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Hello everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's history. I am Dan Snow. On the podcast today,

we have got an episode of our sibling podcast, Warfare. It's all about military history, folks.

Military history, from the early modern to the 20th century, presented by James Rogers. In this episode, he talks to Saul David about the Battle of Okinawa.

One of the last great battles of the Second World War fought on the island of Okinawa.

When US troops landed on the 1st of April, 1945, it was the largest single amphibious assault in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

It was savage, savage battle lasting 100 days, but it was decided that Okinawa was essential for the final operation downfall, the invasion of the Japanese homelands, which would have taken place after it.

It never, of course, happened because the dropping of the nuclear bombs and the Japanese surrender.

But Okinawa is only about 500 kilometres away from the Japanese home islands.

For this podcast, James talked to the brilliant Saul David. He's been on my podcast many times,

and now it's great to have him on warfare. He's a professor of military history at the University of Buckingham. He's just written Crucible

of Hell about this campaign. And he is a wonderful, wonderful guy. If you like what you hear,

you can go and subscribe to warfare wherever you get your podcasts. You can also do something else

for me, folks. You can go and check out

HistoryHit.tv. We've got a battle royale going at the moment. We've got Eleanor Yaniga's

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