Hull agreed.47 He was still waiting for the ambassadors when the president telephoned from the White House shortly after 1:30. “There's a report that the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor.” FDR's voice was steady but clipped.
This account of the Pearl Harbor attack denies that the lack of preparation resulted from military negligence or a political plot
A terrifying attack! On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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...
Investigates questions surrounding the December 7, 1941 attack and examines how that event is interwoven with the rise of Japanese economics and our response to it.
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Includes excerpts from The Mayflower and Women's right to vote.
In this story of innocence, heroism, sacrifice, and unfathomable blindness, Shaara's gift for storytelling uses these familiar wartime themes to shine a light on the personal, the painful, the tragic, and the thrilling--and on a crucial ...
Describes the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, using eyewitness accounts to tell the true story.
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.
Visiting his favorite Hawaiian beach when Japanese forces suddenly attack Pearl Harbor, 11-year-old Danny Crane struggles through the smoke, destruction and chaos to make his way back home.