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Pearl Harbor - From Infamy to Greatness

By: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd)


Product Info

Title
Pearl Harbor - From Infamy to Greatness
Category
Author
Craig Nelson
Publish Year
2018
Pages
528
Dimensions
5x7.75x1.25"
NKG Part #
2148176958
Type
Softcover

Description

The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when almost four hundred Japanese planes attacked the US Pacific fleet, killing 2,400 men and sinking or damaging sixteen ships. In Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness, Nelson follows, moment by moment, the sailors, soldiers, pilots, admirals, generals, emperors, and presidents, all starting with a pre-polio Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, attending the laying of the keel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard of the USS Arizona, against the backdrop of the imperial, military, and civilian leaders of Japan lurching into ultranationalist fascism, all culminating into an insanely daring scheme to shock the Allies with a technologically-revolutionary mission in one of the boldest military stories ever told—one with consequences that continue to echo in our lives today.