![]() ![]() I raced through this book in three or four sittings. Time is spent, also, on the frustrating, tragic string of miscommunication and incredulity about early warning signs of trouble. This book is akin to Cornelius Ryan's book about D-Day, The Longest Day, which I read earlier this year, in that Lord ran down as many of the survivors/participants/witnesses to the Pearl Harbor attack as he could and created a "you are there" pastiche, from the planning of the attack by the Japanese, to the innocent, unaware early morning spent by so many around the harbor and the town, to the experience and horror of the attack and battle itself, to the aftermath. ![]() The author, Walter Lord, also wrote the classic history of the sinking of the Titanic, A Night to Remember. Day of Infamy, published in 1957, provides a minute-by-minute account of the Japanese attach on Pearl Harbor.
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