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(More customer reviews)This book, is, in my opinion the best book written about Pearl Harbor to date. There are several reasons behind these feelings. I have read a number of books on the subject and most are written in the tone of a PhD thesis. This book was very readable and read more like a novel than a historical work. The author wove the information together in the form of a story rather than as a dry recitation of fact. Additionally, I enjoyed the approach taken by the author. The book starts with an early history of the Islands, and then moves onto the days right before the attack using real people and their families to bring a sense of what life was like in Hawaii before the attack and why the attack so devistated so many people. Following are details of the attack, the way in which it changed people and then into the life of modern Hawaii and the lingering affects of the bombing. This was throughly enjoying and made me understand the events of December 7th in a whole new light!!
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A landmark book published to rave reviews a decade ago, Pearl Harbor Ghosts has now been updated to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the surprise attack that forever changed the course of history. Full of gripping drama and vibrant details, here is the intimate human story of the events surrounding that fateful day of December 7, 1941–the glamorous tropical city that seemed too beautiful to suffer devastation . . . the stunned naval personnel whose lives would permanently be divided into before and after Pearl Harbor . . . the ordinary Honolulu residents who were tragically unprepared to be the first target in the Pacific war . . . the Japanese pilots who manned the squadron of deadly silver bombers . . . and the island's community of Japanese-Americans whose lives would never be the same again. Blending meticulous historic recreation with lively reporting, Clarke counterpoints the freeze-frame nightmare of the 1941 bombing with the disturbing realities of present-day Honolulu, where hundreds of veterans, both American and Japanese, converge each year to relive every hour of the attack. Wealthy Waikiki landowners and native Hawaiian farmers, admirals and nurses, Navy wives and government officials–all take their part in Clarke's rich tapestry of memory and insight. In the end, Pearl Harbor emerges as a trauma that spread from Oahu to engulf the nation and the world–an event that continues to reverberate in the lives of all who experienced it.
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