September 2012 | Pearl Harbor Date

Dead in the Water (Kate Shugak Mystery) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My husband and I are both big fans of the Kate Chugak series. We both came away disappointed with this installment. The problem is pretty basic. In the other books in this series, the mystery is the core of the book and the setting is the frosting on the cake. The mix is seriously reversed in this book,...

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews). Don't be misled by the title, this is not just another telling of the entire Battle of Midway story. Instead it's an exhaustively detailed new account of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at Midway, accomplished with a depth of research and analysis not previously seen. The book is crammed with a dazzling...

Call to Arms (The Corps, Book 2) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you buy a W E B Griffin novel looking for shootin' and lootin' combat action, you'll probably be a little disappointed. For new readers, I strongly recommend the first two volumes of The Corps series. As an ensemble, the characters are the most compelling of Griffin's works and the stories follow...

Behind the Lines (Corps, Book 7) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Although this book is now several years old I felt it was worth the time to comment on it since WEB just had another installment of The Brotherhood of War published. The new book had it's usual effect on me and I went into a "Griffin feeding frenzy" and re-read the last two books in The Corps" series.I...

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My interest in Daniel Yergin's "The Prize" was piqued earlier in the year, when energy, not terrorism, was the most pressing domestic problem. For an economy that had gotten so caught up with the intangibles, with over-hyped, un-real products (haven't we all had enough of "e-business solutions?"), it...

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Overall, this book presents a side of the Second World War with which most Americans are unfamiliar and may find shocking. It does a valuable service in exposing many of the prejudices of the time and especially in showing how those prejudices were at least partly responsible for the string of debacles...

Counterattack (The Corps Book 3) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This,the third volume in the Corps series,must be regarded as a convenient stepping stone to later episodes. We are introduced to sergeant/lieutenant Joe Howard , "big Steve" Oblensky, Charley Galloway , Jake Dillon , and a more vivid portrait off Jack NMI Stecker. Fleming Pickering emerges as a central...

The Bravest Man: Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The title of The Bravest Man refers to Richard O'Kane, the most successful American submarine commander in the Second World War. While this book focuses on O'Kane's wartime career on the submarines USS Wahoo and USS Tang, it also examines the careers and exploits of other successful American submarine...

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Although I am a large fan of America's Secret War and respect Mr. Friedman's logical thinking and intelligence, this book is an undertaking so far beyond the capability of man -trying to outline how the next 100 years of history will look- that even though it started off captivating it ultimately left...

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an excellent multi-cultural account of American history. Takaki focuses on the perspectives of many different cultural groups, providing several interesting, unique and sometimes sobering stories of America's history. After reading this book, you may find yourself feeling cheated by your grade...

When the Emperor Was Divine Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When people--any people--cease to be seen as individuals, they become "them"--the faceless, nameless "enemy." In this exquisite short novel, a shameful episode of American history is re-examined--the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. It was a time when everyone of Japanese descent...

Empire on the Hudson Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you're into history of NY this is an intersting book, politics and money wins all.Click Here to see more reviews about: Empire on the HudsonGet 10% OFFClick here for more information about Empire on the Hud...

More of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As someone that grew up listening to Paul Harvey on the radio it was pure bliss to find his "The Rest of the Story..." vignettes compiled and published.Betch ya can't read just one!Click Here to see more reviews about: More of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the StoryPaul Harvey is the most listened-to radio...

We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When I picked up We Were Pirates I expected a firsthand account of the Pacific War with a ghost writer and what I found was that two men have edited and woven Chief Robert Hunt's diary into We Were Pirates. While well written I found myself wishing I was reading Chief Hunt's diary with commentary by...

The New Dealers' War: FDR And The War Within World War II Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)... First, Fleming not only does NOT join the conspiracy buffs (which, by the way, include the prestigious John Toland) who say that FDR planned Pearl Harbor, Fleming actually DEBUNKS those theories somewhat.Fleming interviews the captain of an obsolete warship who was sent out on what the captain describes...

Silent Honor Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a moving story about the unbelievable pain and prejudice faced by the Japanese in America during WWII. It tells about the life experiences of Hiroko, a Japanese girl, who arrives in America right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. It tells of her life detained in an internment camp and...

America's Wartime Scrapbook - Pearl Harbour to V-J Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the ninth of Robert Opie's Scrapbooks and the first using material not from his vast collection, appropriately this covers the US war years while his first book covered the British war years. An amazing 1500 items, mostly printed ephemera, from the collections of Charles Numark and Martin Jacobs...