num_pages: 358
description: December 7 is the date which will live in infamy. But now Japan is hatching another far greater plan to bring America to its knees. . . .The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a resounding successexcept for one a second bombing mission to destroy crucial oil storage facilities was aborted that day. Now in this gripping and stunning work of alternate history Robert Conroy reimagines December 7 1941 to include the attack the Japanese didnt launch and what follows is a thrilling tale of war resistance sacrifice and courage. For when Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sees how badly the United States has been ravaged in a two-pronged strike he devises another more daring an all-out invasion of Hawaii to put a stranglehold on the American Pacific Fleet.Yamamotos strategy works brilliantlyat first. But a handful of American soldiers and a determined civilian resistance fight back in the face of cruelty unknown in Western warfare. Stateside a counterassault is plannedand the pioneering MIT-trained aviator Colonel Jimmy Doolittle is given a near-impossible mission with a fleet of seaplanes jury-rigged into bombers. From spies to ordinary heroes and those caught between two cultures at war this is the epic saga of the Battle of Hawaiithe way it very nearly was. . . .
language: English
title: 1942
publisher: Ballantine Books