Attacked!
Pearl Harbor and the Day War Came to America
Published on 3. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-316-59209-3 (ISBN)
Description
The true story of Pearl Harbor as you've never read it before-action-packed, informative, and told through the eyes of those on all sides of the violence who experienced the terror of the unprecedented attack firsthand.
A single day changed the course of history: December 7, 1941. Nobody in America knew Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was coming. Nobody was prepared for the aftermath.
Filled with firsthand accounts and photographs, this unflinching, action-packed narrative puts readers on the ground in Pearl Harbor through the real stories of a diverse cast of characters. From the attackers to the attacked, daring rescues to tragic losses, unlikely survival to quick-thinking responses, learn the stories of the men, women, and children who experienced that fateful day and its aftereffects.
Perfect for fans of Steven Sheinkin and Deobrah Heiligman, award-winning author Marc Favreau sheds new, compelling light onto a history we think we know, what it means to be American, and the enduring lessons from an event we never saw coming.
* "A jaw-dropping account of Pearl Harbor ... artfully conceived and grippingly told."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
A single day changed the course of history: December 7, 1941. Nobody in America knew Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was coming. Nobody was prepared for the aftermath.
Filled with firsthand accounts and photographs, this unflinching, action-packed narrative puts readers on the ground in Pearl Harbor through the real stories of a diverse cast of characters. From the attackers to the attacked, daring rescues to tragic losses, unlikely survival to quick-thinking responses, learn the stories of the men, women, and children who experienced that fateful day and its aftereffects.
Perfect for fans of Steven Sheinkin and Deobrah Heiligman, award-winning author Marc Favreau sheds new, compelling light onto a history we think we know, what it means to be American, and the enduring lessons from an event we never saw coming.
* "A jaw-dropping account of Pearl Harbor ... artfully conceived and grippingly told."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Little, Brown & Company
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 10 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 117 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-59209-3 (9780316592093)
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Person
Marc Favreau is the acclaimed author of Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America and Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia, co-author (with Michael Eric Dyson) of Unequal: A Story of America and Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote, and co-editor (with Ira Berlin and Steven F. Miller) of Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation. Favreau is also the director of editorial programs at The New Press. He lives with his family in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.