On December 7, 1941, when the Japanese air force launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet moored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Pacific war began. The Pearl Harbor attack on the United States changed the course of World War II. In this enthralling volume, readers learn that in the days that followed the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese attacked Burma, Malaya, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, and swept aside weak Allied resistance. Then,...