Day of infamy by walter lord4/29/2023 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. (New York: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 2nd Edition, 1985), 227 pp.
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