Pearl Harbor, Craig Nelson
Pearl Harbor, Craig Nelson
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Pearl Harbor
From Infamy to Greatness

Author: Craig Nelson

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 18 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2016


Synopsis

“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.

About Craig Nelson

Craig Nelson is the author of Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness and the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, as well as several previous books, including The Age of Radiance (a PEN Award Finalist chosen as one of the year’s best books by NBC News, the American Institute of Physics, Kirkus Reviews, and FlavorWire), The First HeroesThomas Paine (winner of the Henry Adams Prize), and Let’s Get Lost (shortlisted for W.H. Smith’s Book of the Year). His writing has appeared in Vanity FairThe Wall Street JournalSalonNational GeographicThe New England ReviewPopular ScienceReader’s Digest, and a host of other publications.


Reviews

Pearl Harbor, written by Craig Nelson, is a wonderful addition to the collection if anyone interested in the events of December 7, 1941. This book is a source of information, both about the individuals involved in the attacks and the politics surrounding this event. Important historical information.......more

Fast flowing new account of the attack on Pearl Harbor Craig Nelson provides an expansive book that tells the often told story of the Pearl Harbor attack. It’s been a while since I’ve read Prange’s standard on this subject “At Dawn We Slept” so I have little to compare, however I found this a compre......more

Goodreads review by Matias

There are events in our history which changed the world forever. Pearl Harbor is no exception to this list of events. In this meticulously crafted book, Craig Nelson examines the background, attacks, and aftermath of Pearl Harbor in a strikingly captivating way. Why did the Japanese attack? Why were......more