Pearl Harbor: America's Darkest Day

by Susan Wels, Daniel K. Inouye (Foreword), John Keegan (Introduction)

More than three hundred remarkable images--including period photographs, historical military artistic renderings, mementos, and maps--chronicle the events of December 7, 1941, when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, drawing the United States into World War II.

Genres: History, World War II, Nonfiction, American History, Naval History

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Susan Wels is a New York Times-bestselling author, historian, and journalist. Her new book, An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder—a New York Times Editors Choice—is the first book to link the assassination of President James Garfield in 1881 to a free-love community in upstate New York. Filled with "rollicking pleasures," according to The New York Times Book Review, "Wels's kaleidoscopic romp is an undeniable thrill." Wels's work has also been praised and published by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, PEOPLE, Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine, the New York Post, Time.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, the San Jose Mercury-News, and The Independent (UK). A graduate of Stanford University in English literature and journalism, she has a master's degree in history from San Francisco State University. She has worked on assignment around the world and served as correspondent on the Titanic Research and Recovery Expedition, reporting daily from the site of the Titanic in the North Atlantic.

Reviews

[Dillon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a great book. I had to read it for a book report and usually one suffers during a book report; I didnt. This book provided many accurate and interesting facts that made me keep reading and helped me greatly with my book report. Overall, Susan Wells did a great job writing this book and i would recommend it to anyone. Even if that person isnt doing a book report on it.

[Erik Graff · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was put together for the sixtieth anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Wels is a professional writer-for-hire and no historian, so this presents the conventional hagiographical American take on the event.

[Rebecca L · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was very good and informative. A must for history nuts like me. I learned a lot by reading it and found it interesting and exciting all the way through. Five stars for being very good and informative.