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Pearl Harbor
by: Newt Gingrich

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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Format: Kindle Book
Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: May 15, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Sales Rank: 3336
Studio: St. Martin's Press

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'A Thrilling Tale of the Attack That Marked America's Darkest Day' ---W.E.B. Griffin

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on December 8, 1941, lasted a mere six and half minutes. But his words and tone--in a monologue that would later be named the Infamy Speech--sent ripples into a nation and a world that continue even today. The historical implications that emerged from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were unprecedented, launching America not only into the depths of a dangerous war, but forever altering the safety and comfort of everyday living. December 8th became a day of speaking out publicly and declaring war; of action, battle, plotting, and victories. This date's significance is resonant and profound as an indelible moment in American history. Fresh from their series on the American Civil War, bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen now launch a new epic adventure by applying their imaginations and knowledge to the 'Date of Infamy' the attack on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor covers the full spectrum of characters and events from that historic moment, from national leaders and admirals to the views of ordinary citizens caught in the chaos of war. From the chambers of the Emperor of Japan to the American White House, from the decks of aircraft carriers to the playing fields of the Japanese Naval Academy, this powerful story stretches from the nightmare slaughter of China in the 1930s to the lonely office of Commander James Watson, an American cryptographer, who suspects the impending catastrophic attack. It is a story of intrigue, double-dealing, the horrific brutality of war, and the desperate efforts of men of reason on both sides to prevent a titanic struggle that becomes inevitable. Gingrich and Forstchen's now critically acclaimed approach, which they term 'active history,' examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- A plodding attempt at a novel
The historical research is obviously thorough, but that is all that lifts this book above a one-star rating for me. The characters (who miraculously appear at every interesting point in history...) are wooden and function primarily as talking heads to teach us history and poli sci. The writing is at best yeomanlike and at worst heavy and repetitive. The editor was apparently as asleep as the radar operators on Oahu because he/she missed needless repetitions, transpositions of character names, and typos.

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- Wrong Title
The Book should be titled -- Pearl Harbor; What if the Japs Launched Three Waves of Attack Aircraft? Some, probably many, readers and reviewers (published elsewhere and touting the book) are not familiar with the details of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and do not understand that the third and most damaging Jap aircraft attack described in the book is an intentional creation of the authors' imagination. The authors are also far to kind to Admiral Yamamoto's reputation. (I am expecting the authors to name a USN aircraft carrier after him in their next book in the series.) It is difficult to sort the fact from the fiction in this novel. The technical notes or prologue would be a good place to explain. Otherwise, well written, and should be helpful to high school and college students falling asleep during US History class as the instructor drones on and on. (I used the derogatory term Jap. The term was commonly ... Read More

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- Gingrich is improving as an author
I was hesitant to give a Newt "written" book another try after his first WWII book "1945". However, I was pleasantly surprised with this novel. It was a fast paced easy read. The size of the book and the easy text make it a good book to pick up and complete on the same airline flight.

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- Pearl Harbor
Facts need Checking

Mr. Gingrich's and Forstchen's book on Pearl Harbor is a good read, but there are quite a few factual errors that should not be there. Having Admiral Yamamoto lead the attack would have been like Admiral Nimitz being on one of the carriers at Midway. But since Yamamoto was close by during the Japanese operation at Midway, that premise at least had a posiblity. There were some 300 U.S. Army planes stationed in Hawaii, and at maximum 200 were destroyed or damaged in the first two Japanese attacks, to have only a few planes available to repel the Japanese third attack is unrealistic. This was only one of too many lack of attention to actual details that left me disappointed in the posibility of what an actual Japanese Third attack could have done in damage to U.S. forces there in Hawaii.

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