November 2012 | Pearl Harbor Date

Miracle at Midway Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Just how fortunate the United States was in winning the closely contested navy engagement at Midway in the central Pacific in mid 1942 is evident to any reader ofthis very well documented and quite balanced account of one of the largest and most famous exchanges between the US navy and their Japanese...

Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Intelligence professionals will be very disappointed by this book, citizens interested in Presidential approaches to intelligence, somewhat less so. The author's brilliant biography of William Casey, OSS Veteran and Director of Central Intelligence under President Ronald Reagan, was a much more satisfying...

The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Hopkins has assembled a commendable work that links the most important battles of the Pacific with the US strategy, the politics, and the personalities that shaped the Pacific theater. He provides the backgrounds for each major step and takes you through the events at a level sufficient to put it into...

The Seventh Carrier Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is the first in a very interesting twist on both history and a speculative view on what could have happened. A second strike on Pearl Harbor forty years after the first one by a group of determined Japanese holdouts from the Second World War. Altogether an interesting look at the mindset of...

Pearls Before Swine Volume 1: Predicting the Past Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The author presents an excellent, word-by-word interpretation of Nostradamus' quatrains translated from the original Old French. I am one who knew little about Nostradamus before reading this book; I appreciated the author's presentation of him as an educated, devote man who was a true prophet. Pearls...

A Cruising Guide to New Jersey Waters: Revised Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Captain Donald Launer is one of the more knowlegeable sailors along the New Jersey shore. He lives there and is devoted to marine arts and sciences as they effect boaters.His book is scrupulously accurate, unusually readable, and more than interesting for sailor, motorboater or just an interested reader....

One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Most of us live 76 hours with little thoughts of danger, but as readers of this book will quickly find out, the 3 days the U.S. Marine 2nd Division spent on Tarawa atol, and especially Betio, was just about the most dangerous place a person could ever be.Several people have said, including the two commanding...

The Control of Nature Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A fairly detailed investigation and explanation of three locations where Man is attempting to prevent the course of Nature. The first, the attempt, so far successful, to prevent the Mississippi from changing its exit to the Gulf (it wants to go through the Atchafalaya River, substantially shorter and...

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture on American Civilization) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The surprise attack of September 11 brought about, in the eyes of many learned observers, a radical shift in American national security policy. Since World War II and up until the collapse of the Soviet Union there was a policy of containment and deterrence. During the 1990s, in the wake of the collapse,...

Battlefield Angels: Saving Lives Under Enemy Fire From Valley Forge to Afghanistan (General Military) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A fascinating blend of courageous corpsmen & medic profiles from the Revolutionary War to the Middle East. I had no idea how much of civilian healthcare has been pioneered or validated by military medicine: anesthesia, blood banks, plasma transfusions, air medevacs, etc.But the strength of this book...

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Decades after the fact, this collection of essays is a bit of a period piece, but some of it holds up quite well. The subject of the famous title story -- which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1967 -- is about the Haight Street scene and, more to the point, the breakdown of human connection...

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Few eras of American history are more misunderstood than the naval history of early America after the Revolutionary War. Former financial analyst and political aide Ian Toll sheds new light on this era in his richly detailed and comprehensive first book, Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding...

The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear, Part Two (Oxford History of the United States) (Pt. 2) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'm old enough to have live through the eventful 16-years (1929-1945)covered by Prof. David Kennedy's 2-volume history of that period of modern American history; for about half of that time, I was intellectually aware of what was happening; and I have read widely about the New Deal and WW-II. However,...

The Last Aloha Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I live in two worlds, one I know and one that leaves me baffled. I was raised by my native Hawaiian grandmother who was born in 1887. She was 6 years old at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. I was 5 when we became the 50th State of America and on that day I learned the most important...

1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, updated ed. Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Let me get my chief complaints out of the way first: this author loves to eat. It sometimes seems that every other entry is a restaurant or local culinary hot-spot, from "Cheese Country" to "Big Pig Jig." These are not destinations, they're cuisines. Subtract those, and you probably have a book better...

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When it comes to writing military history, Rick Atkinson's narratives, in my view, are as good as it gets. I have an entire bookcase devoted to books about World War II and I would argue that very few, if any of them, meet the standard set now by Atkinson as far as depth of research, a flair for the...

V for Victory Collectibles Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is remarkably full of errors. Multiple prices for the same item are listed in different locations. Items are completely mislabelled with regard to what they are made of or what they are. When comparing prices in this guide with his other homefront guide the prices for many items are completely...