Pearl Harbor

Award-winning historian Susan Wels brings together in one magnificent edition the history, real-life stories, harrowing drama, and tragedy of Japan's attack on the United States' most important Pacific naval base. With a foreword by Hawaii Senator Daniel K. Inouye and an introduction by preeminent military historian Sir John Keegan, Pearl Harbor imparts the extensive historical background of the early days of World War II, the dramatic aftermath of Japan's Operation AI, and the enduring legacy of this wartime disaster. Author Susan Wels recounts the story in the robust, riveting narrative style that has put her on the bestseller lists of the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and USA Today. Accompanied by newly designed maps, over 200 archival photographs, artwork specially rendered from eyewitness accounts, and scores of previously unpublished historical artifacts, Pearl Harbor transports the reader back to one of the darkest days in U.S. history.
From the growing conflict in Europe to the traumatic events on the morning of December 7, 1941, this book tells the story-heartbreaking and yet inspiring-of a day that left a permanent impression on American memory.