Michael Gannon

After sixty years of questions, misinformation, and accusations, Gannon uses U.S. and Japanese primary sources, including overlooked or unknown military orders, code intercepts, eyewitness interviews, and private correspondence and memoirs to uncover the faulty diplomatic decisions, the U.S. command's ineptitude and the government cover-ups that surrounded the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the beginning of U.S. involvement in WWII.

Ben shu shi yi ben xue shu yu xu shi xiang jie he de shu, shi yi bu zhong yao de shi xue zhu zuo, ye shi yi ge wei da de hai shang gu shi : ji lu le di er ci shi jie da zhan zhong meng jun da bai de jun wang pai jian duiUqian ting de nei mu.

Examines U-boat technology and warfare and describes the adventures of U-123 in American waters during WW2.

In World War II, a German secret agent is landed in Florida by submarine, his mission to obtain details of U.S. warplanes. The operation goes askew when a priest hears of it in the course of a confession and goes after the spy on his own. By the author of the non-fiction Operation Drumbeat.

The definitive history of Florida from prehistory to the twenty-first century. Revised and updated with 15 revised chapters and three completely new ones.

73 p. : 22 cm. +

The New History of Florida, the first comprehensive history of the state to be written in a quarter of a century, is the culmination of the most recent and significant work from a galaxy of specialists. Each of the twenty-two chapters, which weave together in one continuous narrative, was written especially for this volume. Their authors present here not only political, economic, military, and religious information but also social history and personal experiences. Endnotes and a bibliography are appended to each chapter. Florida's first inhabitants entered the peninsula and panhandle about 10,000 years ago. The Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon stumbled ashore near Melbourne Beach in 1513. He called the place La Florida, the first permanent geographic name of European origin to be etched upon the maps of the American continent. Over three centuries of Spanish and English colonial history followed before the United States acquired Florida in 1821. The first state flag was raised over a new capitol in Tallahassee on May 26, 1845. Written to observe the sesquicentennial of statehood, this work will document the rich history of the Sunshine State for general readers, students, and scholars well into the twenty-first century.

This is a welcome mini-successor to Charlton Tebeau's out-of-print A History of Florida. Gannon (history, Univ. of Florida) has updated coverage of the state's long history to include minorities, women, and environmental concerns through the year of Hurricane Andrew, focusing more on social than political history. The book contains some minor factual errors: the town of Cedar Key is misspelled several times as Cedar Keys, which is an offshore wildlife refuge; Gannon laments the exclusionary policies of the Universities of Miami and Florida, which in the 1940s excluded blacks from sports teams, while ignoring the opportunities then afforded African Americans at A&M College, which produced renowned athletes Willie Gallimore and Althea Gibson. Despite these slips, Gannon's work belongs on all library shelves.