First Shot: The Untold Story of the Japanese Minisubs That Attacked Pearl Harbor

Craddock, John

ISBN 10: 0071479112 / ISBN 13: 9780071479110

Verlag: International Marine/Ragged Moun, 2006

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000534795

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"If we had only known even a bit of what John Craddock tells us now, our own history could have been so very different."
--Sherry Sontag, coauthor of Blind Man’s Bluff

In First Shot, John Craddock investigates a little-known but clear eleventh-hour warning that, had it been heeded, might have enabled the Navy’s Pearl Harbor command to blunt the Japanese assault and save ships and lives. Craddock reveals that the attack plan of Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto included five midget submarines, each carrying two men and two torpedoes. First Shot vividly recreates the action on the deck of the U.S.S. Ward

on the morning of December 7 as the outmoded relic of an earlier war engaged a tiny, state-of-the-art undersea fighting machine.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

John Craddock, an author of several books and ajournalist, helped launch a series of guidebooks for The History Channel.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: First Shot: The Untold Story of the Japanese...
Verlag: International Marine/Ragged Moun
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good