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Christmas 1941 came up bit more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The distress - sometimes abroad, elation - was worldwide. While People in the usa attempted to start celebrating as normal, the reality of the just-declared conflict was on everybody's head. United States soldiers on Wake Island were battling a Japanese getting make and, in the Philippines, shedding the fight to save Luzon. In Japan, the Pearl Harbor hit force went back to Hiroshima Bay and toasted its sweeping success. Over the Atlantic, much of Europe was frozen under grim Nazi job. Just three days and nights before Christmas, Churchill shocked Roosevelt with an unprecedented trip to Washington, where they jointly lit the White House Christmas tree. As the two Allied leaders fulfilled to map out a winning wartime strategy, the most exceptional Christmas of the century played out throughout the world. Pearl Harbor Christmas is a deeply moving and motivating story about what it was like to live through a holiday season few would ever before forget. Stanley Weintraub is a National Book Prize finalist, teacher emeritus of arts and humanities at Penn Express University, and the writer of numerous histories and biographies, including Silent Evening, and 11 Days in December. Editor of a ten-volume edition on the works of George Bernard Shaw, he lives in Newark, Delaware.
