AT DAWN WE SLEPT:
The The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

50th Anniversary Edition

Gordon W. Prange, in collaboration with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon

VG/VG. Corners slightly bumped. Naval bookplate of previous owner, book otherwise unmarked & clean. No price on jacket; possibly a book club editon. Jacket in mylar protector. (Viking, NY, 1991). Updated with a new Afterword by Donald Goldstein and Katherine Dillon. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index, 889 pages.

"Fifty years after the attack that plunged America into WWII, At Dawn We Slept remains the greatest account of Pearl Harbor ever written. When it was first published in 1981, it quickly established itself as the authoritative record of how Japan planned and executed the infamous assault.

The 1941 attack was a military classic, one of the greatest surprises in the history of warfare. It shattered the quiet Sunday morning on Oahu, destroying myths, illusions, cherished ideas, and assumptions. For the U.S., Pearl Harbor became a national disgrace, and it remains a living symbol of America's lack of alertness and its gross underestimation of a potential enemy. This book tells us about ourselves as a people, our political and military leaders, and the way they thought and acted. Not only was that fateful December 7 an ignominous defeat for the U.S., it marked a watershed in history, a turning point in World War II. After thirty-seven years of unparalleled research, Professor Gordon W. Prange produced the first book that covered the attack on Pearl Harbor from the earliest planning stages to the final aftermath.

Now republished with a new afterword by the co-authors, which discusses the infamous 'winds execute' code and theories of President Roosevelt's possible prior knowledge of the attack, At Dawn We Slept remains the most authentic and absorbing account of one of history's most important battles. "

$30.00