Battlefield: Great Battles of WWII - Episode 3: USSR vs Japan

Editor's Take

This Battlefield episode covers the forgotten August 1945 campaign in which the Soviet Union crushed Japan's Kwantung Army in Manchuria, a decisive blow often overshadowed by the atomic bombs. It is a useful corrective for anyone whose picture of Japan's surrender stops at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This episode of the Battlefield series revisits the often-forgotten Soviet campaign against Japan in the final days of World War II. It challenges the idea that the atomic bombs alone ended the war, examining how the Red Army's swift offensive in Manchuria hastened Japan's surrender. Archive footage and analysis reconstruct the scale and speed of the assault. Detailed and revealing, it restores a neglected chapter of the war. Free to stream in 4K on Dr Documentary.

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