Overview
Based on extensive interviews with Japanese and American survivors, letters, diaries, and other primary sources, Danger's Hour explores the May 11, 1945, attack on the USS Bunker Hill, one of the deadliest kamikaze attacks of World War II. The book details the story of the ship herself (a technological marvel), her crew, and her kamikaze adversaries. Maxwell Taylor Kennedy shows how crucial this battle was to victory in the Pacific, even though it was overshadowed by the almost simultaneous surrender of the Nazis in Europe. With this extensive research, Kennedy tells the human story on both sides of the battle.
Full Product Details
Author: Maxwell Taylor Kennedy ,
Michael Prichard
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200132058
Publication Date: 25 November 2008
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"A spellbinding account showing that much more than geopolitics was at stake in the Pacific war.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""This is a riveting, thought-provoking, superbly written history that unfolds and surprises like a novel. What we are permitted to participate in is nothing short of hell: a glimpse into the most asymmetrical warfare we Americans have ever faced--the kamikaze pilot."" -- ""Ken Burns, director, producer, and author of The Roosevelts"" Kennedy's text covers the struggle to save the ship, succor her injured, and bury her dead. Solid in the disaster-at-sea department, Kennedy's book, with its original slant on Ogawa, will be of particular interest to the WWII readership. -- ""Booklist"" The author combines extensive archival research with interviews of American and Japanese participants in a spellbinding account showing that much more than geopolitics was at stake in the Pacific war. -- ""Publishers Weekly"""
Author Information
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, is a professor at Boston College and the bestselling author of Make Gentle the Life of This World. He graduated from Harvard University, where he majored in American history, and he served for three years as assistant disctrict attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Michael Prichard is a Los Angeles-based actor who has played several thousand characters during his career, over one hundred of them in theater and film. He is primarily heard as an audiobook narrator, having recorded well over five hundred full-length books. His numerous awards and accolades include an Audie Award for Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman and six AudioFile Earphones Awards. He was named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine. He holds an MFA in theater from the University of Southern California.
