This eye-popping, large-size, and image-packed book about the infamous sneak attack that changed the course of history will keep readers fascinated. Through bold images previously unseen outside of Japan, and an authoritative, up-to-date text, the shocking event that was Pearl Harbor unfolds.
This account of the Pearl Harbor attack denies that the lack of preparation resulted from military negligence or a political plot
Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed it "A day that will live in infamy"-December 7, 1941, the one date from the Second World War that almost every American knows by heart. Pearl...
The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States ...
Includes excerpts from The Mayflower and Women's right to vote.
The core of the book concerns the events of December 7, 1941, as seen through the eyes of participants, both American and Japanese, military and civilian.
ÒNothing previously published has offered such a close examination of Japanese strategy . . . an in-depth study of the Japanese planning, preparation and execution of the attack with particular focus on factors not thoroughly considered by ...
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Offers young readers a guide to the events that led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the episodes that followed as a result of it.
In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor in American Memory Emily S. Rosenberg. Knox, a Republican whom Roosevelt had added to the cabinet in 1940 to give his foreign policy a more ... Headed by retired Supreme Court justice Owen J. Roberts and comprised ...