[PDF] Pearl Harbor And Hawaii eBook

Author : Glen Williford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1472800621

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the military importance of the Hawaiian Islands became clear. Oahu in particular was a key bastion in projecting America's military power in the Pacific. The island was turned into a military fortress and yet it also became the site of one of America's greatest defensive failures, the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941. By the end of World War II, the harbor itself was the most heavily defended in the world, and the island had earned the sobriquet "Fortress Oahu". This title documents the development of the coastal, air and land defense systems that served to protect Pearl Harbor and Honolulu from 1907 to 1950, and seeks to understand why these failed at a critical point.

Author : John J. Stephan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2001-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824825508

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“This lively, provocative study challenges the widely held belief that the Japanese did not intend to invade the Hawaiian Islands.” —Choice “A disquieting book, which shatters several historical illusions that have almost come to be accepted as facts. It will remind historians how complex and ambiguous history really is.” —American Historical Review

Author : John C. Davenport
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
ISBN : 1438104332

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Traces events leading up to and resulting from the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on American battleships at Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into World War II.

Author : DeSoto Brown
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :

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"Here is the enthralling story of Hawaii during World War II as shown through a fascinating text and hundreds of rare and historic photographs. World War II s disruptions were felt throughout the United States, but nowhere more strongly than in Hawaii. Beginning with the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, the years of change and the restrictions that in 1945 caused the islands to undergo an experience unlike anywhere else in the country." From Amazon.

Author : Steve Twomey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1476776482

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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chronicles the 12 days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy, "--NoveList.

Author : Robert Stinnett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2001-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743201292

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Using previously unreleased documents, the author reveals new evidence that FDR knew the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing to prevent it.

Author : Barry Denenberg
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439555135

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In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Author : Lawrence Reginald Rodriggs
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :

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"An oral and pictorial history featuring the personal stories of 50 Honolulu civilians, including civilian deaths by 'friendly fire.' Stories of WWII life in Honolulu under Martial Law, including the military takeover of civil government, courts, schools, homes, and the control of civilian currency, curfew, blackout, air-raid drills, gas masks, censorship, evacuations." -- Goodreads.com.

Author : Angie Peterson Kaelberer
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2017-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756555906

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans were killed and the battleships of the Pacific Fleet lay in ruins. The brutal attack launched the United States into war, a conflict that engulfed the world.

Author : Michael Slackman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824813789

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Target: Pearl Harbor takes a fresh look at the air raid that plunged America into World War II by scrutinizing the decisions and attitudes that prompted the attack and left the United States unprepared to mount a successful defense. The core of the book concerns the events of December 7, 1941, as seen through the eyes of participants, both American and Japanese, military and civilian. The author's use of contemporary documents and interviews with survivors has enabled him to present a vivid and evocative picture of that day.