Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath

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Doubleday, 1982 - History - 366 pages
"A shocking account of judgments distorted by politics and career hunger...fascinating reading."-Los Angeles Times. Pulitzer Prize-winning Toland's account of the events surrounding the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Some Admiral or Some General in the Pacific May
28
Settle Yourself in a Quiet Nook Somewhere and
43
Mutiny on the Second Deck
57
Copyright

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About the author (1982)

John Willard Toland was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin on June 29, 1912. He received a B. A. from Williams College and attended the Yale University School of Drama from 1936 to 1937. From 1942 to 1949, he served as a captain in Special Services in the Army Air Force, stationed in the United States. His first book, Ships in the Sky, was published in 1957. His other books include Adolf Hitler, Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath, and Captured by History. He won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. He died from pneumonia on January 4, 2004 at the age of 91.

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