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Sep 30, 2016
Emily
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This was an interesting book. I really enjoyed learning about what happened after Pearl Harbor and how it affected America (Americans were still lighting up the night with their Christmas lights while MacArthur fled Manila). But at some points it felt like a baseball play-by-play. Weintraub gave all the stats and tried to give context, however, it got boring. It was very difficult for me to finish the book. It could have also have been the narrator. His voice was almost too sonorous. The words b
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Oct 18, 2016
Anne Brown
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it was ok
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I think that the Christmas of 1941 is a fascinating holiday season to examine, and I learned a lot about America's unpreparedness to enter the war and the mentality in those first few weeks. The chapters being formatted by day was a bit confusing for me; I think it would have made more sense to organize the stories by person or location, rather than jumping around all over the globe every few hours or each day.
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