On 7 December, people in the US will remember the Pearl Harbour attacks that left 2,403 American people – including 68 civilians – dead. It was on that day in 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service struck the Pearl Harbour US naval base in Hawaii, shocking the American public opinion and precipitating the US entry into World War II.
The story of Pearl Harbour has been told in various ways, through the lens of a Hollywood romantic period war drama, through to an Oscar-winning documentary-turned-propaganda-flop by influential filmmaker John Ford.
Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th is part of a two-book series dedicated to the Pacific War.
Over the past 77 years, works of fiction have told the story of the attacks from different perspectives, with varying degrees of accuracy.