# The First Heroes

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- Book: [The First Heroes](https://www.bookquiver.com/craig-nelson/the-first-heroes) ([The First Heroes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/craig-nelson/the-first-heroes.md))
- Authors: [Craig Nelson](https://www.bookquiver.com/craig-nelson)
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- ISBN: 978-01-4200-341-1
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2003-09-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo....