In Richmond, Confederate president and dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphia-killing U.S. The USA and CSA are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conjure up-for their enemies and themselves. In 1917, The Great War ended and an era of simmering hatred began, fueled by the despotism of a few and the sacrifice of many. Notably most of the Hawaiian Japanese, and Japanese soldiers, are from the Hiroshima area or have such roots.In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States. Oscar van der Kirk, surfer dude and social dropout with a Stanford education.Has a romance with a white girl, Elsie Sundberg. He and his older brother, Hiroshi, see themselves as American. Kenzo Takahashi, the younger of his two young adult sons.Jiro Takahashi, a Japanese-born fisherman who sees Japan as his real country.Career has suffered for his easygoing nature. Lieutenant Saburo Shindo, Japanese naval fighter pilot.
Lieutenant Jim Peterson, American naval fighter pilot, later infantryman, and POW. 
Commander Minoru Genda, architect of the campaign. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, commander of air attack on Pearl Harbor. Platoon Sergeant Les Dillon, long-serving US Marine who participates in the retaking of Hawaii. Navy to become a pilot after Hawaii falls, and participates in the retaking of the islands. 
Joe Crosetti, a young American of Italian descent from San Francisco who joins the U.S. Jane Armitage, Fletch's estranged wife, who is forced into the role of "comfort woman". 1st Lieutenant Fletcher (Fletch) Armitage, a U.S. The second book details the occupation of the islands, and the subsequent defeat of Japanese forces by the United States in 1943.Īs is typical of Turtledove, the story is told by several POV characters: Japan declares a restored Kingdom of Hawaii, with a puppet monarch named Stanley Owana Laanui. Ultimately the Japanese are able to over-run the islands, and hold them for two years. The first book details a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Decemand subsequent invasion and conquest of all of Hawaii. The Days of Infamy series is an alternate history duology by Harry Turtledove, comprising Days of Infamy and End of the Beginning.
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