Publisher Description
Day of Infamy is Walter Lord’s gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
In brilliant detail, Walter Lord traces the human drama of the great attack: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on the stricken warships; the men at the airfields and the bases; the Japanese pilot who captured an island single-handedly when he could not get back to his carrier; the generals, the sailors, the housewives, and the children who responded to the attack with anger, numbness, and magnificent courage.
In compiling his masterpiece, Lord traveled over fourteen thousand miles and spoke or corresponded with over five hundred individuals on both sides who were there, creating the best account we have of one of the epic events in American history.
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“Walter Lord is really great for bringing you into the moment of amazing events. Just like “Night to Remember,” you feel as though he was there taking notes from some other dimension. This story of the bombing at Pearl Harbor is so detailed (but not overly done) that you get to tap into so many of the different mens’ lives to see what their average day was like. The story didn’t focus on just a select few, which is great for me because I want to know what a mess attendant did that day as much as I want to know what a captain did! Written only 15 years or so after, it was almost a hot-off-the-presses account of Pearl Harbor. And thankfully, just as in “Night,” Lord gave us bits of some of the more humorous things that surrounded the devastation.”
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Selena (4 out of 5 stars)
