Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan
On December 7, 1941, America's hopes of remaining neutral in World War II disappeared in the oily smoke that roiled from her battleships burning at Pearl Harbor. The nation faced Herculean tasks to strike back against the Imperial Japanese military that had attacked her. Victory demanded crossing thousands of miles of ocean, creating new weapons, and arming hundreds of thousands of young men to fight their way across a series of desolate islands that a fanatical enemy had fortified to exact the highest possible price from the American troops.
Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan portrays this epic story, using black-and-white photographs selected from the finest archives and private collections.
From the sinking of the Arizona to the raising of the Stars and Stripes over Japan, Historic Photo of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan depicts in a way mere words cannot the determination, struggle, and sacrifices of America's fighting men as they rose to the challenge of liberating free peoples of the Pacific from a conquering invader.
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Book details
- Author
- Bob Duncan
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › Wars & Conflicts › World War II
- Topics
- Pacific Theater · military history · black-and-white photography · pictorial history · American history
- ISBN-13
- 9781596524224
About the author
ROBERT ANDREW "BOB" DUNCAN served as the first director of the Maury County Archives and as Maury County Historian, holding that role until his retirement in 2018. His recent books include Born Old in Sin, Dimple of the Universe and River of Fire.
Duncan also served as Maury County Commissioner for twelve years, from 1992 to 2004, and authored two World War II photo books, Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan and Historic Photos of World War II: North Africa to Germany.
When not writing, Duncan was a frequent speaker on American history. That engagement with local and national history informed his series of books compiled from his Hindsight columns in the Columbia Daily Herald.