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November 19, 2001
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Prange & Pearl Harbor: A Magnificent Obsession
UMD professor's definitive work on Japanese attack
profiled on MPT
OWINGS MILLS, MD: One man's obsession, 37 years of his life, 10,000
pages of historical documentation, and the book he authored, are the focus
of Prange & Pearl Harbor: A Magnificent Obsession, airing Thursday,
December 6 at 8 p.m. on Maryland Public Television. This one hour special
from the Maryland State of Mind series explores the work of Gordon
Prange, a University of Maryland professor who researched and wrote At
Dawn We Slept: The Untold History of Pearl Harbor, a book The New
York Times called "impossible to forget."
Prange & Pearl Harbor: A Magnificent Obsession follows Gordon
Prange's life from chief historian in Occupied Japan under General Douglas
MacArthur to his professorship at the University of Maryland through his
unceasing journey to publish what is hailed as a definitive book on the
attack on Pearl Harbor.
Figuratively at what was "ground zero" of a major historical
epoch, Prange was charged with writing the U.S. military history in the
South Pacific, a task that gave him unique access to the Japanese commanders
who planned and executed the attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii.
The special also shows how Prange saved another chapter of Japanese history
when he rescued the archives of the Allies' "Civil Censorship Detachment."
He brought twenty million pages of Japanese documents back to the University
of Maryland in 1950.
Prange & Pearl Harbor: A Magnificent Obsession documents Prange's
relentless research and efforts to publish what would become the now deceased
historians life's work.
This Maryland State of Mind special is produced by Maryland Public
Television in association with the University System of Maryland. Ken
Day is producer.
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