Pearl Harbor : from infamy to greatness /
The America we live in was not born on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers and midget submarines suddenly attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men and forcing America's entry into World War II. Author Craig...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | The America we live in was not born on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers and midget submarines suddenly attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men and forcing America's entry into World War II. Author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, beginning in 1914 with the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, following Japan's leaders as they lurched into ultranationalist fascism, and providing a blow-by-blow account from both the Japanese and American perspectives. Backed by five years of research, Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy and heroism of the attack in stunning detail and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy's unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 532 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781451660494 : 1451660499 |