Day of Infamy Author:Walter Lord This fast paced account offers one of the finest reenactments of December 7,1941 ever written and answers some most often asked questions about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Author Walter Lord provides inside stories and shows the dramatic moments of courage, as well as almost humorous moments of realization when soldiers realized this w... more »as an actual assault with "real planes and real bombs" and not a practice drill. An utterly fascinating behind the sense story as the author uses the same techniques he used when he "refloated the Titanic". Originally published in 1952, republished in 1992.« less