![]() ![]() The former covers the war from the start, the latter from later in the war. While there are many such books now available readers should not go wrong by starting with those by Ian Toll (Pacific Crucible, The Conquering Tide) or James Hornfischer. But for those really interested in learning about the attack itself, this book serves more as a companion piece for more detailed books covering the war in the Pacific. The narrator, Grover Gardner, has the perfect voice and pace for this type of book and, although much information is missing, especially from the Japanese side, the book is well worth listening to for someone who wants a more personal and less academic view of the terrible events of December 7, 1941. This book is quite old, having been written in 1957, so it lacks information that has been gleaned in the intervening years through research, but it is still a worthwhile look at the event that started World War II for the US. Often the narrations, although compelling, fail to tell us how the events hung together and what the views of the commanders were, so the book ends up being a mixed bag. Sometimes this narration tells much that an overall account could not, as with the description of how one mess stewart, with no training, took control of one of the machine guns firing at the attacking Japanese planes, how one sailor stayed at his machine gun while the fires raged around him and how sailors trapped below decks waited for either rescue from their sunk ships, or suffocation as the air ran out. Thus we understand the attacks on the US battleships by hearing what sailors and marines on the ships did, what they could not do, what they saw and how they reacted. There is no overall high level view of what happened, or a moment by moment description of the events, but rather the story is the sum of all of the individual accounts. This book is very different in that the entire attack is viewed through the individual actions on hundreds of people, US sailors, marines, soldiers and civilians as well as Japanese sailors. Many of those give detailed explanations of what happened, when it happened and how each event affected the overall attack. ![]() N° de ref.There are many detailed books concerning the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that catapulted the US into World War 2 as an active combatant instead of its then current role as weapons and food supplier, including those from both the US and the Japanese perspective. Lord wrote, or edited and annotated 11 bestselling books on such diverse subjects as Pearl Harbor (Day of Infamy, 1957), the Battle of Midway (Incredible Victory, 1967), the Battle of the Alamo (A Time to Stand, 1961), the Battle of Baltimore (The Dawn's Early Light, 1972), Arctic exploration (Peary to the Pole, 1963), pre-World War I America (The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War, 1960), Coastwatchers (Lonely Vigil, 1977), and the civil rights struggle (The Past That Would Not Die, 1965). Afterwards, Lord returned to Yale, where he earned a degree in law. He was the agency's secretariat when the war ended in 1945. During World War II, he was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services as a code clerk in London, in 1942. Lord then enrolled at Yale Law School, interrupting his studies to join the United States Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Following high school at Baltimore's Gilman School, he studied history at Princeton University and graduated in 1939. In July 1926, at the age of 9, Lord traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Cherbourg and Southampton, on the RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship. (OctoMay 19, 2002), was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account A Night to Remember (1955), about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order. He has gone down in infamy as one of the top soldiers from the Murder Capital. ![]() ![]() Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Read reviews and buy Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary - 60th Edition by Walter Lord (Paperback) at Target. Wayne Perry is the man who protected self-proclaimed Harlem drug lord and. Original Hardcover with vintage dustjacket in protective Mylar. ![]()
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