Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December by Stanley Weintraub starting at $ Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December has 5 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. · A vivid day account of a World War II holiday. As in previous volumes on Christmastime during critical moments in history (General Sherman’s Christmas: Savannah, , , etc.), prolific biographer and military historian Weintraub dramatically recaps the last week and a half of late December The author’s treatment of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor centers on two . · Christmas came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shock—in some cases overseas, elation—was worldwide. While Americans attempted to go about celebrating as usual, the reality of the just-declared war was on everybody’s mind.
Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December avg rating — ratings — published — 13 editions Want to Read saving. Instead, Weintraub tells about the holidays of and the stress that our U.S. Commander in Chief, FDR, was under at the time, and the exchanges he had during Christmas week. The book vividly details the happenings at the White House from the dates of Dec. 22, , to New Year's Day, Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December Audible Audiobook - Unabridged Stanley Weintraub (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) 0 more out of 5 stars 42 ratings.
In "Pearl Harbor Christmas", author Stanley Weintraub discusses the mood in the United States after the Japanese attack. He also looks at events happening in other parts of the world, including the German struggle against the Russians, the heroic return of the Japanese fleet to Hiroshima Bay, the gallant struggle of the Americans on Wake island and in the Philippines, and the mounting British losses in Malaya. “A story of two men of very different personalities and proclivities, Pearl Harbor Christmas is also a recounting of the early days of United States entry into a war that had been going very much as the Axis powers wished. Weintraub neatly juxtaposes the smaller story of the two world leaders’ ideas and personalities with the larger one of events in the war itself.”. Although I expected to learn more specifically about the horrible event at Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, ), the author doesn't spend much time telling of it. Instead, Weintraub tells about the holidays of and the stress that our U.S. Commander in Chief, FDR, was under at the time, and the exchanges he had during Christmas wee "This is a strange Christmas Eve," Churchill began.
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