Seven days of infamy : Pearl Harbor across the world / Nicholas Best.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Best, Nicholas, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941--Public opinion.

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941--Influence.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.

World War, 1939-1945.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Military campaigns.

Public opinion.

Hawaii.

Pacific Ocean.

Physical Description:

ix, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Pearl Harbor across the world

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2016.

Summary:

"An account of the days surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor is presented through the experiences of witnesses ranging from Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kennedy to Mao Tse-tung and the Jewish inmates of the Warsaw ghetto,"--NoveList.

Contents:

Where Are Japan's Aircraft Carriers?

Still a Chance to Call It Off

All Quiet in the Pacific

Japanese Forces on the Move

Admiral Nagumo Hoists a Signal

Where Are America's Aircraft Carriers?

"The Japanese Will Not Go to War"

An Englishwoman Dances on Deck

A Strange Periscope at Sea

"Tora! Tora! Tora!"

A Japanese Pilot Grins at James Jones

Lord Mountbatten's Nephew and CBS-TV's First Breaking News Story

Edgar Rice Burroughs Watches the War Games

Future U.S. Presidents Remember the Moment

Britain Cheers the News

Opinion Divided in Europe

The Response in the Far East

The British Empire Declares War

Americans Gather Around the Radio

HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales Begin the Fight Back

First Mass Gassing of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Europe

HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales Go Down Fighting

Hitler and Mussolini Declare War on the United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781250078018

1250078016

OCLC:

940281153