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A review by ljrinaldi
History Smashers: Pearl Harbor by Kate Messner
5.0
This series, what can I say about this series. The author takes her subject and layes it out for middle-grade readers so they have the whole story. So often the story of World War II is told in short sound bites, and you dont' get the history behind it. With excerpts from interviews with survivors, this story comes alive as never before.
This covers the history of the Japanese involvement in the the Asian theatre, as well as the build up to the attack on the American fleet in Pearl Harbor.
What is great is this also follows the internment of the Japanese-Americans back on the west coast, and Hawaii. Because, really, all these things are interconnected. So we get stories of that, as well of how the Japanese-Americans, who were in prison camps, still signed up and fought for a country that had so maltreated them.
We need a book like this for every major historical even. The stuff you learn, even if you have been studying this history for a while, I was amazed.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
This covers the history of the Japanese involvement in the the Asian theatre, as well as the build up to the attack on the American fleet in Pearl Harbor.
What is great is this also follows the internment of the Japanese-Americans back on the west coast, and Hawaii. Because, really, all these things are interconnected. So we get stories of that, as well of how the Japanese-Americans, who were in prison camps, still signed up and fought for a country that had so maltreated them.
We need a book like this for every major historical even. The stuff you learn, even if you have been studying this history for a while, I was amazed.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.