Lord goes into meticulous detail to recount the day all the way from the Japanese build up of a secret mission, to the Americans living and stationed on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember.Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt said, 'a date which will live in infamy.' Day of Infamy is a fascinating account of that unforgettable day's events.
He illustrates how everyone was oblivious to extreme nature of events going on around him or her, even after the bombs were dropped. This is obvious in Chapter VII's title: "I Didn't Even Know They Were Sore At Us!", p 64. Lord shows the way Americans believed that no one had the ability to reach them, let alone attack the U.S. During the days of South Africa’s racially oppressive apartheid system, it was often said that one of the best ways to understand the complex problems of that country was to read the mysteries of James McClure, a South African mystery writer whose novels probed deeply into both black and white communities and vividly revealed human dimensions.
As author James Michner wrote in The New York Times, " It stuns the reader with the weight of reality." He does not spend a lot of time pointing fingers or placing blame, but remains on the raw human experiences of the day. How untrained they are at putting the clues together, and just how unprepared they can be, until after the fact- when they become fiercely patriotic and regroup. Walter Lord reminds the reader of just how innocent people are in the moments before history is changed forever. Day of Infamy by Walter Lord ISBN 13: 9780030276200 ISBN 10: 0030276209 Unknown Fredericksburg, Tx.: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Lord is also known for his bestselling book A Night to Remember, which was written in the same style as this book, with minute-to-minute accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. Roosevelts' speech before Congress the following day. He ends with the famous national radio address of President Franklin D. Lord wrote 12 books, honing an eye-witness approach to history whether it was Japans attack on Pearl Harbor (Day of Infamy) or the defense of the Alamo (A Time to Stand) or the Battle of Midway (Incredible Victory). He begins with the innocence (and evils) of the night before the tragedy. Walter Lords A Night to Remember is a minute-by-minute account of the Titanics final hours. In this book, Lord painstakingly reconstructed not just the "why" and the "way" of the attack, but also how it happened, how people could have been so unaware of what might happen, and the slowness to regroup when it did.
Walter Lords' Day of Infamy traces the drama of the massive aerial attack of Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. (New York: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 2nd Edition, 1985), 227 pp.
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