The First Strange Place
Subtitle: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780801848674
Subjects: American history: Second World War; Australasian & Pacific history; Biography: general; Oral history; Social history; United States - 20th Century/WWII; Social aspects; History: American; History - Military / War; Australasia, Oceania & Other Land Areas; USA; Military - World War II; History / United States / General; Hawaii; Race relations; Women; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: It's hard to begin with Pearl Harbor-the Japanese planes streaming across the island early that Sunday morning, a little girl dressed for church, her eyes raised suddenly to the sky, the plumes of smoke and screams of men in pain, rumbling thunder that bespoke torpedoed ships and grounded planes.