Pearl Harbor

Foreword

Introduction: December 7, 1941: Day of infamy

Prologue to infamy: Advocating a strategy of ambush

Planning the attack

Fateful warning ignored

Suspicious telephone call

Last-minute messages fail to avert war

Closing in on the target

Attack on battleship row: Whistle of falling bombs

Inside the danger zone

View from the Arizona's crow's nest

Abandoning the Arizona

Chaos below decks

Fire on the waters

Caught in the second wave of attackers

Land targets and installations: Devastation at Hickam field

Hickam airman runs for his life

Assaults on living quarters

Fight to save the injured

Defending the beaches

Immediate aftermath: Escape from the capsized Oklahoma

Verbal and official war declarations

Shipping the wounded home

Salvaging damaged ships

Congress's investigation of the attack

Chronology

Further research

Index

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