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Author: Robert Sherman La Forte Publisher: ISBN: 9780345373809 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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This special edition commemorating the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which occurred December 7, 1941, presents a compilation of eyewitness accounts by those who survived, including soldiers, sailors, airmen, chaplains, and wives.
Author: Robert Sherman La Forte Publisher: ISBN: 9780345373809 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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This special edition commemorating the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which occurred December 7, 1941, presents a compilation of eyewitness accounts by those who survived, including soldiers, sailors, airmen, chaplains, and wives.
Author: Alexander Nemerov Publisher: David Zwirner Books ISBN: 1941701655 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 81
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Summoning Pearl Harbor is a mesmerizing display of linguistic force that redefines remembering. How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What is this kind of remembering, and for whom do we recall the dead, or the past? In this highly original meditation on the past, renowned art historian Alexander Nemerov delves into what it means to recall a significant event—Pearl Harbor—and how descriptions of images can summon it back to life. Beginning with the photo album of a former Japanese kamikaze pilot, which is reproduced in this volume, Nemerov transports the reader into a different world through his engagement with the photographs and the construction of a narrative around them. Through its lyrical prose, Summoning Pearl Harbor expands what we traditionally associate with ekphrastic writing. The kind of writing that can enliven a work of art is also the kind of writing that makes the past appear in vivid color and deep feeling. In the end, this timely piece of writing opens onto fundamental questions about how we communicate with each other, and how the past continues to live in our collective consciousness, not merely as facts but as stories that shape us. Here, Nemerov’s constant awareness of the power of language to make an experience—seen or remembered—become real reminds us that great ekphrastic writing is at the heart of every effective description.
Author: Lawrence Reginald Rodriggs Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 456
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"An oral and pictorial history featuring the personal stories of 50 Honolulu civilians, including civilian deaths by 'friendly fire.' Stories of WWII life in Honolulu under Martial Law, including the military takeover of civil government, courts, schools, homes, and the control of civilian currency, curfew, blackout, air-raid drills, gas masks, censorship, evacuations." -- Goodreads.com.
Author: Beth Bailey Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700628134 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 222
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In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but for most Americans the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military outposts in the Pacific: Kota Bharu on the northeast coast of Malaya (now Malaysia); Thailand, the one site not claimed by a western power; Pearl Harbor, O’ahu; Singapore, key to the defense of Britain’s Asian empire; Guam, the only island in the Mariana chain not controlled by Japan; Wake Island; Hong Kong; and the Philippines. Told from multiple perspectives, the stories of these attacks reveal the arc of imperialism, colonialism, and burgeoning nationalism in the Pacific world. In Beyond Pearl Harbor renowned scholars hailing from four continents and representing six nations reinterpret the meaning of the coordinated, and devastating, attacks of December 7/8, 1941. Working from a variety of angles, they revise and expand, to an unprecedented extent, what we understand about these events—in particular, how Japan’s overwhelming, if short-lived, victories contributed to emerging solidarities and nationalist identities within and across Pacific societies. In their essays we see how various elite actors incorporated the attacks into new regimes of knowledge and expertise that challenged and displaced existing hierarchies. Extending far beyond Pearl Harbor, the events of December 1941, as we see in this volume, are part of a story of clashing empires and anti-colonial visions—a story whose outcome, even now, remains to be seen.
Author: Blake Clark Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781523235643 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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Remember Pearl Harbor!, published in 1942, was the first book to be released following the Japanese attack on Oahu on December 7, 1941. The book, by long-time Hawaii resident Blake Clark, provides an overview of what happened on that fateful day, as well as stories of sailors, flyers, soldiers, doctors, nurses, and civilians affected by the attack, plus an look at the large Japanese community present on Oahu. Although brief, this firsthand account is an important look at life on Hawaii at the time of the attack and shortly afterward. (Note that this edition is of the first printing of Remember Pearl Harbor! A slightly revised edition, with maps and updates to the text, was published in 1943.)
Author: Craig Nelson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451660510 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 560
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“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men—and forced America’s entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history. Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan’s leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same. Backed by a research team’s five years of work, as well as Nelson’s thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work “weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies” (Kirkus Reviews). Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy’s unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.
Author: Robert Sherman La Forte
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