Day Of Infamy
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the world changed forever — and Walter Lord's Day of Infamy reconstructs every shattering minute of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with the visceral immediacy of a firsthand witness. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors — sailors scrambling from their bunks, pilots racing to their planes, civilians watching the sky fill with enemy aircraft — Lord chronicles the chaos, heroism, and tragedy of the single event that propelled the United States into the Second World War. The narrative unfolds in real time, weaving together dozens of individual perspectives into a panoramic portrait of a nation caught catastrophically off guard. First published in 1957, Day of Infamy is widely regarded as the definitive popular account of the Pearl Harbor attack, a landmark of American military history writing that set the standard for narrative non-fiction in the post-war era. Lord's prose is precise yet propulsive, transforming archival research and oral testimony into a story that reads with the tension of a thriller. A foundational text for anyone seeking to understand how a single morning reshaped the course of the twentieth century, it leaves the reader asking one haunting question: how was it ever allowed to happen?
Author: Walter Lord
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Longmans, Green and Co
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the world changed forever — and Walter Lord's Day of Infamy reconstructs every shattering minute of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with the visceral immediacy of a firsthand witness. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors — sailors scrambling from their bunks, pilots racing to their planes, civilians watching the sky fill with enemy aircraft — Lord chronicles the chaos, heroism, and tragedy of the single event that propelled the United States into the Second World War. The narrative unfolds in real time, weaving together dozens of individual perspectives into a panoramic portrait of a nation caught catastrophically off guard. First published in 1957, Day of Infamy is widely regarded as the definitive popular account of the Pearl Harbor attack, a landmark of American military history writing that set the standard for narrative non-fiction in the post-war era. Lord's prose is precise yet propulsive, transforming archival research and oral testimony into a story that reads with the tension of a thriller. A foundational text for anyone seeking to understand how a single morning reshaped the course of the twentieth century, it leaves the reader asking one haunting question: how was it ever allowed to happen?