Days Of '41: Pearl Harbor Remembered

by Ed Sheehan

Sheehan, Ed, Days Of '41: Pearl Harbor Remembered

171 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1987

About the author

Ed has a background in technical research writing and have been published by the International Society of Explosives Engineers. The historical and technical aspects of my novels is thoroughly researched. Hologram Conspiracy is the first of a trilogy.

Hologram Deception and Hologram Destruction are in edit and cover design. He is married to his high school sweetheart, and they have three kids and three grand-kids. They now live in Alabama near their grand-kids.

Reviews

[David Hill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ed Sheehan was an ironworker who arrived at Pearl Harbor in 1940. In this short book, he describes Honolulu and Pearl Harbor in the year before the Japanese attack. In the last few pages he describes what he saw and what he did on the day of the attack and the following day. He also supplies a few sections on the objective history of those days. I suppose he had to provide some context, assuming some reader may not be familiar with the necessary details. These historical sections aren't bad, but they aren't the strength of the book and I'd assume anybody reading this would already be familiar.

It's a much better book than I was expecting. He not only describes Honolulu and Pearl, but the people who were there before that fateful day, and the mood of the times as well.

[Gary Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written by Ed Sheehan, an iron worker at Pear Harbor, wrote this book as a memoir of life before and during the Japanese sneak attack that propelled our nation into WWII. The book surprised me with its beautifully written lyrical descriptions of life in Hawaii before the attack. Its description of the attack itself was limited to those things witnessed by himself personally, so it's just a snapshot of the entire event. The book also contains so background information of the Japanese perspective and their planning of the event that I found interesting. Reading this on the 75th anniversary of the attack added a bit to the emotional experience of this reading.