{"product_id":"hawaii-chronicles-iii-ww2-pa","title":"Hawaii Chronicles III: World War Two in Hawaii from the Pages of Paradise of the Pacific edited by Bob Dye","description":"\u003cp\u003ePearl Harbor. December 7, 1941–in the words of President Franklin Roosevelt, “a date which will live in infamy.” More than 350 Japanese bombers, fighters, and torpedo planes struck Hawai’i in two waves, sinking or disabling eighteen ships and destroying more than two hundred aircraft. Close to 2,500 American military and civilians died that morning, another 1,178 were wounded. The Hawaiian Islands had been pulled into the Pacific War and the lives of its citizens were irrevocably changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHawai’i Chronicles III: World War Two in Hawai’i\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elooks at the human and social impact of the war on the people of Hawai’i from 1938, when speculation of a Pacific War first surfaced, to the era of postwar prosperity that followed. Editor Bob Dye has selected articles that originally appeared in the popular monthly magazine\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadise of the Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(now known as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHonolulu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine). An introduction describes the history of the magazine and the colorful characters who published and edited it. Dye then poses the question: How did Hawai’i’s citizenry cope with the war? Blackouts, media censorship, gas and food rationing were imposed. Schools were commandeered, jobs were changed or modified to support the war effort (lei makers were set to making camouflage netting). And soldiers were everywhere: stringing barbed wire (along Waikiki Beach!), guarding public buildings and searching anyone who entered, worrying parents when they dated their daughters.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadise of the Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprovided its readers with an informative, perceptive, and often entertaining look at these and other everyday experiences of life in wartime Hawai’i.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBob Dye\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a Hawai'i-based freelance writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"uhp-tab\"\u003eUH Press, 2000\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"uhp-tab\"\u003ePaperback, 370 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"UH Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33901256114308,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0378\/1161\/7924\/files\/9780824822897-600x902.jpg?v=1784926708","url":"https:\/\/basically-books-co.myshopify.com\/products\/hawaii-chronicles-iii-ww2-pa","provider":"Basically Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}