The Japanese scan Hawaiian radio stations to see if their moves have been detected a U.S. Lord begins by showing how Japanese admirals, three months before their notorious sneak attack, "tested the idea on the game board at the Naval War College." (It didn't go nearly as well there as it did in real life.) Then he proceeds briskly through the preparations for the assault and delivers a minute-by-minute account about those fateful hours in Oahu. Day of Infamy deserves to stand beside that classic as a gripping narrative, and the subject matter, of course, is infinitely more important. Walter Lord is best known for A Night to Remember, his book on the voyage of the Titanic. There may not be a better book on what happened at Pearl Harbor than Day of Infamy-and it's not as if the Pearl Harbor story has lacked chroniclers.
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