02108cam a2200349Ia 4500 1129212244 OCoLC 20210907143901.0 191118s2020 nyub b 000 f eng d 9780593129623 (OCoLC)1129212244 AJM n-us-hi 813/.54 23 Shaara, Jeff, 1952- author. 8466 To wake the giant : a novel of Pearl Harbor / Jeff Shaara. First Edition. New York, NY : Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020] xxiv, 502 pages : maps ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. Includes bibliographic references. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan's ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align themselves with Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, who wage their own war of conquest across Europe. Meanwhile, the British stand nearly alone against Hitler, and there is pressure in Washington to transfer America's powerful fleet of warships from Hawaii to the Atlantic to join the fight against German U-boats that are devastating shipping. But despite deep concerns about weakening the Pacific fleet, no one believes that the main base at Pearl Harbor is under any real threat. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Fiction. 8898 Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 Fiction. 8899 World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. 624 Action and adventure fiction. lcgft. 613 War fiction. lcgft. 2761 Historical fiction. lcgft. 129 ddc BOOK 27793 27793 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2021-09-07 29.99 0 SHAA 63104 2021-10-06 2021-09-07 BOOK