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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the Japanese surprise attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, which resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 American officers and servicemen and an immediate declaration of war on Japan.
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
[1985]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Details Commodore Matthew Perry's role in opening Japan's closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history's most significant diplomatic achievements.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Pearl Harbor
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses primary source materials to study what led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the repercussions of this event.
Author
Series
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the relationship between the United States and Japan that led to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941, and to the United States' entry into World War II.
18) Pearl Harbor
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
194 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A perspective-changing reanalysis of the events of the Pearl Harbor attacks investigates theories that the U.S. Navy Base was a known possible target and that early warning signs were accidentally or deliberately ignored.
Author
Series
Department of State publication volume 10203
Publisher
United States Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
36 microfiches : negative ; 11 x 15 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A journalist describes the modern history of relations between China, Japan and the United States, discussing the confrontational path the two Asian nations appear to be on and what that means for America.
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