This powerful saga covers the heroic highs and horrifying lows of America’s darkest day—from the White House to the Wheeler Army Air Field, from top-brass military officers, national leaders, and admirals to the ordinary citizens caught in the chaos of war. Compelling and meticulously researched, this novel of valor stretches from the chambers of the Emperor of Japan all the way back to the lonely office of Commander James Watson, an American cryptographer who suspects the impending catastrophic attack. A story of intrigue, double-dealing, the brutality of war, and the desperate efforts by men of reason on both sides to prevent a titanic struggle that becomes inevitable,Pearl Harbor inaugurates the dramatic new Pacific War series—one that entertains as well as informs—from two masters of the genre. [More...]
Within every generation born in America there is the potential of there emerging another “Greatest Generation.” One of us meets almost daily with our youth in the military and working in politics, the other teaches college, and both of us are convinced this current generation does indeed have the “right stuff” preferably for peace, but if need be to defend that which we cherish and value.
Though the living memories are fading, we the inheritors of those memories must never forget. [More...]
November 29, 1941, Army played Navy in front of 100,000 fans. Eight days later, the Japanese attacked and the young men who battled each other in that historic game were forced to fight a very different enemy. Author Lars Anderson follows four players—two from Annapolis and two from West Point—in the epic true story The All Americans.
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It was the most memorable football game of my life. Army lost to Navy 14–6, but it didn’t seem to matter who won or lost. Fans rushed onto the field. Both teams were engulfed in a wild celebration. Spectators in the stands stood hugging and weeping. Both team alma maters were played. The national anthem was played again. Cadets and middies stood close together, all of us singing our hearts out. One week later, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. [More...]
The rivalry between the military academies is legendary. Once those team members step off the football field and into war, the battle cries for one service over another stop, and the support of each service member for another is unyielding. November 29, 1941, Army and Navy battled on the football field. The program for that day included a picture of the USS Arizona, with the caption: "A bow on view of the U. S. S. Arizona as she plows into huge swell. It is significant that despite claims of air enthusiasts no battleship has yet been sunk by bombs." Just a week later, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Arizona was sunk, and the football players and others at the Academies joined together in support of WWII. [More...]
Radioman is the biography of Ray Daves, a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and an eyewitness to World War II. It is based on the author’s handwritten notes from a series of interviews that began on the eighty-second birthday of the combat veteran and gives a first-person account of the world’s first battles between aircraft carriers. [More...]
December 7, 2010, marks the 69th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Those old enough to remember that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 can tell you in great detail exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. Less than 24 hours later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said it was “a date which will live in infamy.” He was right. The course of history changed and neither America nor the rest of the world would ever be the same again. [More...]
Navy families enjoy a special bond through the generations. You listen to your dad’s sea stories, or your older brother’s, and then, when you can finally tell some of your own, you become a member in good standing of an honorable American tradition reaching back to the eighteenth century. Your father can talk of pulling into Cavite in Manila Bay during the big war, and you can say, yeah, I stopped there when we were going out at night and hunting down pirates off Corregidor. My son can tell of flying his navy helicopter through a typhoon to rescue a Russian sailor who had a brain tumor. My daughter flew in F-14’s and can tell stories about being at Top Gun school. Not many families can sit around the dinner table and do that. [More...]
From Library Journal: "Retired Navy captain Deutermann’s latest novel is an epic, eloquent, and stirring tribute to those who served in the Pacific campaign during World War II. Mick is a pilot, and Marsh is an officer on a destroyer. At Annapolis, they were in love with Glory, now a nurse and a widow in Honolulu. As the novel sweeps across the Pacific in bloody confrontations with the increasingly desperate Japanese, the three protagonists are forced to confront their strengths and weaknesses. Mick is becoming a violent drunk, Marsh fears that he is a coward, and Glory is haunted by her husband’s death at Pearl Harbor. VERDICT Deutermann, a superb writer perhaps better known for his Cam Richter series (Nightwalkers), has written a war novel that is both sweeping and intensely personal. It begins with Guadalcanal and Midway and concludes with the largest naval battle in history, Leyte Gulf. Brutal yet poignant, this excellent novel will appeal to fans of David L. Robbins’s World War II novels (Broken Jewel; War of the Rats). [See Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/10.]"—Robert Conroy, Warren, MI [More...]
This dispatch announced the attack on Pearl Harbor. According to the National Archives, it was received at the Squantum Naval Reserve Aviation Base on December 7, 1941 from the First Naval District. [More...]
