From the Dust Jacket: December 7, 1941 is the culmination of Gordon Prange's monumental Pearl Harbor trilogy, which has been hailed as a classic work of military history and the definitive study of the day that brought the United States into World War II. December 7, 1941 is a moment, richly detailed chronological account of "the day that will live in infamy" that combines an analysis of the major events and an oral history from the military and civilians who were there. Based on Prange's lifelong, impeccable research as well as on hundreds of interviews with firsthand witnesses, December 7, 1941 is filled with drama, action, and pathos. The events of December seventh are related with the dramatic readability of a novel. Prange served in Japan under General MacArthur after World War II, and the book is enriched with hundreds of extraordinary reminiscences of officers, both Japanese and American, whom Prange interviewed in depth immediately after the war, while their memories of Pearl Harbor were still razor-sharp. December 7, 1941 has the human dimension only oral history can provide. With his major work-the long-awaited final volume of the definitive bestselling trilogy on the attack that catapulted the United States into WWII-Prange, Goldstein, and Dillon have provided us with the ultimate Pearl Harbor story.