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Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th
by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
from St. Martin's Griffin
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Very nice read 
I'm a big Newt fan...he's a smart, educated former teacher who knows his stuff. The editor of this book should be taken to task, however, as there were many errors throughout. Even the cover material. But I still recommend it to all who lived through Pearl Harbor and who live in Hawaii.
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Pearl Harbor 
I was dissapointed. Although I knew it was fiction, I did not expect history to be rewritten as it was in this book. The destruction as result of the "third" wave was, to me, a re-write of history not necessary and will cause confusion for readers who don't know things happened as written. The author's name on the book will sell many copies, but I'm betting most readers will feel as I do. Sorry 'bout that.
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A plodding attempt at a novel 
The historical research is obviously thorough, but that is all that lifts this book above a one-star rating for me. The characters (who miraculously appear at every interesting point in history...) are wooden and function primarily as talking heads to teach us history and poli sci. The writing is at best yeomanlike and at worst heavy and repetitive. The editor was apparently as asleep as the radar operators on Oahu because he/she missed needless repetitions, transpositions of character names, and typos.
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Wrong Title
The Book should be titled -- Pearl Harbor; What if the Japs Launched Three Waves of Attack Aircraft? Some, probably many, readers and reviewers (published elsewhere and touting the book) are not familiar with the details of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and do not understand that the third and most damaging Jap aircraft attack described in the book is an intentional creation of the authors' imagination. The authors are also far to kind to Admiral Yamamoto's reputation. (I am expecting the authors to... more info
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