Film Focus:
Pearl Harbor

Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alec Baldwin



Books About Pearl Harbor


Pearl Harbor: Japan's Fatal Blunder: The True Story Behind Japan's Attack on December 7, 1941, by Harry Albright. Hippocrene, 1988.

Remembering Pearl Harbor: The Story of the USS Arizona Memorial, by the Arizona Memorial Museum Assn., 1984.

Pearl Harbor and Hawaii: A Military History, by the eds. of the Army Times.

Pearl Harbor: Opposing Viewpoints, by Deborah Bachrach. Greenhaven, 1989.

Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor, by Leonard Baker. Macmillan, 1970.

Cover-Up: The Politics of Pearl Harbor, 1941-1946, by Bruce R. Bartlett. Arlington, 1978.

Scapegoats: A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor, by Edward L. Beach. NIP, 1995.

"This is No Drill": Living Memories of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, by Henry Berry. Berkley, 1992.

Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations, 1931-1941, ed. by Dorothy Borg & Shumpei Okamoto. Columbia Univ., 1973.

Remember Pearl Harbor!, by Blake Clark. Modern Age, 1942.

Pearl Harbor Ghosts: A Journey to Hawaii, Then and Now, by Thurston Clarke. Morrow, 1991.

Pearl Harbor: Final Judgment, by Henry C. Clausen & Bruce Lee. Crown, 1992.

The Road to Pearl Harbor, 1941, by Richard Collier. Atheneum, 1981.

Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War, ed. by Hilary Conroy and Harry Wray. Univ. of Hawaii, 1990.

Infamous Day: Marines at Pearl Harbor, 7 December, 1941, by Robert S. Cressman & J. Michael Wenger. USMC, 1992.

The Week Before Pearl Harbor, by A. A. Hoehling. Norton, 1963.

Pearl Harbor, by Edwin P. Hoyt. Avon, 1991.

The USS Arizona: The Ship, the Men, the Pearl Harbor Attack, by Joy Waldron Jasper. St. Martin's, 2001..

Admiral Kimmel's Story, by Husband E. Kimmel. Regnery, 1955.

The Attack on Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated History, by Larry Kimmett and Margaret Regis. Navigator, 1991.

Day of Infamy, by Walter Lord. HRW, 1957.

The Attack on Pearl Harbor: America Enters World War II, byTim McNeese. Morgan Reynolds, 2002.

The Shadow of Pearl Harbor: Political Controversy Over the Surprise Attack, 1941-1946, by Martin V. Melosi. Texas A&M, 1977.

This is Pearl! The United States and Japan-1941, by Walter Millis. Greenwood, 1971, 1947.

Pearl Harbor, the Story of the Secret War, by George Edward Morgenstern. D-A, 1947.

The Square Peg: A Tight Fit in a Tin Can, by Jesse E. Pond, Jr. Pearl Harbor History Assn., 1991.

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, by Gordon W. Prange, with Donald M. Goldstein & Katherine V. Dillon. MH, 1981.

December 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor, Gordon W. Prange, with Donald M. Goldstein & Katherine V. Dillion. MH, 1987.

God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor, by Gordon W. Prange, with Donald M. Goldstein & Kathleen V. Dillon. Brassey's, 1990.

Pearl Harbor, the Verdict of History, by Gordon W. Prange, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillion. MH, 1986.

Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II, by James Rusbridger & Eric Nave. Summit, 1991.

Three Days to Pearl: Incredible Encounter on the Eve of War, by Peter J. Shepherd. NIP, 2000.

Days of '41: Pearl Harbor Remembered, by Ed Sheehan. Kapa, 1977.

Target-Pearl Harbor, by Michael Slackman. Arizona Memorial Museum Assn., 1990.

Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History, by Paul Stillwell. NIP, 1991.

Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, by Robert B. Stinnett. Free Press, 2000.

The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Contribution to the Japanese Attack, by Robert Alfred Theobald. D-A, 1954.

Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath, by John Toland. Doubleday, 1982.

Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy, by Dan Van der Vat. BasicBooks, 2001.

Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, ed. by George M. Waller. Heath, 1965.

Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage, and Final Appraisal, by Homer N. Wallin. USGPO, 1968.

Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941, by Stanley Weintraub. Dutton, 1991.

Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941: America's Darkest Day, by Susan Wels. Time Life, 2001.

Pearl Harbor, by H. P. Willmott. PH, 1983.

Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision, by Robert Wohlstetter. Stanford Univ., 1962.

Trapped at Pearl Harbor: Escape from Battleship Oklahoma, by Stephen Bower Young. NIP, 1991.


Books About James H. Doolittle and the Tokyo Raid

Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary, by Dik Alan Daso. Brassey's, 2003..

The Doolittle Raid: The Complete Story of the Daring 1942 Air Raid Against Japan, by Carroll V. Glines. Orion, 1988.

Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders, Carroll V. Glines. VN, 1964.

Jimmy Doolittle: Daredevil Aviator & Scientist, by Carroll V. Glines. Macmillan, 1972.

Doolittle: A Biography, by Lowell Thomas & Edward Jablonski. Doubleday, 1976.

Target Tokyo: The Halsey-Doolittle Raid, by James M. Merrill. 1964.

The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid--America's First World War II Victory, by Craid Nelson. Viking, 2003.

The Amazing Mr. Doolittle: A Biography of Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle, by Quentin James Reynolds. Arno, 1972, 1953.

The Doolittle Raid, by Duane Schultz. St. M., 1988.

MISCELLANEOUS

Pearl Harbor: The Movie and the Moment. Hyperion, 2001.


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