(paul warfield)

Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower.

While visiting his dying father, the author meets Paul Tibbets, the man who flew the "Enola Gay" and dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and learns about his father's generation's sense of honor and duty.