Target: Pearl Harbor
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: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the world changed forever as Japanese aircraft swept across the skies of Oahu, transforming a tranquil Sunday into one of the most catastrophic and consequential days in American military history. Target: Pearl Harbor chronicles the events surrounding the infamous attack with meticulous detail, reconstructing the fateful hours from the perspectives of both the attackers and the defenders, and examining the cascade of intelligence failures, strategic miscalculations, and human stories that converged in a single, devastating moment. Michael Slackman brings the authority of rigorous historical scholarship to bear on a subject that continues to resonate in the American consciousness, presenting a narrative that is as analytically sharp as it is humanly compelling. Published in association with the Arizona Memorial Museum, the work is grounded in primary sources and firsthand accounts, lending it an authenticity that purely academic treatments often lack. Slackman's prose is clear, authoritative, and deeply respectful of the lives lost and changed on that Pacific morning — leaving the reader to ponder not just what happened, but whether it could ever have been prevented.
Author: Michael Slackman
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the world changed forever as Japanese aircraft swept across the skies of Oahu, transforming a tranquil Sunday into one of the most catastrophic and consequential days in American military history. Target: Pearl Harbor chronicles the events surrounding the infamous attack with meticulous detail, reconstructing the fateful hours from the perspectives of both the attackers and the defenders, and examining the cascade of intelligence failures, strategic miscalculations, and human stories that converged in a single, devastating moment. Michael Slackman brings the authority of rigorous historical scholarship to bear on a subject that continues to resonate in the American consciousness, presenting a narrative that is as analytically sharp as it is humanly compelling. Published in association with the Arizona Memorial Museum, the work is grounded in primary sources and firsthand accounts, lending it an authenticity that purely academic treatments often lack. Slackman's prose is clear, authoritative, and deeply respectful of the lives lost and changed on that Pacific morning — leaving the reader to ponder not just what happened, but whether it could ever have been prevented.