Author : Gordon William Prange
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
"The last of the Prange manuscripts about Pearl Harbor"--Page ix. A detailed chronological account of the day. Includes reminiscences of officers, both American and Japanese.
Author : Scott C. S. Stone
Publisher : Island Heritage
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896102194
This perennial best seller details the explosive events of December 7, 1941, the day Japanese war planes attacked Pearl Harbor, launching America into World War II. Historic photographs and detailed renderings help illustrate the insightful text by veteran author Scott C.S. Stone.
Author : Daniel Allen Butler
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1612004431
“Simultaneously sweeping and intimate . . . an eminently readable and engrossing account of the actions that pulled America into the Second World War.” —Parks Stephenson, producer, The Fight for Owens Pearl: December 7, 1941 is the story of how America and Japan, two nations with seemingly little over which to quarrel, let peace slip away, so that on that “day which will live in infamy,” more than 350 dive bombers, high-level bombers, torpedo planes, and fighters of the Imperial Japanese Navy did their best to cripple the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet, killing 2,403 American servicemen and civilians, and wounding another 1,178. It’s a story of emperors and presidents, diplomats and politicians, admirals and generals—and it’s also the tale of ordinary sailors, soldiers, and airmen, all of whom were overtaken by a rush of events that ultimately overwhelmed them. Pearl shows the real reasons why America’s political and military leaders underestimated Japan’s threat against America’s security, and why their Japanese counterparts ultimately felt compelled to launch the Pearl Harbor attack. Pearl offers more than superficial answers, showing how both sides blundered their way through arrogance, over-confidence, racism, bigotry, and old-fashioned human error to arrive at the moment when the Japanese were convinced that there was no alternative to war. Once the battle is joined, Pearl then takes the reader into the heart of the attack, where the fighting men of both nations showed that neither side had a monopoly on heroism, courage, cowardice, or luck, as they fought to protect their nations. “An engrossing read on a well-tread but important subject. Pearl will interest readers new to this history and satiate military historians.” —Air & Space Power Journal
Author : Susan Wels
Publisher : Laurel Glen Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
ISBN : 9781571457110
Author : Robert Stinnett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2001-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743201292
Using previously unreleased documents, the author reveals new evidence that FDR knew the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing to prevent it.
Author : Jeffrey J. Gudmens
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Japan
ISBN : 142891644X
Author : Yoshikuni Igarashi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1400842980
Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan.
Author : H. P. Willmott
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297846642
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.
Author : Julie Murray
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1098281942
This title will help readers understand the causes, timeline, and aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The title is complete with glossary, index, and additional facts. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core Standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.
Author : Craig Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1451660510
“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. 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, killing 2,403 men—and forced America’s entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history. Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan’s leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same. Backed by a research team’s five years of work, as well as Nelson’s thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work “weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies” (Kirkus Reviews). 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.
