Pearl Harbor 1941 - The day of infamy

Informationen zum Autor Carl Smith, illustrated by Jim Laurier Klappentext December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in Pearl Harbor. Depending on opposing viewpoints, the attack was either a brilliant maneuver of audacious strategy, or a piece of unparalleled villainy and deception by a supposedly friendly power. This revised edition, containing the latest research on the events of December 7, 1941, reveals several previously unknown aspects of the attack and dispels key myths that have been built up around the fateful day - a day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would "live in infamy". Zusammenfassung December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in Pearl Harbor. Depending on opposing viewpoints, the attack was either a brilliant maneuver of audacious strategy, or a piece of unparalleled villainy and deception by a supposedly friendly power. This revised edition, containing the latest research on the events of December 7, 1941, reveals several previously unknown aspects of the attack and dispels key myths that have been built up around the fateful day - a day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would "live in infamy". Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Opposing Commanders Chronology The Japanese Plan The First Wave The Second Wave Aftermath Further Reading Visiting Pearl Harbor Appendices Index

Product details

• Authors: D Aiken, David Aiken, C Smith, Carl Smith, Smith Carl
• Assisted by: Adam Hook (Illustration), Jim Laurier (Illustration), Laurier Jim (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2001
• EAN: 9781841763903
• ISBN: 978-1-84176-390-3
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 248 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Campaign series; Campaign; Campaign; Campaign series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Japan, European History, HISTORY / Military / Naval, HISTORY / Military / Aviation, Warfare & defence, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Naval forces and warfare, Australasian and Pacific history, War and defence operations, Hawaiian Islands