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Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th
Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen

St. Martin's Griffin, 2008 - 384 pages

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Great fiction based on reality

This is a unique look into a serious time in our history. While i am part of a newer generation and was not alive during this time, i found it this book to be very enlightening and entertaining.


Pearl Harbor

Facts need Checking

Mr. Gingrich's and Forstchen's book on Pearl Harbor is a good read, but there are quite a few factual errors that should not be there. Having Admiral Yamamoto lead the attack would have been like Admiral Nimitz being on one of the carriers at Midway. But since Yamamoto was close by during the Japanese operation at Midway, that premise at least had a posiblity. There were some 300 U.S. Army planes stationed in Hawaii, and at maximum 200 were destroyed or damaged in the first two Japanese attacks, to have only a few planes available to repel the Japanese third attack is unrealistic. This was only one of too many lack of attention to actual details that left me disappointed in the posibility of what an actual Japanese Third attack could have done in damage to U.S. forces there in Hawaii.


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Gingrich is improving as an author

I was hesitant to give a Newt "written" book another try after his first WWII book "1945". However, I was pleasantly surprised with this novel. It was a fast paced easy read. The size of the book and the easy text make it a good book to pick up and complete on the same airline flight.






Infamous Proofreading

This work is fairly well written, but the editing and proofreading are execrable. It is history that Yamamoto considered leading the Pearl Harbor raid personally, the premise used by the authors in this book and in "Days of Infamy", and it serves them well.

At Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nagumo terminated a bold campaign with a too conservative tactical error. At Midway he dithered away a tactical advantage and allowed his opponents to strike the first blow of the carrier vs. carrier battle, a blow that proved fatal for Japan.




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Not quite up to the Civil War series

Gingrich and Forstchen are on a roll. Following up on their dazzling Civil War trilogy comes a trilogy surrounding the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. This trilogy asks "what if" Yamamoto had personally led the attack on Pearl. It is well crafted and well written and a darn good read. All that said, it lacks the bold swagger of the Civil War trilogy which read like a labor of love.


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Fresh from their series on the American Civil War, bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen now launch a new epic adventure by applying their imaginations and knowledge to the ?Date of Infamy?---the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor covers the full spectrum of character and events of that historic moment, from national leaders and admirals to the views of ordinary citizens caught in the chaos of war. From the chambers of the Emperor of Japan to the American White House, from the decks of aircraft carriers to the playing fields of the Japanese Naval Academy, this powerful story stretches from the nightmare slaughter of China in the 1930s to the lonely office of Commander James Watson, an American cryptographer, who suspects the impending catastrophic attack. It is a story of intrigue, double-dealing, the horrific brutality of war, and the desperate efforts by men of reason on both sides to prevent a titanic struggle that becomes inevitable.

A compelling, meticulously researched saga, Pearl Harbor is also a novel of valor about those who took party in this cataclysmic moment in world history. It inaugurates a dramatic new Pacific War series that begins with the terrifying account of the day that started it all.




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