Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Best, Nicholas, 1948- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2016.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  940.5426 BEST    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  940.5426 BE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description ix, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-305) and index.
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.
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.
Subject 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.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Pearl Harbor, Attack on (Hawaii : 1941) (OCoLC)fst01056083
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
Hawaii. (OCoLC)fst01208724
Pacific Ocean. (OCoLC)fst01243528
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Added Title 7 days of infamy
Pearl Harbor across the world
ISBN 9781250078018 (hardcover)
1250078016 (hardcover)
-->
Add a Review