Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 (repost)
Stanley Weintraub, "Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Publisher: Da Capo Press | ISBN: 0306820617 | 2011 | EPUB | 224 pages | 2 MB
Publisher: Da Capo Press | ISBN: 0306820617 | 2011 | EPUB | 224 pages | 2 MB
Christmas 1941 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. United States troops on Wake Island were battling a Japanese landing force and, in the Philippines, losing the fight to save Luzon. In Japan, the Pearl Harbor strike force returned to Hiroshima Bay and toasted its sweeping success. Across the Atlantic, much of Europe was frozen in grim Nazi occupation.