While Liberty Slept
“Admirals, sailors, generals, privates, ordinary civilians – some 577 participants – have unselfishly joined forces to help me piece together this picture of that famous Sunday” (Lord, 213). Walter Lord, the father to a legion of best-selling historic books, is most avowed for A Night to Remember, the culmination of buoyant eyewitness descriptions from the sinking Titanic. Day of Infamy is an enthralling non-fiction delivering a chronicle of singular takes from the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Lord brings the tragic event of the attack to life with a minute-by-minute report of individual experiences. “No matter how bad things were, men remembered to take care of absurd details” remarks Lord, on the American …show more content…
Lord provides a sequential tour of trees with nary a glimpse of the surrounding forest. Each character presented unveils a unique view and energizes the story with witty commentary that leaves the reader yearning for more. Intimate elements plant the reader in the mind of each soul, yielding a stimulating first-person approach to navigating the stories. “Powder, I can’t keep throwing things at them” bellowed a Boatswain’s Mate, hoping to do something more useful than “slinging wrenches at low-flying planes” (Lord, 85-86). Lord’s format for integrating the results of various interviews and references to historical documents gives little clarity to the event as a whole. The interpretation is graciously subjective to the views of American participants. In fairness, most Japanese contributors were killed during the war, leaving Lord unable to include their comprehensive perception of the attack. Unlike other documentaries and texts related to December 7, 1941, Day of Infamy embraces the details of precisely how and why America was shocked by the attack. Lord so eloquently frames how America dismissed the beginning of the attack as drills or other explainable occurrences. Without regard for situational awareness, those surrounding Pearl Harbor were both individually and systematically contributing to their own demise. While Pearl Harbor so peacefully slept, Lord articulately tells of the meticulous planning and attention to the most precise of details the Japanese military prior to unleashing hell on the unsuspecting Pearl
“Admirals, sailors, generals, privates, ordinary civilians – some 577 participants – have unselfishly joined forces to help me piece together this picture of that famous Sunday” (Lord, 213). Walter Lord, the father to a legion of best-selling historic books, is most avowed for A Night to Remember, the culmination of buoyant eyewitness descriptions from the sinking Titanic. Day of Infamy is an enthralling non-fiction delivering a chronicle of singular takes from the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Lord brings the tragic event of the attack to life with a minute-by-minute report of individual experiences. “No matter how bad things were, men remembered to take care of absurd details” remarks Lord, on the American …show more content…
Lord provides a sequential tour of trees with nary a glimpse of the surrounding forest. Each character presented unveils a unique view and energizes the story with witty commentary that leaves the reader yearning for more. Intimate elements plant the reader in the mind of each soul, yielding a stimulating first-person approach to navigating the stories. “Powder, I can’t keep throwing things at them” bellowed a Boatswain’s Mate, hoping to do something more useful than “slinging wrenches at low-flying planes” (Lord, 85-86). Lord’s format for integrating the results of various interviews and references to historical documents gives little clarity to the event as a whole. The interpretation is graciously subjective to the views of American participants. In fairness, most Japanese contributors were killed during the war, leaving Lord unable to include their comprehensive perception of the attack. Unlike other documentaries and texts related to December 7, 1941, Day of Infamy embraces the details of precisely how and why America was shocked by the attack. Lord so eloquently frames how America dismissed the beginning of the attack as drills or other explainable occurrences. Without regard for situational awareness, those surrounding Pearl Harbor were both individually and systematically contributing to their own demise. While Pearl Harbor so peacefully slept, Lord articulately tells of the meticulous planning and attention to the most precise of details the Japanese military prior to unleashing hell on the unsuspecting Pearl