Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
James M. Scott
Target Tokyo was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History. On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan's factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America's morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780393246766
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- World War IIDoolittle RaidPacific War
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryShortlistedMajor(2016)
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