Synopsis
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.
About Stanley Weintraub
See more books from this AuthorThe author brilliantly juxtaposes the horror and violence of war with the tender nostalgia of Christmas, including gift ideas where “a new Ford or Chevrolet, both soon to be unobtainable, cost $900.” Weintraub cites war memoirs, military dispatches, speeches and diary entries, all to great effect...
Apr 05 2011 | Read Full Review of Pearl Harbor Christmas: A Wor...In his third book about wartime Christmases, Weintraub skillfully weaves tales of the bad news of the war with tales that convey the spirit of the holiday.
Dec 24 2011 | Read Full Review of Pearl Harbor Christmas: A Wor...Stanley Weintraub’s Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941, is a tightly-packed but readable account of the “12 days of Christmas” beginning two weeks after the Japanese attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor (that is, December 21, 1941, to January 1, 1942).
Dec 19 2011 | Read Full Review of Pearl Harbor Christmas: A Wor...The book is interesting in parts, but those parts are far apart and not interesting enough to hold focus for the entire book.
May 26 2012 | Read Full Review of Pearl Harbor Christmas: A Wor...And although Pearl Harbor was a disaster, Toll.
Nov 27 2011 | Read Full Review of Pearl Harbor Christmas: A Wor...I bet you will find something that will interest you wp.me/P2DwkQ-bv0 5 stars for a cleverly devised mystery set in PDX a must read for the tween reader in your family wp.me/p2DwkQ-cmT http://t.co/FN0NuUFC The 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the most significant periods of t...
Jan 28 2012 | Read Full Review of Pearl Harbor Christmas: A Wor...Christmas 1941 found the whole world immersed in war and the United States still stunned by the shock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Dec 12 2011 | Read Full Review of Pearl Harbor Christmas: A Wor...An aggregated and normalized score based on 35 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes