Bayonets in Paradise: Martial Law in Hawai'i During World War II

by Harry N. Scheiber and Jane L. Scheiber

Selected as a 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Bayonets in Paradise recounts the extraordinary story of how the army imposed rigid and absolute control on the total population of Hawaii during World War II. Declared immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack, martial law was all-inclusive, bringing under army rule every aspect of the Territory of Hawaii's laws and governmental institutions. Even the judiciary was placed under direct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824852885
• ISBN13: 9780824852887
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 10.1"