Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was determined to show the world that our nation would not be intimidated or defeated by enemy powers. A stunt pilot with a doctorate from MIT, Jimmy Doolittle came forward and led 80 young men in an assault on the mainland of Japan, permanently turning the tide of the war in the Pacific. Providing an account of the legendary Doolittle Raid, Michel Paradis also traces the fates of the two lost crews who fell into the hands of the Japanese; the dramatic rescue of the survivors in the last weeks of the war; and the trial led by two dynamic and opposing young lawyers—in which both the United States and Japan accused the other of war crimes—that would change legal and military history.