This discussion treats the end of the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-1945, not from the limited view centered on the US and Japan (and mention of the Soviet Union) but from a global perspective. Steeped in the most current scholarship on this important subject in American history, Frank explores the harrowing alternatives that faced American leaders, particularly those not involving atomic bombs. It further follows the basic principles of counting all the dead and treating them as sharing a common humanity.
RICHARD B. FRANK
Upon college graduation in 1969, Frank was commissioned in the U.S. Army, in which he served a tour of duty in the Republic of Vietnam as a Rifle Platoon Leader in the 101st Airborne Division. In 1976, he completed his studies at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC and the following year initiated research for his first book, Guadalcanal - The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, including extensive work with a Japanese translator on the massive Japanese Defense Agency War History series. In July of 2007, his contribution to Palgrave’s Great General Series, MacArthur, was released. He worked as a consultant for the HBO miniseries The Pacific that aired in the spring of 2010. Mr. Frank is now working on a trilogy on the Asian-Pacific War 1937-1945.
This video is a recording from the Admiral Nimitz Foundation 2020 Annual Symposium.
This program was funded in-part by donations from Humanities Texas, Texas Pioneer Foundation, and Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
29 июл 2021