Pearl Harbor : from infamy to greatness

Title Pearl Harbor : from infamy to greatness
Names Nelson, Craig.
Book Number DB126963
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "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. Besides the little understood history of how and why Japan attacked America, we can hear the abandoned record player endlessly repeating "Sunrise Serenade" as the Japanese bombs hit the deck of the California, we feel terror as Navy wives, helped by their Japanese maids, upturn couches for cover and hide with their children in caves from a rumored invasion, and we understand the mix of frustration and triumph as a lone American teenager shoots down a Japanese bomber. Backed by a research team's five years of efforts with archives and interviews producing nearly a million pages of documents, as well as a thorough re-examination of the original evidence produced by federal investigators, this definitive history provides a blow-by-blow account from both the Japanese and American perspectives and is a historical drama on the greatest scale."-- From publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Guidall, George.
Local Subject General history of Europe - 940
War-fiction or nonfiction - WAR
War--American Military History - WAM
War--World War Two - WWT
History - United States - HUS
History, U.S. - 20th Century - HUT
Sea Stories - SEA
Asian American and Pacific Islander Interest - AAP
History - Asia - HWA
Aviation - AVI
Exclusion - Violence - VI
Current Talking Book Topics - TBT
Exclusion - Male Narrator - MN
Exclusion - Long Book - LO
LC Subject Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Hawaii
Informational works
Nonfiction
Call Number 940.5426693 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2016 9781508227281 2016
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