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  1. Adam Pelko: Book 1

    A Boy at War

    by Harry Mazer

    December 7, 1941: A morning like any other, but the events of this day would leave no one untouched. For Adam, living near Honolulu, this Sunday morning is one he has been looking forward to -- fishing with friends, away from the ever-watchful eyes of his father, a navy lieutenant. Then,... (learn more about this book)

  2. Dear America

    Early Sunday Morning

    by Barry Denenberg

    A moving story of one girl's devastating experience of the "day that will live in infamy."

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  3. December 6: A Novel

    by Martin Cruz Smith

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay comes another gripping novel of loyalty, betrayal, and intrigue on the eve of the greatest military conflict in the history of mankind.... DECEMBER 6 Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles... (learn more about this book)

  4. Days of Infamy: Book 1

    Days of Infamy

    by Harry Turtledove

    On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against United States naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? With American military forces subjugated and civilians living in fear of... (learn more about this book)

  5. Pearl Harbor

    by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser

    "A Thrilling Tale of the Attack That Marked America’s Darkest Day" ---W.E.B. Griffin President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech on December 8, 1941, lasted a mere six and half minutes. But his words and tone—in a monologue that would later be named the Infamy Speech—sent ripples into a nation... (learn more about this book)

  6. At Dawn We Slept

    by Gordon William Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon

    At 7:53 a.m., December 7, 1941, America's national consciousness and confidence were rocked as the first wave of Japanese warplanes took aim at the U.S. Naval fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. As intense and absorbing as a suspense novel, At Dawn We Slept is the unparalleled and exhaustive... (learn more about this book)

  7. Day of Infamy

    by Walter Lord

    A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember . Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt said, "a date which will live in infamy." Day of Infamy is a fascinating account of that... (learn more about this book)

  8. Pearl Harbor (Movie Tie-In)

    by Randall Wallace

    Pearl Harbor is a beautifully written and suspenseful epic saga of love and war. Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker are two daring young pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps who have grown up like brothers and first learned to fly in crop-dusting planes. Rafe has fallen in love with Evelyn... (learn more about this book)

  9. Daughters of Fortune Series: Book 2

    Somewhere a Song

    by Judith Pella

    Book 2 of Daughters of Fortune. Somewhere a Song opens the day after Pearl Harbor as the daughters of newspaper tycoon Keegan Hayes suffer the aftermath on three different continents—journalist Cameron Hayes in Moscow, searching for the half-brother she’s never met; Jackie in California,... (learn more about this book)

  10. The Macmillan Wars of the United States

    Eagle Against the Sun

    by Ronald H. Spector

    Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an abundance of British and American archival material. Japanese scholarship and documents, and research and memoirs of scholarly and military... (learn more about this book)

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