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| Author | : Ian W. Toll |
| File Size | : 46,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 07 May 2024 |
| ISBN | : 9780393068139 |
| Pages | : 659 pages |
Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months
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