Dan Carlin

Supernova in the East I-VI

Emmett

Only a 26-hour long podcast could cast WW2 in the Asia Pacific in all its harrowing brutality and variety of experience on all sides. Only words upon words upon words in a continuous stream can come close (and yet also tell of its limits!) to a full account of key political calculations and mistakes, the various military engagements and horrific acts committed in Malaya, New Guinea, Io Jima, Nanking; be a hapless spectator to senseless killing, mass suicides, acts of depravity and bravery and desperation, recreate the conditions of jungles and mountains and unrelenting tropical weather and terrain; feel and think what they must've thought when the atomic bomb was successfully invented (a supernatural weapon to rival and surpass the colossal scale of natural disasters), and pause a while to reflect on what could have been at every step if there could be an alternative, any alternative.

Supernova in the East I-VI

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