Part 5: Japan Surrenders

August 1945: The surrender of Japan is announced days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WWII veterans begin the long road home. 

Guests include historian Richard Frank, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and historian John McManus. 

Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson reads an excerpt from Hiroshima by John Hersey.