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The America we live in was not born on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men and forcing America's entry into World War II. Author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, beginning in 1914 with the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, following Japan's leaders as they lurched into ultranationalist fascism, and providing a blow-by-blow account from both the Japanese and American perspectives. Backed by 5 years of research, 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. --… (plus d'informations)
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There’ve been many a book written about Pearl Harbor over the last 75 years since the attack. This one is pretty evenly set in both Japanese and American points of view. My take of the first 1/3 of this book, which is the leading up to the attack, is that the Japanese did give some major hints that the attack was imminent. Their American counterparts were either not picking up on the hints given them or they really did want the attack to happen to draw the US into the war. There was almost a complete dereliction of duty on the American military’s side of things that ordinarily should have been major red flags and subsequently acted upon instead of being missed and leading the whole base being caught with their pants down. One of the things that always bothered me was the Japanese not sending a third wave to really put the screws to the American military and take out some prime targets that were overlooked and should’ve been hit, like the oil and fuel reserves for one thing. If they took that out, the nearest reserve was on the mainland. That would have set them back probably a couple years. Definitely a good book and recommended ( )
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On April 4, 1968, Robert Kennedy was giving a speech in Indiana when he was told that Martin Luther King Jr. had been asssassinated. After sharing the news with his shocked and tearful audience, he quoted Aeschylus: Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
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The America we live in was not born on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men and forcing America's entry into World War II. Author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, beginning in 1914 with the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, following Japan's leaders as they lurched into ultranationalist fascism, and providing a blow-by-blow account from both the Japanese and American perspectives. Backed by 5 years of research, 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. --
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One of the things that always bothered me was the Japanese not sending a third wave to really put the screws to the American military and take out some prime targets that were overlooked and should’ve been hit, like the oil and fuel reserves for one thing. If they took that out, the nearest reserve was on the mainland. That would have set them back probably a couple years.
Definitely a good book and recommended (