The Pacific Story — 1943
23 episodes broadcast in 1943.
The series opens with a wide survey of the Pacific war and Japan's drive for empire, setting up the weeks to come.
Alaska as America's northern frontier, with Owen Lattimore picturing a future road linking the territory to Siberia and Asia beyond.
A portrait of Siberia, America's nearest Asiatic neighbor across the Bering Strait.
The long sweep of old China's history.
Modern China and its war against the Japanese invasion.
How the monsoon's rains and rice harvests shape the lives of Asia's peoples -- and the course of the war.
India's road from British conquest under Clive to Gandhi's struggle for independence.
Burma as the keystone of the Far East, with an analysis of its wartime situation.
The Philippines' fight for freedom, with Owen Lattimore on American policy toward the islands.
A portrait of Chiang Kai-shek, with Henry Luce hailing him as the man who bound China together.
Australia's rise as a power in the wartime Pacific.
Japan's militarist secret societies and the shadowy power of Mitsuru Toyama, with Hillis Lory on political assassination.
Thailand's history and its conquest by Japan -- and the strongman both Japan and the Thai people came to despise.
French Indochina, France's "balcony on the Pacific," fallen under Japanese control.
The history and peoples of the Dutch East Indies, waiting for liberation.
Jose Rizal, the Philippine patriot and martyr executed by a Spanish firing squad in 1896.
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