Book Review: 'Dec. 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor'
(C) 1991 Warner Books When the late historian Gordon W. Prange and his two co-authors, Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, set out to write At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor , they realized that they had too much material for one book. The Pearl Harbor story, after all, is so vast and complex that, even without the ill-advised revisionist accounts and conspiracy theories that have become a cottage industry, one volume isn't enough to convey to a contemporary reader the import and impact that the "Day of Infamy" had -- and continues to have -- on American history and foreign policy. Indeed, after Prange's sudden death in May 1980, Goldstein and Dillon not only finished At Dawn We Slept , but followed that best-selling volume with four related books ( Miracle at Midway, Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History, Target: Tokyo, and Dec. 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. ) which delved deeper into topics that At Dawn W...