Pearl Harbor Christmas
A World at War, December 1941
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Narrated by:
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Malcolm Hillgartner
Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shock was worldwide. While Americans attempted to go about celebrating as usual, the reality of the just-declared war was on everybody’s mind.
United States troops on Wake Island were battling a Japanese landing force and, in the Philippines, losing the fight to save Luzon. In Japan, the Pearl Harbor strike force returned to Hiroshima Bay and toasted its sweeping success. Across the Atlantic, much of Europe was frozen under grim Nazi occupation.
Just three days before Christmas, Churchill surprised Roosevelt with an unprecedented trip to Washington, where they jointly lit the White House Christmas tree. As the two Allied leaders met to map out a winning wartime strategy, the most remarkable Christmas of the century played out across the globe.
Pearl Harbor Christmas is a deeply moving and inspiring story about what it was like to live through a holiday season few would ever forget.
©2011 Stanley Weintraub (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic reviews
“A deeply moving and inspiring story about what it was like to live through a holiday season few would ever forget.”
(Louisville Courier-Journal)“A compact and vivid day-by-day account…chock-full of amusing observations.”
(Washington Post)“Weintraub excels at illuminating larger-than-life characters.”
(Minneapolis Star-Tribune)“A minor genre, the day-by-day chronicle, receives a fine addition as veteran historian Weintraub devotes a chapter each to the last ten days of 1941 plus New Year’s Day.”
(Publishers Weekly)“A detailed yet intimate portrait of the weeks following Pearl Harbor.”
(Boston Globe)“A vivid eleven-day account of a World War II holiday…The author brilliantly juxtaposes the horror and violence of war with the tender nostalgia of Christmas.”
(Kirkus Reviews)“Narrated by Malcolm Hilgartner, the account has the urgency of news bulletins as it juxtaposes battles and diplomatic efforts with holiday preparations.”
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