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| Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th | 
| Authors: Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Creator: Albert S. Hanser
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 164752
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.2
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B00192KOLS
Publication Date: May 15, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 A plodding attempt at a novel September 4, 2008
The historical research is obviously thorough, but that is all that lifts this book above a one-star rating for me. The characters (who miraculously appear at every interesting point in history...) are wooden and function primarily as talking heads to teach us history and poli sci. The writing is at best yeomanlike and at worst heavy and repetitive. The editor was apparently as asleep as the radar operators on Oahu because he/she missed needless repetitions, transpositions of character names, and typos.
Wrong Title September 1, 2008
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The Book should be titled -- Pearl Harbor; What if the Japs Launched Three Waves of Attack Aircraft? Some, probably many, readers and reviewers (published elsewhere and touting the book) are not familiar with the details of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and do not understand that the third and most damaging Jap aircraft attack described in the book is an intentional creation of the authors' imagination. The authors are also far to kind to Admiral Yamamoto's reputation. (I am expecting the authors to name a USN aircraft carrier after him in their next book in the series.) It is difficult to sort the fact from the fiction in this novel. The technical notes or prologue would be a good place to explain. Otherwise, well written, and should be helpful to high school and college students falling asleep during US History class as the instructor drones on and on. (I used the derogatory term Jap. The term was commonly used during WW II and many years thereafter and is still used by WW II Vets and the Chinese today; When Japan apologizes for their brutaility in China and Southeast Asia during WW II I'll consider my reducation.)
 Gingrich is improving as an author August 2, 2008
I was hesitant to give a Newt "written" book another try after his first WWII book "1945". However, I was pleasantly surprised with this novel. It was a fast paced easy read. The size of the book and the easy text make it a good book to pick up and complete on the same airline flight.
 Pearl Harbor July 28, 2008
Facts need Checking
Mr. Gingrich's and Forstchen's book on Pearl Harbor is a good read, but there are quite a few factual errors that should not be there. Having Admiral Yamamoto lead the attack would have been like Admiral Nimitz being on one of the carriers at Midway. But since Yamamoto was close by during the Japanese operation at Midway, that premise at least had a posiblity. There were some 300 U.S. Army planes stationed in Hawaii, and at maximum 200 were destroyed or damaged in the first two Japanese attacks, to have only a few planes available to repel the Japanese third attack is unrealistic. This was only one of too many lack of attention to actual details that left me disappointed in the posibility of what an actual Japanese Third attack could have done in damage to U.S. forces there in Hawaii.
Not quite up to the Civil War series July 22, 2008
Gingrich and Forstchen are on a roll. Following up on their dazzling Civil War trilogy comes a trilogy surrounding the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. This trilogy asks "what if" Yamamoto had personally led the attack on Pearl. It is well crafted and well written and a darn good read. All that said, it lacks the bold swagger of the Civil War trilogy which read like a labor of love.
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