Whatever the label, Pearl Harbor was a turning-point moment in American history, and it gave rise, the very next day, to some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American president: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked." If you intend to read only a single book on Pearl Harbor, this is the one for you. It must be considered one of the most lopsided battles in all history-and "battle" probably isn't the best word to describe it. The Japanese, by contrast, lost only 29 planes. 2: Judgement Day, but he drew a lot more attention in 1997 with Titanic. Hundreds of planes were destroyed or damaged. British docudrama based on the eponymous book by Walter Lord starring Kenneth. Arizona, which blew up about 15 minutes into the raid, and 17 other ships were either sunk or crippled. Thousands of Americans were killed or wounded. The whole assault lasted about two hours. naval officer on "his first night on his first patrol on his first command" spots a Japanese submarine just hours before the strike when the surprise attack finally does arrive, an excited Japanese commander shouts "Tora! Tora! Tora!" ("Victory!") before even the first bombs have fallen. The Japanese scan Hawaiian radio stations to see if their moves have been detected a U.S. Lord begins by showing how Japanese admirals, three months before their notorious sneak attack, "tested the idea on the game board at the Naval War College." (It didn't go nearly as well there as it did in real life.) Then he proceeds briskly through the preparations for the assault and delivers a minute-by-minute account about those fateful hours in Oahu. Day of Infamy deserves to stand beside that classic as a gripping narrative, and the subject matter, of course, is infinitely more important. Inscribed by author 'For Chuck(sp) C-() All thanks to you for taking such good care of me in Texas' and signed Walter Lord in black ink on title page. Walter Lord is best known for A Night to Remember, his book on the voyage of the Titanic. : Day of Infamy: 8vo - over 7' - 9' tall. Lord goes into meticulous detail to recount the day all the way from the Japanese build up of a secret mission, to the Americans living and stationed on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu.There may not be a better book on what happened at Pearl Harbor than Day of Infamy-and it's not as if the Pearl Harbor story has lacked chroniclers. He illustrates how everyone was oblivious to extreme nature of events going on around him or her, even after the bombs were dropped. This is obvious in Chapter VII's title: "I Didn't Even Know They Were Sore At Us!", p 64. Lord shows the way Americans believed that no one had the ability to reach them, let alone attack the U.S.
As author James Michner wrote in The New York Times, " It stuns the reader with the weight of reality." He does not spend a lot of time pointing fingers or placing blame, but remains on the raw human experiences of the day. How untrained they are at putting the clues together, and just how unprepared they can be, until after the fact- when they become fiercely patriotic and regroup. Walter Lord reminds the reader of just how innocent people are in the moments before history is changed forever.
Lord is also known for his bestselling book A Night to Remember, which was written in the same style as this book, with minute-to-minute accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. Roosevelts' speech before Congress the following day. He ends with the famous national radio address of President Franklin D. He begins with the innocence (and evils) of the night before the tragedy. In this book, Lord painstakingly reconstructed not just the "why" and the "way" of the attack, but also how it happened, how people could have been so unaware of what might happen, and the slowness to regroup when it did. Walter Lords' Day of Infamy traces the drama of the massive aerial attack of Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. (New York: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 2nd Edition, 1985), 227 pp.
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