Walter Lord Day Of Infamy Quotes

“It was a moment for forgetting the cares of the day and enjoying the breathless nights. Isn’t that a beautiful sight? (Lord, pg.4)” This book is about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Although, there are many books about the bombing of Pearl Harbor; in my class we were required to read Day of Infamy by Walter Lord. Walter Lord was a well-known publisher in his time. Not only did he write the book Day of Infamy but he also wrote A Night to Remember and Life. One of his best book turned out to be the Day of Infamy it was one of his best seller. One of Lords well known quotes is “Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future”. Day of Infamy is about how the Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor

is a part of the territory of Hawaii. President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy."
Walter Lord is known for helping capturing historical events moment by moment.

In his book A Night to Remember he writes about people’s emotions, thoughts, and actions during the sinking of the titanic. Most of all of Walter Lord’s novel was about tragic historical events; such as A Time to Stand, The Past That Would Not Die, and A Night to Remember. I found a quote about his view of his main characters in this novel which states ‘The novel does not only have one main character, but rather all characters hold the same importance in the story”. Knowing this gives me an understanding that Walter Lord doesn’t care about his characters but cares more so about the event going on. I’m not saying that the character in his novels aren’t important but that just isn’t his main focus. He focuses more so on the minute by minute of what is going on during this event. Walter Lord most likely wrote this book to help inform his readers about the historical event; which is the bombing of Pearl

Harbor.
Walter Lord’s main purpose of this book is to capture the heroism and the tragedy by those who experienced the attack firsthand. I say that because he was determined to gather the information needed for him to write this book” Lord traveled over fourteen thousand miles and spoke or corresponded with over five hundred individuals on both sides who were there, creating the best account we have of one of the epic events in American history”. This book is supposed to help give readers the persona of actually being there “Japanese bullets set off some flares, which burned the ship in half as it crashed-landed at Hickam (Lord, pg.76)”.
A few positive features in this book are the pictures.

I know that it might seem cliché a book with pictures in it but it’s not. Having pictures in the book helps me to set the mood of the book. This includes the setting, the characters and the damages that were created because of the bomb. A negative thing I’ve noticed about this book is that the word choice the author uses. It takes a while for him to get to the good parts of the book, which is the actual bombing. But really that is any book; so there are really no negative things that I can say about this book. Honestly reading in general is a little difficult for me so I actually take finishing a book as an

accomplishment.
Overall the book is a good book. Walter Lord did a good job of helping capture this historical event and expressing individual’s emotions and action or reaction. Not only in this book does it talk about the hour by hour attach on the US but the book also includes the crew, the piolet, and the spies behind the bombing. The only problem I can say this book has is the beginning; the beginning of the book is so boring; which is ironic because from the summary in the back of the book and the foreword writing is really great with action and drama. Then all of the sudden on page one it turned boring and hard to keep up with. To me the book started getting interesting when the pictures became involved, because it helped bring a sense of realism with pictures.