Description: This profusely illustrated gift book commemorates in pictures and text the events of December 7, 1941--the "date which will live in infamy." Historian Dan van der Vat provides background and historical context, including Japanese plannin...
Synopsis This profusely illustrated gift book commemorates in pictures and text the events of December 7, 1941--the "date which will live in infamy." Historian Dan van der Vat provides background and historical context, including Japanese planning and strategy. Photographs from the period show what the main base of the U.S. Pacific fleet looked like prior to the attack. Photographs and eyewitness accounts--from both Americans and Japanese--provide a dramatic record of the attacks, and van der Vat chronicles how the attacks came in waves, causing terrible losses of ships and lives. Representations of Pearl Harbor in popular culture and its strong hold on American memory are covered. A complete roster of the names of those lost closes this rich sourcebook.