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  • How to Lose a War The Best Laid Plans (Season 1, Episode 2)
  • TV Episode | 50 min | Documentary, History, War

How to Lose a War

The Best Laid Plans (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | 50 min | Documentary, History, War

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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Updated Nov 10, 2023

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Nov 10, 2023 (United Kingdom)

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33 cast members
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Rana Mitter
Self - Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford Self - Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford   See fewer
Sandra Wilson
Self - Professor of History, Murdoch University Self - Professor of History, Murdoch University   See fewer
Yuma Totani
Self - Historian, University of Hawaii (as Professor Yuma Totani) Self - Historian, University of Hawaii (as Professor Yuma Totani)   See fewer
Guy Walters
Self - Author and Historian Self - Author and Historian   See fewer
Alexander Henry
Self - Author, 'War Through Italian Eyes', University of Nottingham (as Dr Alexander Henry) Self - Author, 'War Through Italian Eyes', University of Nottingham (as Dr Alexander Henry)   See fewer
Richard Hammond
Self - Senior Lecturer, Brunel University (as Dr Richard Hammond) Self - Senior Lecturer, Brunel University (as Dr Richard Hammond)   See fewer
David Stahel
Self - Author, 'Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East', The University of New South Wales (as Dr David Stahel) Self - Author, 'Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East', The University of New South Wales (as Dr David Stahel)   See fewer
Russell A. Hart
Self - Professor of History, Hawai'i Pacific University (as Dr Russell A. Hart) Self - Professor of History, Hawai'i Pacific University (as Dr Russell A. Hart)   See fewer
Gregory P. Gilbert
Self - Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW, Canberra (as Dr Gregory P. Gilbert) Self - Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW, Canberra (as Dr Gregory P. Gilbert)   See fewer
Milan Vego
Self - Professor of Operations, US Naval War College (as Dr Milan Vego) Self - Professor of Operations, US Naval War College (as Dr Milan Vego)   See fewer
Briony Williams
Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice)   See fewer
Neville Chamberlain
Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage) Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage)   See fewer
Kai-Shek Chiang
Self - Nationalist Leader (archive footage) (as Chiang Kai-Shek) Self - Nationalist Leader (archive footage) (as Chiang Kai-Shek)   See fewer
Winston Churchill
Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage) Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage)   See fewer
Duke of Windsor
Self - King of the United Kingdom (archive footage) Self - King of the United Kingdom (archive footage)   See fewer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (archive footage) Self - Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (archive footage)   See fewer
Hermann Göring
Self - Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (archive footage) Self - Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (archive footage)   See fewer
Franz Halder
Self - Chief of Staff, Army High Command (archive footage) Self - Chief of Staff, Army High Command (archive footage)   See fewer
Heinrich Himmler
Self - Reichsführer of the SS (archive footage) Self - Reichsführer of the SS (archive footage)   See fewer
Hirohito
Self - Emperor of Japan (archive footage) Self - Emperor of Japan (archive footage)   See fewer
Adolf Hitler
Self - Führer of Germany (archive footage) Self - Führer of Germany (archive footage)   See fewer
Vyacheslav Molotov
Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (archive footage) Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (archive footage)   See fewer
Benito Mussolini
Self - Prime Minister of Italy (archive footage) Self - Prime Minister of Italy (archive footage)   See fewer
Chiuichi Nagumo
Self - Vice Admiral (archive footage) (as Chuichi Nagumo) Self - Vice Admiral (archive footage) (as Chuichi Nagumo)   See fewer
Chester W. Nimitz
Self - Naval Commander In Chief (archive footage) (as Chester Nimitz) Self - Naval Commander In Chief (archive footage) (as Chester Nimitz)   See fewer
Puyi
Self - Last Emperor of China (archive footage) (as Aisin-Gioro Puyi) Self - Last Emperor of China (archive footage) (as Aisin-Gioro Puyi)   See fewer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - President of the United States (archive footage) Self - President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
Joseph Stalin
Self - General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) Self - General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin)   See fewer
Kurt Student
Self - Luftwaffe General (archive footage) Self - Luftwaffe General (archive footage)   See fewer
Hideki Tôjô
Self - Prime Minister of Japan (archive footage) (as Hideki Tojo) Self - Prime Minister of Japan (archive footage) (as Hideki Tojo)   See fewer
Bernhard von Lossberg
Self - Germany Army Lieutenant Colonel (archive footage) Self - Germany Army Lieutenant Colonel (archive footage)   See fewer
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self - Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage) Self - Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)   See fewer
Isoroku Yamamoto
Self - Marshal Admiral (archive footage) (as Isoroko Yamamoto) Self - Marshal Admiral (archive footage) (as Isoroko Yamamoto)   See fewer
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