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Pearl Harbor Booklist

 

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

• December 6
  Author: Smith, Martin Cruz
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 26 ISBN: 0684872536 Date: 2002
  Kirkus Booklist PW
  As seen through the eyes of an American con man living in Tokyo days before the Japanese attack, December 6 is Smith at the top of his game. The #1 bestselling author of Gorky Park, Red Square, Havana Bay and Rose returns with his most audaciously original and brilliant novel yet.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | World War Fiction | Historical Mysteries
  Updated 8.13.02

Nonfiction

• Pearl Harbor Ghosts: A Journey to Hawaii Then and Now
  Author: Clarke, Thurston
  Publisher: Morrow $ 22 ISBN: 0688083013 Date: 1991
  Kirkus
  From the highly acclaimed author of Equator, an evocation of Pearl Harbor 50 years after the surprise Japanese attack. Clarke sifts the evidence to determine who really bore the blame for the attack, and how that blame has been reconciled with our national response to the Japanese economic miracle.
  Updated 10.25.05
• Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941
  Author: Weintraub, Stanley
  Publisher: Dutton $ 26.95 ISBN: 0525933441 Date: 1991
  Kirkus
  From Pearl Harbor to the Russian front lines outside Moscow, Stanley Weintraub has woven the events of the 20th century's most momentous day into a monumental, hour-by-hour chronicle of an entire world at war. This is brilliant, gripping history--as overwhelming as the fateful weekend it puts into global perspective.
  Updated 10.25.05

For Kids

• Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanse Survivors Tell Their Stories
  Author: Allan, Thomas.B.,
  Publisher: Nat Geo $ 17.95 ISBN: 0792266900 Date: 2001
  Bulletin SLJ
  Compelling first-person accounts from real-life survivors coupled with dramatic images allow the reader to go beyond the history-book accounts of the day of the attack.
  Grades: 6-8 Category: Nonfiction
• A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
  Author: Mazer, Harry
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 15 ISBN: 0689841612 Date: 2001
  Booklist
  In the chaos of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a boy searches for his father who was on a ship that was bombed.
  Grades: 5-9 | Historical Fiction
  Updated 11.2.05
• Under the Blood-Red Sun
  Author: Salisbury, Graham
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 15.95 ISBN: 038532099x Date: 1994
  Booklist Kirkus | BBYA | Scott ODell Prize
  From the award-winning author of Blue Skin of the Sea--a dramatic story of a Japanese-American boy in Hawaii and the impact of the attack on Pearl Harbor on his family and friends.
  Grades: 5-9 | Historical Fiction
  Updated 11.2.05