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PEARL HARBOR is an epic love story set in the days when nations
last made the devastating leap from peace to World War. The story
follows two daring young pilots, RAFE McCAWLEY and DANNY WALKER,
who grew up like brothers and first learned to fly in the daring
and dangerous aviation practice of crop-dusting; now they both have
become pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
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Rafe has fallen in love with EVELYN STEWART, a beautiful and courageous
nurse serving in the U.S. Navy. But their love has only just begun
to bloom when their personal destiny--and that of a world on the brink
of war--intervenes.
Bold and idealistic, Rafe has volunteered for the Eagle Squadron,
a group of Americans fighting alongside English pilots during the
Battle of Britain, even though most Americans have no wish to join
into what they consider a European war. Leaving his new love behind,
with the promise that he will return, he heads off for the deadly
skies above the English Channel, while both Evelyn and Danny are transferred
to Hawaii's idyllic paradise--Pearl Harbor.
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They and the other residents of Pearl Harbor are carrying on their
placid lives, unaware of the overwhelming forces moving toward them.
When word reaches Evelyn and Danny that Rafe has been killed in air
combat in Europe, their personal peace is shattered; broken and grief-stricken,
they cling to each other for support, and ultimately fall in love.
Then Rafe returns.
His arrival rips all three of their hearts apart; but before they
have a chance to find resolution, the stupendous attack upon Pearl
Harbor by the combined air and naval forces of Imperial Japan shatters
their world and alters history.
It is a tale of heroism on an epic scale...as well as on a level of
powerful personal intimacy. And the cataclysm of December 7, 1941
is not the end. America's response to the staggering emotional defeat
at Pearl Harbor is to create one of the most daring and unexpected
military events in history: the bombing of Tokyo through a suicide
mission led by aviation legend Jimmy Doolittle. When Colonel Doolittle
pics Rafe and Danny to be his key leaders on the heroic raid, their
lives and their loves for Evelyn are once and more at the center of
this tale of passion and spectacular personal courage. |
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