Immediately after Japans attack on Pearl Harbor, daredevil flyer Jimmy Doolittle led a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo itself. This is the true account of how ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history.

Craig Nelson is the author of three previous books. His writings have appeared in Salon, Blender, Genre, and a host of other publications. He was an editor at HarperCollins, Hyperion, and Random House for almost twenty years and has been profiled by Variety, Interview, Manhattan, File, Inc., the Daily News, Publishers Weekly, and Time Out. He lives in New York City.

Raymond Todd is an actor-director in the theater, a poet, a jazz trombonist, and a documentary filmmaker who lives in New York.