Books Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th
Books and Publications Average Rating:

Rating: - 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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Rating: - Not quite up to the Civil War series
Gingrich and Forstchen are on a roll. Following up on their dazzling Civil War trilogy comes a trilogy surrounding the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. This trilogy asks "what if" Yamamoto had personally led the attack on Pearl. It is well crafted and well written and a darn good read. All that said, it lacks the bold swagger of the Civil War trilogy which read like a labor of love.

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Rating: - Great fiction based on reality
This is a unique look into a serious time in our history. While i am part of a newer generation and was not alive during this time, i found it this book to be very enlightening and entertaining.

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Rating: - Infamous Proofreading
This work is fairly well written, but the editing and proofreading are execrable. It is history that Yamamoto considered leading the Pearl Harbor raid personally, the premise used by the authors in this book and in "Days of Infamy", and it serves them well.

At Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nagumo terminated a bold campaign with a too conservative tactical error. At Midway he dithered away a tactical advantage and allowed his opponents to strike the first blow of the carrier vs. carrier battle, a blow that proved fatal for Japan.