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Cargando... Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941 (1991)por Stanley Weintraub
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. somewhat long, but good info. ( ) 3502. Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941, by Stanley Weintraub (read Nov 23 2001) This is the third Weintraub book I've read [I read his A Stillness Heard Round the World The End of the Great War: November 1918, (on 24 Nov 1985) and The London Yankees Portraits of American Writers and Artists in England 1894-1914 (on 29 Apr 1994), both of which I liked a lot]. This book, related to the attack on Pearl Harbor, is organized in a unique way, telling what went on hour by hour all around the world from Dec 6, 1941, to Dec 8, 1941. Many large parts of this book were intensely interesting and the account of the events in Hawaii are as vivid as any I've read. This was a great, great read, even though maybe Pearl Harbor is now shaded by the new day of infamy we all know, September 11, 2001.
Galvanic, hour-by-hour account that traces the events leading up to and following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Pennsylvania State Univ. arts-and-humanities professor Weintraub (Victoria, 1987, etc.), who recounted the final days of the Great War in A Stillness Heard Round the World (1985), details how the simultaneous Japanese attacks on American and British forces in the Pacific and Asia suddenly plunged millions into arguably the first truly global conflict. With brief snapshots, he illustrates how both ordinary and powerful people experience the mounting horror in far-flung locales--Washington, Manila, Moscow, Tokyo, Tobruk, Singapore, London, Berlin, and, of course, Hawaii.... click on Kirkus Reviews to read more...
Long Day's Journey Into War recaptures the whirlwind events sweeping the globe on the calendar day that may be the most momentous of the twentieth century. In this riveting re-creation, the vast, worldwide scope of the major turning point of World War II comes to unforgettable life.In Washington, D.C., the U.S. and Japanese governments move toward irreversible confrontation. In Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito strains to hear, amid the crackling radio static, the first reports of war. Landings in Malaya and Thailand at midnight are timed to coincide across the thousands of miles of ocean with carrier-plane and suicide-sub attacks at daylight on Hawaii.In Russia, in the subzero snows, the German onslaught crests against the furious counterattacks of a Red Army rising from its ruins. In North Africa, in the torrid sands about besieged Tobruk, Rommel's Afrika Korps discovers its limits. In Nazi-occupied Europe, in a bleak Polish forest, Hitler's "final solution" is given its first grisly trial run.In the kaleidoscope of Stanley Weintraub's narrative, events reveal themselves in dramatic hour-by-hour simultaneous time as scenes shift from frontlines to home fronts. Meticulously researched, startling in its revelations and in its juxtaposition of events, Long Day's Journey Into War is gripping, riveting history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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