Pearl Harbor
By: Steven M. Gillon
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780465021390; 9780465028078
Subjects: Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; World War, 1939-1945
Description: Explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal hours that followed the attack.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars; title: Do not let the talks deteriorate; title: This means war; title: This is no drill!; title: Have you heard the news?; title: I don't know how secure this phone is; title: Infamy; title: Get to the White House fastasyoucan; title: Do you think we ought to have soldiers around the White House?; title: We are all in the same boat now; title: Deadly calm; title: I will go down in disgrace; title: 1861; title: Where were our forces; title: asleep; title: I hope Mr. Capone doesn't mind; title: Epilogue.