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Air raid--Pearl Harbor! the story of December 7, 1941

Examines from both the American and Japanese points of view the political and military events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Taylor, Theodore, 1921-2006 (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	San Diego : Harcourt, 2001.
Edition:	1st Gulliver books pbk. ed.
Series:	Great episodes.
Subjects:	Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Examines from both the American and Japanese points of view the political and military events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Item Description:	"Gulliver Books." Originally published: New York : Crowell, 1971.
Physical Description:	191 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189).
ISBN:	0152164219 9780152164218 0439846927 9780439846929 9780329262648 0329262645
Author Notes:	Author Theodore Taylor was born in Statesville, North Carolina on June 23, 1921. At the age of seventeen, he became a copyboy at the Washington, D. C. Daily News and was writing radio network sports for NBC in New York two years later. During World War II, he joined the merchant marines and earned a commission as an ensign in the U. S. Navy. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. In 1955, he became a press agent for Paramount Pictures and later became a story editor and an associate producer. He has written over fifty fiction and non-fiction books for young adults and adults. He has received numerous awards for his works including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for The Cay, the 1992 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for The Weirdo, and the 1996 Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction for The Bomb. He died on October 26, 2006. (Bowker Author Biography)