Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] Weintraub, Stanley [As New] [Hardcover]

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As new condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Stanley Weintraub; Author Dedication; Prelude; Sources; Acknowledgments and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. ""Erudite, sweeping, and contemplative - classic Weintraub."" - Kirkus Reviews. ""It was a 9/11 moment, seventy years ago: a sneak attack where the United States least expected it - Pearl Harbor. While that episode has been exhaustively chronicled, Stanley Weintraub is the first writer to portray the aftermath - from shock, panic, and anger to a new, if uncertain unity among Americans - at Christmastime, 1941."" - Nigel Hamilton. ""Christams 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II. The shock and resulting ramifications of the attack had quickly reverberated worldwide, and for many - including the United States troops on Wake Island who were battling a Japanese landing force and, in the Philippines, losing the fight to save Luzon - it would be an arduous holiday spent far from home. In Japan, the Pearl Harbor strike force returned to Hiroshima Bay and celebrated its sweeping success, while across the Atlantic, much of Europe was frozen in grim Nazi occupation. Meanwhile, in the United States, festive Christmas lights brightened the winter landscape despite recent blackout instructions as Americans attempted to go about celebrating as usual. But there was no denying the reality of the war. Just three days before Christmas, Winston Churchill met Franklin D. Roosevelt on an unprecedented trip to Washington, where they jointly lit the White House Christmas tree and toasted ""the common cause."" As the two Allied leaders met to map out a winning wartime strategy, the most incredible holiday season of the century swept across the globe. In the tradition of his previously acclaimed books Silent Night and 11 Days in December, Stanley Weintraub has once again captured a critical moment in twentieth-century history. Following Roosevelt, Churchill, the Allies, and the Axis through twelve winter days around the world, Pearl Harbor Christmas is a deeply moving and inspiring story about what it was like to live through a holiday season few would ever forget."" - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.