
Pearl Harbor
From Infamy to Greatness
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Narrated by:
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George Guidall
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By:
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Craig Nelson
Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed 20th-century America - Pearl Harbor - based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times best-selling author.
The America we live in today was born not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when almost 400 Japanese planes attacked the US Pacific Fleet, killing 2,400 men and sinking or damaging 16 ships. In Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness, Craig 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 of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, against the backdrop of the imperial, military, and civilian leaders of Japan lurching into ultranationalist fascism, all culminating in 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 reexamination 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. Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy's unforeseen and resonant consequences.
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The author brings new perspective to this much reviewed subject.
Great book on old subject
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It wasn't what I expected but I liked it.
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Listening to this book will help you to better understand were our faith and trust should be placed and it most certainly is not in government. It should be placed in knowing that, God forbid, something as bad or worse could happen and it would be the men and women in the military who will be there as they always are.
To the person whose review included he will never listen to another book read by George Guidall, please search his name and look at the over 800 books you have just crossed off your to do list. I often search for a new author by searching his name.
Remember Pearl Harbor is still true today
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I knew about Nanking I just think a heads up would've been nice that's all.
very good book.
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Excellent
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Awesome
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Great book, awful narration
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Outstanding!
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good not great
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Amazing Research To A Story We All Thought We New
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