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Pearl Harbor, from infamy to greatness, Craig Nelson

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Pearl Harbor, from infamy to greatness, Craig Nelson

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eng

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history

Main title

Pearl Harbor

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948559484

Responsibility statement

Craig Nelson

Sub title

from infamy to greatness

Summary

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. The author 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

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