In the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, eyes in America
were focused on the war in Europe or distracted by the elevated
mood sweeping the country in the final days of the Great
Depression. But when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and
bombed the American naval base and aerial targets in Hawaii, all of
that changed. "December 1941" takes readers into the
moment-by-moment ordeal of a nation waking to war.
Best-selling author Craig Shirley celebrates the American spirit
while reconstructing the events that called it to shine with rare
and piercing light. By turns nostalgic and critical, he puts
readers on the ground in the stir and the thick of the action.
Relying on daily news reports from around the country and recently
declassified government papers, Shirley sheds light on the crucial
diplomatic exchanges leading up to the attack, the policies on
internment of Japanese living in the U.S. after the assault, and
the near-total overhaul of the U.S. economy for war.
Shirley paints a compelling portrait of pre-war American
culture: the fashion, the celebrities, the pastimes. And his
portrait of America at war is just as vivid: heroism,
self-sacrifice, mass military enlistments, national unity and
resolve, and the prodigious talents of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley
aimed at the Axis Powers, as well as the more troubling
price-controls and rationing, federal economic takeover, and
censorship.
Featuring colorful personalities such as Franklin Roosevelt,
Winston Churchill, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and
General Douglas MacArthur, "December 1941" highlights a period of
profound change in American government, foreign and domestic
policy, law, economics, and business, chronicling the developments
day by day through that singular and momentous month.
"December 1941" features surprising revelations, amusing
anecdotes, and heart-wrenching stories, and also explores the
unique religious and spiritual dimension of a culture under assault
on the eve of Christmas. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the
closest thing to war for the Americans was uncoordinated, mediocre
war games in South Carolina. Less than thirty days later, by the
end of December 1941, the nation was involved in a pitched battle
for the preservation of its very way of life, a battle that would
forever change the nation and the world.
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