Eric Hoffer Award 2019 Grand Prize ShortList, and First Horizon Award Finalist. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, it marked the beginning of the war in the Far East, as far as Western powers were concerned, and the expansion of World War II as a whole.The war, of course, had been raging between Japan and China since 1937, but the attack on the United States brought a new dimension to the scope and ferocity of the conflict...