The author seems to have researched contemporary newspapers and magazines for each day in December, 1941. The result is a diary of what happened each day, including period detail about the price of a cup of coffee, or the huge numbers of people who were hitchhiking because there weren't enough civilian busses and trains. I was very interested to see how far along we were in the path to war on December 1. I knew that at the time WWII broke out, we had the 18th largest standing army in the world. Roosevelt knew we'd get drawn into it, but was putting it off as long as possible to give us time to get ready. We were furiously involved in Lend-Lease to help the Brits without "officially" being a combatant.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about the beginning of WWII for the U.S.