Eyewitness to Infamy - An Oral History of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Informationen zum Autor Paul J. Travers received a B.A. from the University of Maryland and an M.A. from Pepperdine University. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an amphibious armor officer. A former historian for the Maryland Park Service, he is the author of The Patapsco River: Baltimore's River of History. Klappentext The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II. Yet in the long and fascinating body of literature about this terrible event, most historians have neglected the compelling and moving accounts of the surviving military personnel and civilians who were on Oahu at the time of the attack, at dawn on December 7, 1941. Eyewitness to Infamy is their story-the astonishing oral history of the brutal attack that pushed the United States into WWII on the side of the Allies. With the help of the Pearl Harbor Survivors' Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion, Paul Travers collected more than 200 eyewitness accounts from which he painstakingly selected those critical to this behind-the-scenes narrative account.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Joseph Travers, Travers Paul Joseph
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781493023431
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-2343-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; USA, Japan, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / Naval, HISTORY / Military / United States, Naval forces & warfare, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), World War II, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Naval forces and warfare, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, battleships, Pacific Fleet, sneak attack