books.google.com - “Both a serious work of history . . . and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative.”—San Francisco ChronicleOn the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight...http://books.google.com/books/about/Pacific_Crucible_War_at_Sea_in_the_Pacif.html?id=OrgxCfA5VjUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942