Résultats pour "Pearls" dans Militaire

This book by the world expert on Pearl Harbor blows the top off a 70-year cover-up, reporting for the first time on long-suppressed interviews, documents, and corroborated evidence. The bottom line thesis: that the attack December 7, 1941 was not unexpected or unprovoked. Nor was it the reason that Franklin Roosevelt declared a war that resulted in massive human slaughter.

Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement reveals all of the eye-opening details of Clausen's investigation and is a damning account of massive intelligence failure. To this day, the story surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor stokes controversy and conspiracy theories. This book provides conclusive evidence that shows how the US military missed so many signals and how it could have avoided the events of that fateful day.

El ataque a la base naval estadounidense de Pearl Harbor cambió el rumbo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, como resultado, fue un evento muy formativo tanto para Estados Unidos como para Japón. Aunque las dos naciones parecían enemigos poco probables al comienzo de la segunda gran guerra, el derramamiento de sangre que tuvo lugar entre ellos sería mayor de lo que nadie podría haber imaginado.

In this “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) account of the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Twomey “infuses a well-known story with suspense” (The New York Times Book Review), offering a poignant new perspective on the most infamous day in...

Author Stephen Young - a seaman on the battleship Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor - recounts his terrifying experience with incredible realism.

I "Krigen i Stillehavet" fortæller E.J. Saabye om den del af Anden Verdenskrig, der begyndte med japanernes angreb på Pearl Harbor i december 1941 og først sluttede, da amerikanerne kastede de to atombomber over Hiroshima og Nagasaki. Fra et dansk perspektiv er denne del af krigen ikke nær så kendt, som den del, der foregik i Europa, men Saabye går grundigt til værks og giver en kyndig beskrivelse af begivenhedernes gang. E.J. Saabye var en dansk kontreadmiral i søværnet og forfatter.

戦争は、忘れられたとき、再び始まる。その地を歩くことでしか見えない、悲劇の真実と平和の重さ。第三次世界大戦前夜を生きる日本人へ。太平洋戦争終結から80年。戦争の記憶が継承されなくなったとき、悲劇は繰り返される。

In 2001, while vacationing on Panama’s Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado came upon the hulk of a mysterious iron vessel, revealed by the ebbing tides in a small cove at Isla San Telmo. He learned that the wreck was the remains of one of the first successful deep-diving submersibles, built in 1864 by Julius H. Kroehl, an innovator during the Civil War. Delgado chronicles the confluence of technological advancement, entrepreneurial aspiration, American capitalist ambition, and ignorance of the physiological effects of deep diving in this compelling narrative.

All Americans are familiar with the "day that will live in infamy." At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor, the advanced base of the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet, was ablaze. It had been smashed by aircraft launched by the carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. All eight battleships had been sunk or badly damaged, 350 aircraft had been knocked out, and over 2,000 Americans lay dead. In less than an hour and a half the Japanese had almost wiped out America's entire naval presence in the Pacific.

Pearl Harbor was unquestionably one of the seminal events in American history, and given the nature of the surprise attack, the entry of the US into the war, and the lingering controversies and conspiracy theories, the attack on Pearl Harbor continues to be a highly charged and heavily debated event. History for Kids: The Attack on Pearl Harbor chronicles the history leading up to the surprise attack, including the negotiations between the Japanese and American governments, and the plotting of the attack itself.