention to detail and efforts to contextualise situations are great
Love the show dan! Thanks for doing what you do. Your attention to detail and efforts to contextualise situations are great
I got a little laugh out of you calling the attacking force on the Eastern front "the Wehrmacht and friends" lol
We need more podcasts please!! I cant wait much longer.
your wife was right...😁👏🏾
Jesus FUCKING christ Dan...I love the show buddy, but I'm 3.5 hours into the last FIVE HOUR segment and still only a passing mention to the atomic bombs.... get to it!!!
thanks, Dan. great as always!
Finally finished. Great work here, Dan. this episode was as good as the episodes from blueprint for Armageddon, which are my favorite in your collection. I have one disagreement, however. Ed King doesn't look like a hero at all, in any way. He was a coward who condemned his men to the Bataan Death March. I find it very generous the only consequence he suffered from the United States was to have his family name thrown in the trash heap where it belongs.
Dan, wonderful stuff so far. About 2 hours and 50 minutes in I have to say you're equivocating for cowardice in the surrender of the Singapore and the actions of Australian troops who cowered down in fear on the battlefield amidst hand to hand combat. it was cowardice then and it's still cowardice today. Stalingrad. How the war might have been different if the Russians had the same spine as the Imperial British forces.
FINALLY
Dan, I am enjoying this episode quite a bit. I want to comment upon a theory proffered by a historian you quote at about 1 hour and 35 minutes into the podcast. He claims the hundreds of years taken to develop the concept of honorable surrender had a lot to do with westerners inability to obey suicidal orders. I think that concept is of marginal value. I think the very recent experience of World War I and its assembly line style of death was by far and away the most important factor.
Just finished your book, I enjoyed it. But... it feels like a less fleshed out version of things you've already covered in HCH. For someone who isn't a longtime fan, it will be very informative and interesting. For the rest of us it was sort of a retread of topics you've covered in much more detail in other places.
Really enjoyed the detail in this one. Was thinking this was the last episode. Clearly isn't. I hope the remaining episodes are more regular.
such a long wait for such a boring episode...
I'd wait far longer for these shows
Yay!!!!!
Just got back from vacation and seen new hardcore history! I'm actually excited to go back to work now just so I can listen to this.