But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor - John Toland Audiobook

Written by John Toland
Read by Traber Burns
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Currently being serialized prior to publication in Look magazine, John Toland’s But Not in Shame is a compelling, candid appraisal of one of America’s most controversial periods, the 1st 6 months of warfare after the Pearl Harbor attack. Big & sweeping, hotly recalling & recording many sensationalized episodes, often igniting all the powderkeg suspense of a thriller, this appears to be a work of popular punch & persuasion, undoubtedly destined for some best-seller notchings. Based on documents, manuscripts, private diaries, letters, hundreds of interviews in 8 countries with generals & admirals, privates & civilians, including Homilo, Nimitz & Akirn Nara, But Not in Shame has both the aura of authenticity & the sting of a not-till-now-could-it-be-told disclosure. It tackles much of the sub-rosa political intrigue & hysteria of American & British policy, the agonizing early Pacific defeats, Singapore’s shocking downfall, MacArthur’s escape to Australia, the unplanned, gratuitous barbarism of the average Japanese soldier towards American & Filipino prisoners on the infamous Death March, the brutal Java Sea battle, Bataan’s tragic surrender & the ultimate Midway victory. It analyses Japanese tactics, our own shortsightedness, unpreparedness & confusion, along with many telling portraits of Roosevelt, Wainwright, Colin Kelly, Doolittle, Colonel Hattori, Halsey, Tom Dooley & all the other famous figures & the myths & tales that rose around them. This is hard-hitting, snappy, gripping & gritty set-the-record-straight reporting, a major addition to the coverage of the Pacific WWII campaign, one which will hardly go unnoticed.–Kirkus (edited)
Part I - Timetable for Conquest
Part II - The Defenses Crumble
Part III - Battle for Bataan
Part IV - Death of Two Empires
Part V - The Battling Bastards of Bataan
Part VI - From Humiliation to Victory
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index