Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History

"Like Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken … Target Tokyo brings to life an indelible era." ―Ben Cosgrove, The Daily Beast On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army b…

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