Gordon Prange

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Gordon William Prange (July 16, 1910–May 15, 1980) was the author of several World War II-based manuscripts, published after his death in 1980. Dr. Prange was a Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1937-1980 with a break of nine years (1942-1951) of military service overseas and in the postwar year occupation of Japan. It was during this time that he collected material from and interviewed many former Japanese military individuals and civilians, information which was later used in the writing of his books. Several were New York Times bestsellers, including At Dawn We Slept and Miracle at Midway.

Dr. Prange has a screenwriting credit on the filmTora! Tora! Tora!.

[edit] Selected bibliography

All by Gordon W. Prange, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon:

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (1981), ISBN 0-07-050669-8
Miracle at Midway (1982), ISBN 0-07-050672-8
Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring (1984), ISBN 0-07-050677-9 in which the authors detail the undercover operations of the spy ring headed by Richard Sorge and Hotsumi Ozaki which transmitted highly secret information from Tokyo to the Soviet Union between 1933 and 1941
Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History (1986), ISBN 0-07-050668-X
December 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor (1988), ISBN 0-07-050682-5
God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (1990), ISBN 0-08-037440-9