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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.
8) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
April 12, 1945: America is stunned by the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents. Wallace tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months leading up to August 6, 1945, when Truman gives the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. He takes readers inside the minds of the iconic and elusive figures...
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.
15) 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.
19) 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
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