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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maps, over 200 archival photographs, artwork specially rendered from eyewitness accounts, and scores of previously unpublished historical artifacts, Pearl Harbor transports the reader back to one of the darkest days in U.S. history.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.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
Susan Wels is the author of books including Titanic: Legacy of the World’s Greatest Ocean Liner, The Olympic Spirit: 100 Years of the Games,and Stanford: Portrait of a University. She is also an award-winning editor and journalist who has worked on assignment around the world. A graduate of Stanford University, she and her husband have two daughters and live in San Francisco. Daniel K. Inouye, the most senior member of the U.S. Senate and the president pro tempore, is known for his distinguished record as a legislative leader and as a World War II combat veteran with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team who earned the nation’s highest award for military valor: the Medal of Honor. A native of Honolulu, he was first elected as Hawaii’s U.S. senator in 1962.www.inouye.senate.gov Sir John Keegan was—and remains—one of the world’s most notable historians and authors. Upon his death in August 2012, he left behind numerous renowned works in the field of military history.
About the Author
Wels - San Francisco, CA, Inouye - Honolulu, HI