1945

December 7 is the date which will live in infamy. But now Japan is hatching another far greater plan to bring America to its knees....The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a resounding success - except for one detail: A second bombing mission to destroy crucial oil storage facilities was aborted that day. Now in this gripping and stunning work of alternate history Robert Conroy reimagines December 7 1941 to include the attack the Japanese didn''t launch and what follows is a thrilling tale of war resistance sacrifice and courage. For when Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sees how badly the United States has been ravaged in a two-pronged strike he devises another more daring proposal: an all-out invasion of Hawaii to put a stranglehold on the American Pacific Fleet.Yamamoto''s strategy works brilliantly - at first. But a handful of American soldiers and a determined civilian resistance fight back in the face of cruelty unknown in Western warfare. Stateside a counterassault is planned - and the pioneering MIT-trained aviator Colonel Jimmy Doolittle is given a near-impossible mission with a fleet of seaplanes jury-rigged into bombers. From spies to ordinary heroes and those caught between two cultures at war this is the epic saga of the Battle of Hawaii - the way it very nearly was....