Walter Lord's 'Day Of Infamy'
Walter Lord is an American author who was born on October 8, 1917. He is best known for his book “A Night to Remember”, which was written based on the true story of the ship Titanic. The main point of the book “Day of Infamy” was based on the attack on Pearl Harbor and the days leading up to the event. Anyone that was there at Pearl Harbor go on about their day, and had no idea what was about to take place. An event such as Pearl Harbor was difficult to write about and did not hold my interest. To his defense Lord what in Harvard Law School at the time of the bombing and then later joined the U.S. Armed Forces and think him going through what it is like to be in the military brought his love out for writing non-fiction books, such as Day of
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It does tend to get a bit frustrating or annoying after a while, which makes the book not as interesting as it could be. Almost all of the Japanese who were in the war were killed sometime during the war, so we don’t really get to see their views on what happened. The person reading the book does not even get the main reason on why the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and what the people in Hawaii and in other parts of America thought about it. In order to learn more about Pearl Harbor you should probably read another book or article that can tell you more about It, because this book basically just tells all the characters view points on what happened that day and what was going on between the U.S. and the Japanese on the day of the event. The book “Day of Infamy” and a couple articles I have read like Pearl Harbor from (www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor) do have some similarities, but also have very different ways of telling about the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Day of Infamy was more about people’s viewpoints of Pearl Harbor and not what actually happened and why it happened. Pearl Harbor the article told me more facts about Pearl Harbor such as the two thousand people killed, and the other thousand that were wounded, twenty vessels that were destroyed, along with the three hundred airplanes. (Pearl
It does tend to get a bit frustrating or annoying after a while, which makes the book not as interesting as it could be. Almost all of the Japanese who were in the war were killed sometime during the war, so we don’t really get to see their views on what happened. The person reading the book does not even get the main reason on why the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and what the people in Hawaii and in other parts of America thought about it. In order to learn more about Pearl Harbor you should probably read another book or article that can tell you more about It, because this book basically just tells all the characters view points on what happened that day and what was going on between the U.S. and the Japanese on the day of the event. The book “Day of Infamy” and a couple articles I have read like Pearl Harbor from (www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor) do have some similarities, but also have very different ways of telling about the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Day of Infamy was more about people’s viewpoints of Pearl Harbor and not what actually happened and why it happened. Pearl Harbor the article told me more facts about Pearl Harbor such as the two thousand people killed, and the other thousand that were wounded, twenty vessels that were destroyed, along with the three hundred airplanes. (Pearl