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A revealing and controversial account of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor. Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Toland presents evidence that FDR and his top advisors knew about the planned Japanese attack but remained silent. Infamy reveals the conspiracy to cover up the facts and find scapegoats for the greatest disaster in United States military history.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
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"A historical account--including eyewitness quotes--of the devastating 1941 attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and its wartime aftershocks, ending with how the disaster is memorialized today"--
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2023.
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"In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens-Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front. While Sam fights...
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Describes the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as Japanese forces surprised Americans at the U.S. military base, and explains the significance of the attack today. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a Japanese pilot, a U.S. sailor, and an American nurse.
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An account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the 'scapegoat' Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, the failure of the top brass in Washington to provide Kimmel with vital intelligence prior to the attack, and the continuing efforts of the family to have Kimmel formally exonerated.
11) Pearl Harbor
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Pub. Date
2001
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41 p. : col. ill.
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Describes events leading up to the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the attack itself on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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104 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
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While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
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I survived volume 4
Pub. Date
c2011
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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86 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Sand flew up into Danny's eyes. And then from behind him, a huge explosion seemed to shatter the world. The force lifted Danny off his feet and threw him onto the ground. And then Danny couldn't hear anything at all.
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"November, 1941. She's never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, Eva is stunned by the splendor she experiences aboard the steamship SS Lurline; even more so by Lt. Clark Spencer, a man she is drawn to but who clearly has secrets of his own. But Eva's past - and the future she's trying to...
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c2012
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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This special offers an in-depth look at the critical 24-hour period after news of Japan's attack on U.S. soil in 1941 reached the President. Drawing on exhaustive research and new information provided by the FDR Library, the special gives a rare and surprising glimpse at the man behind the Presidency and how he confronted the enormous challenge of transitioning the nation from peace to war.
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. They get to spend their days making comics with a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water of Pearl Harbor, where their dads are stationed as Navy pilots. December 7th, 1941: Everything explodes. Frank and Stanley are aboard the battleship the USS Utah when Japanese planes begin dropping bombs on the ships below. Chaos ensues as everyone scrambles to dive for safety....
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