December 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl HarborOpen Road Media, 6 de maig 2014 - 507 pàgines A minute-by-minute account of the morning that brought America into World War II, by the New York Times–bestselling authors of At Dawn We Slept. When dawn broke over Hawaii on December 7, 1941, no one suspected that America was only minutes from war. By nightfall, the naval base at Pearl Harbor was a smoldering ruin, and over 2,000 Americans lay dead. December 7, 1941 gives a detailed and immersive real-time account of that fateful morning. In or out of uniform, every witness responded differently when the first Japanese bombs began to fall. A chaplain fled his post and spent a week in hiding, while mess hall workers seized a machine gun and began returning fire. Some officers were taken unawares, while others responded valiantly, rallying their men to fight back and in some cases sacrificing their lives. Built around eyewitness accounts, this book provides an unprecedented glimpse of how it felt to be at Pearl Harbor on the day that would live in infamy. |
Continguts
An Air of Tenseness | |
PART 2 | |
About to Launch a Blow | |
To the Point of Attack | |
Suitable Dawn for the EpochMaking Day | |
The Desperate Urgency | |
This Time Our Aim Was Better | |
A MixedUp Affair | |
PART 5 | |
PART 7 | |
What a Welcome Sight | |
Rumors Were Coming In Fast and Furious | |
Everybody Thought the Japanese Would Be Back | |
PART 3 | |
Great Ships Were Dying | |
Through the Smoke and Flames | |
PART 6 | |
A Terrible Hour | |
PART 4 | |
Somebody Is Going to Pay for This | |
Bedlam and Bombs and Bullets | |
Its the Real Thing Boys | |
Back to Their Battle Stations | |
Jumpy and TriggerHappy | |
At Last Came the Dawn | |
Hostilities Exist | |
Notes | |
A HeartBreaking Scene | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Table of Comparative Times | |
Image Gallery | |
About the Authors | |
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