East Wind Rain; A Pictorial History of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1989. Eighteenth Printing. Wraps. x, 182 pages. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches. The book includes a Preface, Introduction, Acknowledgments, and Photo Credits. The book contains 9 maps (most of them full page maps), as well as more than 100 black and white photographs. Stan B. Cohen has been an author and publisher in Missoula for more than three decades and has been a founder or board member of several local museums. The book title, "East Wind Rain," was the code phrase used by the Japanese government to notify its diplomatic corps throughout the world that it had made the decision to go to war with the United States. The two-hour attack on Pear Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, ranks among those remarkable moments that changed not only American history, but also events in the rest of the world. One could say that from the time the Japanese planes left their carriers until the first bomb dropped at 7:55 a.m., the world was in limbo. The Pearl Harbor attack was not an isolated incident, but part of an overall plan for the conquest of Southeast Asia and the promotion of what the Japanese called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. More