The Pearl Harbor National Memorial is something I hope everyone can one day visit as it is a remarkable journey into history.
What I felt was missing in this book was the emotion, the sacrifice, the reality of the families in losing a loved one as many of the men joined up for an education, a free meal with room and board, and money as many were poor from poverty stricken areas.
It felt more text book that read off like a history lesson rather than a nonfiction account with several families (brothers) and their connection to the events that led up to that day and the days following in the wake of disaster.
I've read many books of WWII and the USS Arizona and this for me was probably not quite the level that the others were and for that I gave it three stars with the main problems being it was a bit hard to follow the brothers, it was broken off into three parts ( the brothers, the attack, and the aftermath) with the exact locations of the men and the crew prior to the bombings but the main problem was the lack of emotion throughout the entire book.
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