A Day Of Infamy Chapter Summary

The book A Day of Infamy, written by Lord Walter, covers what could be one of the most important days in our American history. “Pearl Harbor itself was narrow and shallow making it extremely difficult to get at the ship”. P199 By interviewing survivors from the United States Arm Forces, and citizen bystanders from the island Oahu Lord recounts the day of the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. With the personal interviews Lord gives insight as to what the atmosphere was like days leading to the attack.
By including minor details Lord is able to bring the reader drama. He tries to convince the readers that the attack may have not been a total shock due to some foreshadowing warnings weeks and days leading up to the day December 7, 1941. Whether the attack was a surprise or indeed did have multiple warnings lord makes it clear that the US fleet was not prepared for an attack. The author does an outstanding job of portraying the US fleet in water with no way of protection and Japanese taking the advantage of it. He shows readers just how innocent and untrained the Americans are just before history was changed forever. Lord recounts the way Americans presumed that no one had the aptitude to get to them, let alone attack the U.S. This is obviously shown with the name of Chapter VII’s title: “I Didn’t Even Know They Were Sore At Us!” p 64. …show more content…
He doesn’t just tell you what happened on the day of the attack. Lord gives you a strong aspect coming from a direct source that was actually there at the time. I believe that the author argument in the book was that this attack may have not been that big of a surprise. One major thing lord stresses is the fact of the American people not being prepares as stated in the book "Getting word out via radio that this was no drill, this was the real thing.". p155 This book is an excellent source of findings because it gives you a more humanistic side of the Pearl Harbor

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