April 2012 | Pearl Harbor Date

Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Atoll Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Whenever I see a revolving globe, I always wait for that brief moment when it appears as though planet Earth is nothing but sea - a momentary illusion created by the vast size of the Pacific Ocean. Not even the mighty Atlantic comes close to creating the same effect. Such a great Ocean will, of course,...

From Pearl Harbor to Saigon: Japanese American Soldiers and the Vietnam War (Haymarket) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)He knows what he is talking about, and It seems that american history did not want us to know about these parts of the war, all an all it is a great peace of history missing, and found and told by a great writer in this book...Click Here to see more reviews about: From Pearl Harbor to Saigon: Japanese...

Paul, Betty, And Pearl Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Paul, Betty, and Pearl" is a love story played out against the backdrop of World War II. The story begins with Lieutenant Paul Van Vliet's arrival in Hawaii a few months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Paul is with the U.S. Army Signal Corps. A single man, he is reunited...

Yamamoto: The Man Who Planned the Attack on Pearl Harbor Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Hoyt does a alright job detailing the life of Admiral Yamamoto.I felt the book dragged at points, but the author does a satisfactory job detailing the life of the person who planned the Pearl Harbor attack. Hoyt kept strictly to the professional life of the Admiral, and only made passing references to...

Murder at Pearl Harbor (Mysteries in Time Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I began this book with great anticipation, but ended with much disappointment. I thought the book had a good premise; however, it just didn't work for me. In this story everything that happens before Gwen goes to Pearl Harbor could be left out, or summerized in a sentence or two because none of it is...

Pearl Harbor Betrayed: The True Story of a Man and a Nation Under Attack Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It's hard to tell from the title, but this is neither a conspiracy book nor (entirely) a whitewash of Adm. Kimmel but a fairly good overview. The book covers the comprehensive blind spots, especially those in Washington, that lead to the surprise at Pearl Harbor. Gannon writes entertainingly and covers...

Scapegoats: A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As an analyst and historian of the Pearl Harbor attack, Ned Beach brings to the table qualifications few others can match: a career as a highly-decorated Navy commander and combat veteran. That makes this look at America's on-scene military leaders on the Day of Infamy particularly insightful, and Captain...

Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Having studied World War II in the European and Asian theatres I had never studied in detail the general reasons on the collapse of Allied Forces air power in the first month of the Japanese attack on US and Commonwealth Forces, in and around S.E.Asia and the Pacific during December 1941. The book by...

Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)William Honan has done history buffs and strategists alike a signal service in presenting this exciting biography of Hector C. Bywater. Not content with a biography of this journalist, spy and prophet, Honan attempts to do more: understand Bywater's intellectual development--a transformation which led...

Steady Nerves and Stout Hearts: The Enterprise Cvg Air Group and Pearl Harbor, 7 December, 1941 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As this book contains recently declassiifed information regarding the US aircraft carrier USS Enterprise from the ship's logbooks, as well as diaries of the pilots who flew her planes, it is an excellent source document for military historians with much important new information on the role and military...

Pearl Harbor in the Movies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Exellent & informative overview of various movies set in, around, or nearby Pearl Harbor (and of course, the infamous attack on December 7, 1941.)However, the book does detail some movies that aren't necessarily tied into Pearl Harbor per se (such as the b-movie "Battle At Bloody Beach", which is...

"Pearl Harbor": The Movie and the Moment Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I just bought this book and it totally blew me away. Contrary to another review here, I find almost every page of this book to be extremely informative and jam-packed with information on the real attack and the making of the movie, with LOTS of movie photos and a lot of historical photos too. Also included...

Advance Force Pearl Harbor Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Advance Force Pearl Harbor" by Burl Burlingame. Trade paperback-481 pages from Naval Institute Press in 2002 from the original in 1992. . This book is outstanding and is the only book detailing the attack on Pearl Harbor by the submarine force of Japan in December of 1941 and specifically by the 5 mini-boats...

Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations, 1931-41 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This work--a collection of essays published in 1973--remains one of the best in its field, and is still of great value to serious students of the catastrophic maelstrom of events leading to WWII in the Pacific. The topics covered are wide-ranging and make excellent use of Japanese source materials; Asada...

Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Having just visited Pearl Harbor and the Arizona Memorial last week[December 9th,2004] I recalled reading this book several years ago. I went over it again and recommend it highly. In crisp, no nonsense prose, Admiral Wallin tells us his view of the attack, and how he directed the salvage of 5 of the...

Eyewitness Pacific Theater: Firsthand Accounts of the War in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the Atomic Bombs Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a relatively large book at 11 in by 9 in with 272 pages. Along with the photos is a running dialog giving a brief summary of the key engagements. Nestled in the dialog are many firsthand accounts of the sailors, soldiers or marines that were there. Though this album is predominately American...

Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan (Historic Photos) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I think most people know more about World War II in Europe than they do about the war in the Pacific. Yet, for America, the War began and ended in the Pacific. Maybe it is just harder to do movies about ships and island invasions than it is about ground campaigns. We always talk about Omaha Beach, and...