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Historical person
Cordell Hull is represented in the linked historical fiction through crime, espionage and covert power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Jeff Shaara’s To Wake the Giant, as Japan expands its war in China and turns towards Southeast Asia, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull use economic pressure while attempting to avoid a premature conflict.
Series
The Pacific War Series is a two-book sequence covering the transformation of the Pacific conflict from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway. To Wake the Giant follows diplomacy, Japanese planning, American intelligence failures and the sailors caught in the assault of 7 December 1941;…
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