Numerous riveting eyewitness accounts of the day that lives "in infamy", as told by both American and Japanese participants, are collected in an addition to a series that explores major events in world history.

Foreword -- Introduction: December 7, 1941: Day of infamy -- Prologue to infamy: Advocating a strategy of ambush -- Planning the attack -- Fateful warning ignored -- Suspicious telephone call -- Last-minute messages fail to avert war -- Closing in on the target -- Attack on battleship row: Whistle of falling bombs -- Inside the danger zone -- View from the Arizona's crow's nest -- Abandoning the Arizona -- Chaos below decks -- Fire on the waters -- Caught in the second wave of attackers -- Land targets and installations: Devastation at Hickam field -- Hickam airman runs for his life -- Assaults on living quarters -- Fight to save the injured -- Defending the beaches -- Immediate aftermath: Escape from the capsized Oklahoma -- Verbal and official war declarations -- Shipping the wounded home -- Salvaging damaged ships -- Congress's investigation of the attack -- Chronology -- Further research -- Index -- About the editor.