History of the attack on Pearl Harbour in the superb reference book Pearl Harbor 1941, the Day of Infamy by Carl Smith, detailing the attack on the home of the Us Pacific Fleet. Published by Osprey books available from Cranston Fine Arts.

Day of Infamy by Walter Lord

'Yesterday, December 7th 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan'. With these words, President Roosevelt announced America's involvement in World War II.

Walter Lord interviewed nearly six hundred participants in the tragic and treacherous attack on the USA's prime Pacific naval base in the Hawaiian Islands. From about half an hour before the attack to the realisation later in the day that the pride of the American navy lay sunk or burning in the oil-blackened, wreckage-strewn  waters of the harbour, the reader is given the authentic picture. It is an immensely human story - the number shock of survivors, the enthusiasm of the Japanese pilots and the bravery of American sailors as well as the bewilderment and sometimes panic of the participants - is vividly described.

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Book serial number W23. Price £5.99. Fully illustrated paperback with 243 pages.

Pearl Harbor 1941, The Day of Infamy by Carl Smith

Sunday 7 December 1941 saw the dawn of modern warfare. Air superiority and surprise led to the shattering of the superior US Pacific Fleet by a well planned and excellently co-ordinated attack of Japanese naval aircraft and submarine forces. The full might of Japanese naval aviation power was hurled against the United States as six aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves. Depending on opposing viewpoints, the attack on Pearl Harbor was either a brilliant manoeuvre by an audacious strategist or a piece of unparalleled villainy and deception by a supposedly friendly power. The attack on the home of the US Pacific Fleet precipitated the intervention of the United States into World War II, and became a key event in world history. It was a day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would 'live in infamy'. 

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Book price £12.99. Book serial number Osprey 62.

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