December 7 is "the date which will live in infamy." But now Japan is
hatching another, far greater plan to bring America to its knees. . . .
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a resounding
success-except for one detail: a second bombing mission, to destroy
crucial oil storage facilities, was aborted that day. Now, in this
gripping and stunning work of alternate history, Robert Conroy
reimagines December 7, 1941, to include the attack the Japanese didn't
launch, and what follows is a thrilling tale of war, resistance,
sacrifice, and courage. For when Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sees how badly
the United States has been ravaged in a two-pronged strike, he devises
another, more daring proposal: an all-out invasion of Hawaii to put a
stranglehold on the American Pacific Fleet.
Yamamoto's strategy works brilliantly-at first. But a handful of
American soldiers and a determined civilian resistance fight back in the
face of cruelty unknown in Western warfare. Stateside, a counterassault
is planned-and the pioneering MIT-trained aviator Colonel Jimmy
Doolittle is given a near-impossible mission with a fleet of seaplanes
jury-rigged into bombers. From spies to ordinary heroes and those caught
between two cultures at war, this is the epic saga of the Battle of
Hawaii-the way it very nearly was. . . .
