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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-100275942511

ISBN-139780275942519

eBay Product ID (ePID)120969

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameDay the War Began

SubjectMilitary / World War II, Military / General

Publication Year1992

TypeTextbook

AuthorArchie Satterfield

Subject AreaHistory

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight15.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN92-003364

Reviews"In this enjoyable and fascinating book, Archie Satterfield gives flesh and blood to the cardboard characters who often populate historical events. . . . I recommend this book for its fresh look at the private lives of those on the eve of America's traumatic entry into World War II." Military Review

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal940.5426

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Saturday, December 6, 1941 The First Shot The Americans Fight Back Adventures of the Henley Game Called Due to War View from the Cane Fields Friendly Fire A Chinese-American Family Hell on a Sunshiny Day The Military Takes Over Hawaii Niihau Fights Back The Saga of the Pacific Clipper The Forgotten Attack On the Home Front War Comes to the Football Game The Delayed Message The White House Prepares for War War Becomes a Reality Extra! Extra! Strange New Words Sudden Heroes The Mating Dance Continues The Nation Unifies Hawaii's Longest Night Defending the East Coast "I Slept Like a Baby" Bibliography Index

SynopsisDecember 7, 1941, is one of those days engraved in the twentieth century memory. It is a landmark day, along with Armistice Day in 1918, the stock market crash in 1929, and the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This book is about ordinary people on that extraordinary day. To a large extent, this book is by the people who remember that day because they have been permitted to tell their own stories in their own words. The book chooses representative stories from the entire country and concentrates on the stories of two destroyers, the USS Ward and the USS Henley, which were involved in the attack. This book, like all good history, reminds us of the changes that have come since World War II. There has been an overall change in attitudes, especially with the dramatic changes in Europe and the economic dominance of Japan. Much of what we see now relates directly to World War II and the way America and its allies conducted themselves when the war ended. It was the last war which had virtually no gray areas--Germany, Japan, and Italy were the bad guys, and America and its allies were the good guys. It truly was that simple for us before and during World War II. Nothing has been that simple since the fateful day that brought America into the most catastrophic conflict in history.

LC Classification NumberD767