Pearl Harbor

Discover the event that changed twentieth-century America - Pearl Harbor. This book follows the journey of the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president, and tells the story of the stunningly dramatic moment in world history. With vivid intimacy, bestselling author Craig Nelson traces Japan’s leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism and their scheme to terrorize America. Backed by a research team’s five years of work, this definitive work weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies. 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.