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December 7, 1941 : The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: : Open Road Media, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (895 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781480489509
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: December 7, 1941 : The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl HarborDDC classification:
  • 940.54/26
LOC classification:
  • D767.92 .P7215 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- PART 1 "Something Was Going to Happen" -- CHAPTER 1. "Time Was Running Out" -- CHAPTER 2. "Just Another Saturday" -- CHAPTER 3. "An Air of Tenseness" -- CHAPTER 4. "A Wonderful Evening" -- PART 2 "Tora! Tora! Tora!" -- CHAPTER 5. "That Rather Hectic Morning" -- CHAPTER 6. "About to Launch a Blow" -- CHAPTER 7. "To the Point of Attack" -- CHAPTER 8. "Suitable Dawn for the Epoch-Making Day" -- CHAPTER 9. "We've Made It!" -- PART 3 "The Sky Was Full of the Enemy" -- CHAPTER 10. "Japanese! Man Your Stations!" -- CHAPTER 11. "Great Ships Were Dying" -- CHAPTER 12. "Through the Smoke and Flames" -- CHAPTER 13. "A Terrible Hour" -- PART 4 "Under Constant and Continuous Attacks" -- CHAPTER 14. "This Is Not Drill" -- CHAPTER 15. "Somebody Is Going to Pay for This" -- CHAPTER 16. "Tearing the Place to Pieces" -- CHAPTER 17. "Bedlam and Bombs and Bullets" -- CHAPTER 18. "It's the Real Thing, Boys" -- PART 5 "A Tragic Hour" -- CHAPTER 19. "A Heart-Breaking Scene" -- CHAPTER 20. "What Is Going to Happen Next?" -- CHAPTER 21. "We Wanted to Fight" -- CHAPTER 22. "Terrible, Simply Terrible" -- PART 6 "Back to Their Battle Stations" -- CHAPTER 23. "The Japanese Bombers Swarmed Down on Us Like Bees" -- CHAPTER 24. "The Desperate Urgency" -- CHAPTER 25. "A Mass of Twisted Wreckage" -- CHAPTER 26. "This Time Our Aim Was Better" -- CHAPTER 27. "A Mixed-Up Affair" -- PART 7 "A Date That Will Live in Infamy" -- CHAPTER 28. "They Didn't Have Their Right Bearings" -- CHAPTER 29. "What a Welcome Sight!" -- CHAPTER 30. "Rumors Were Coming In Fast and Furious" -- CHAPTER 31. "Everybody Thought the Japanese Would Be Back" -- CHAPTER 32. "Jumpy and Trigger-Happy" -- CHAPTER 33. "At Last Came the Dawn" -- CHAPTER 34. "Hostilities Exist" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography.
Table of Comparative Times -- Epilogue -- Index -- Image Gallery -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.
Summary: A minute-by-minute account of the morning that changed America foreverWhen 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 captivating 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.
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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.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- PART 1 "Something Was Going to Happen" -- CHAPTER 1. "Time Was Running Out" -- CHAPTER 2. "Just Another Saturday" -- CHAPTER 3. "An Air of Tenseness" -- CHAPTER 4. "A Wonderful Evening" -- PART 2 "Tora! Tora! Tora!" -- CHAPTER 5. "That Rather Hectic Morning" -- CHAPTER 6. "About to Launch a Blow" -- CHAPTER 7. "To the Point of Attack" -- CHAPTER 8. "Suitable Dawn for the Epoch-Making Day" -- CHAPTER 9. "We've Made It!" -- PART 3 "The Sky Was Full of the Enemy" -- CHAPTER 10. "Japanese! Man Your Stations!" -- CHAPTER 11. "Great Ships Were Dying" -- CHAPTER 12. "Through the Smoke and Flames" -- CHAPTER 13. "A Terrible Hour" -- PART 4 "Under Constant and Continuous Attacks" -- CHAPTER 14. "This Is Not Drill" -- CHAPTER 15. "Somebody Is Going to Pay for This" -- CHAPTER 16. "Tearing the Place to Pieces" -- CHAPTER 17. "Bedlam and Bombs and Bullets" -- CHAPTER 18. "It's the Real Thing, Boys" -- PART 5 "A Tragic Hour" -- CHAPTER 19. "A Heart-Breaking Scene" -- CHAPTER 20. "What Is Going to Happen Next?" -- CHAPTER 21. "We Wanted to Fight" -- CHAPTER 22. "Terrible, Simply Terrible" -- PART 6 "Back to Their Battle Stations" -- CHAPTER 23. "The Japanese Bombers Swarmed Down on Us Like Bees" -- CHAPTER 24. "The Desperate Urgency" -- CHAPTER 25. "A Mass of Twisted Wreckage" -- CHAPTER 26. "This Time Our Aim Was Better" -- CHAPTER 27. "A Mixed-Up Affair" -- PART 7 "A Date That Will Live in Infamy" -- CHAPTER 28. "They Didn't Have Their Right Bearings" -- CHAPTER 29. "What a Welcome Sight!" -- CHAPTER 30. "Rumors Were Coming In Fast and Furious" -- CHAPTER 31. "Everybody Thought the Japanese Would Be Back" -- CHAPTER 32. "Jumpy and Trigger-Happy" -- CHAPTER 33. "At Last Came the Dawn" -- CHAPTER 34. "Hostilities Exist" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography.

Table of Comparative Times -- Epilogue -- Index -- Image Gallery -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.

A minute-by-minute account of the morning that changed America foreverWhen 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 captivating 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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