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**Remember Pearl Harbor

by Thomas B. Allen

Reviewed October 10, 2001.
National Geographic Society.  2001.  57 pages.

This book also seemed timely somehow.  The author interviewed both American and Japanese survivors, and includes numerous photographs.  I found this quotation from the foreword disturbing, in the light of recent events:  “If you remember this war and its cost on human lives and suffering, you will never want another war”  (from the foreword, by Robert D. Ballard).  (Not quite so simple, is it?)  It explained the whole Pearl Harbor attack very clearly--I learned a lot.  The book only briefly covered the rest of World War II and the consequences of the attack.  My one quibble was that I thought that the 100,000 people killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have been mentioned a little more prominently than simply in a chart of the war’s events at the end. 

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