How to Lose a War

The Best Laid Plans

Directed by Tim Bosanquet
S1 • E2    Nov 9, 2023
7.7
Explore how the seeds of Japan's defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China.

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Cast of The Best Laid Plans

  • Rana MitterSelf - Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford
  • Sandra WilsonSelf - Professor of History, Murdoch University
  • Yuma TotaniSelf - Historian, University of Hawaii
  • Guy WaltersSelf - Author and Historian
  • Alexander HenrySelf - Author, 'War Through Italian Eyes', University of Nottingham
  • Richard HammondSelf - Senior Lecturer, Brunel University
  • David StahelSelf - Author, 'Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East', The University of New South Wales
  • Russell A. HartSelf - Professor of History, Hawai'i Pacific University
  • Gregory P. GilbertSelf - Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW, Canberra
  • Milan VegoSelf - Professor of Operations, US Naval War College
  • Briony WilliamsNarrator
  • Neville ChamberlainSelf - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Lai SekSelf - Nationalist Leader
  • Winston ChurchillSelf - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • King Edward VIII of the United KingdomSelf - King of the United Kingdom
  • Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf - Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
  • Hermann GöringSelf - Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe
  • Franz HalderSelf - Chief of Staff, Army High Command
  • Heinrich HimmlerSelf - Reichsführer of the SS
  • Emperor Hirohito of JapanSelf - Emperor of Japan
  • Adolf HitlerSelf - Führer of Germany
  • Vyacheslav MolotovSelf - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
  • Benito MussoliniSelf - Prime Minister of Italy
  • Chiuichi NagumoSelf - Vice Admiral
  • Chester W. NimitzSelf - Naval Commander In Chief
  • Aisin-Gioro PuyiSelf - Last Emperor of China
  • Franklin D. RooseveltSelf - President of the United States
  • Joseph StalinSelf - General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Kurt StudentSelf - Luftwaffe General
  • Hideki TojoSelf - Prime Minister of Japan
  • Bernhard von LossbergSelf - Germany Army Lieutenant Colonel
  • Joachim von RibbentropSelf - Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs
  • Isoroku YamamotoSelf - Marshal Admiral
  • Tim BosanquetDirector
  • Michael CoveWriter
  • Laura DawesWriter
  • Lynnette HaasWriter
  • Edmund DuffProducer

 

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