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These three acclaimed war chronicles showcase Walter Lord at the top of his game as a narrative nonfiction master. He illustrates how everyone was oblivious to extreme nature of events going on around him or her, even after the bombs were dropped. Drawn from hundreds of interviews, letters, and diaries, Walter Lords Day of Infamy recounts the many tales of heroism and tragedy of those who experienced the attack firsthand. This is obvious in Chapter VII’s title: “I Didn’t Even Know They Were Sore At Us!”, p 64. Day Of Infamy (LIBRARY OF MILITARY HISTORY)Walter Lord, Too Cubed Unauthorized Volume V (Softcover)Lonna Mae, Two Fish and Five Loaves of BreadMargaret L. As author James Michner wrote in The New York Times, ” It stuns the reader with the weight of reality.” Lord shows the way Americans believed that no one had the ability to reach them, let alone attack the U.S. He does not spend a lot of time pointing fingers or placing blame, but remains on the raw human experiences of the day.
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How untrained they are at putting the clues together, and just how unprepared they can be, until after the fact- when they become fiercely patriotic and regroup. Walter Lord reminds the reader of just how innocent people are in the moments before history is changed forever. Lord is also known for his bestselling book A Night to Remember, which was written in the same style as this book, with minute-to-minute accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. Roosevelts’ speech before Congress the following day. He ends with the famous national radio address of President Franklin D. He begins with the innocence (and evils) of the night before the tragedy. In this book, Lord painstakingly reconstructed not just the “why” and the “way” of the attack, but also how it happened, how people could have been so unaware of what might happen, and the slowness to regroup when it did. Walter Lords’ Day of Infamy traces the drama of the massive aerial attack of Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. Walter Lord, Day of Infamy (New York: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 2nd Edition, 1985), 227 pp.