December 7, 1941--at exactly 7:55 a.m. on a seemingly peaceful Sunday morning, the United States was plunged into the greatest war in history!
What were the events which determined the Pearl Harbor catastrophe? What were the last few days on Wake Island like? What really occurred on the infamous Bataan Death March and why did it happen? How did MacArthur make his dramatic escape from Corregidor? And what is the story behind the greatest capitulation in American history, General Wainwright's forced surrender of the Philippines?
But Not in Shame begins with the race to decode intercepted secret Japanese messages the day before the Pearl Harbor attack, and ends six months later with the stunning victory which unexpectedly turned the tide--the Battle of Midway. More than an exciting narrative of battles and leaders, it is a story of the individuals on both sides who took part in the most critical decisions and momentous events.
December 7, 1941--at exactly 7:55 a.m. on a seemingly peaceful Sunday morning, the United States was plunged into the greatest war in history!
What were the events which determined the Pearl Harbor catastrophe? What were the last few days on Wake Island like? What really occurred on the infamous Bataan Death March and why did it happen? How did MacArthur make his dramatic escape from Corregidor? And what is the story behind the greatest capitulation in American history, General Wainwright's forced surrender of the Philippines?
But Not in Shame begins with the race to decode intercepted secret Japanese messages the day before the Pearl Harbor attack, and ends six months later with the stunning victory which unexpectedly turned the tide--the Battle of Midway. More than an exciting narrative of battles and leaders, it is a story of the individuals on both sides who took part in the most critical decisions and momentous events.
John Toland (1912-2004) was an award-winning American author and
one of the most widely read military historians of the twentieth
century. His most well-known work is perhaps The Rising Sun, winner
of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the first
book in English to tell the story of the Pacific War from the
Japanese perspective. Although primarily an author of historical
nonfiction, he also wrote novels, plays, and short stories. Among
his published books were four New York Times bestsellers: But Not
in Shame, The Last Hundred Days, Adolf Hitler, and Infamy.
Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater,
including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals.
He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many
television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to
Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case,
Gilmore Girls, and others.
"Compelling and candid...Big and sweeping...This is hard-hitting, snappy, gripping, and gritty set-the-record-straight reporting."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
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