in 1935 to 1936, during which he said: "I saw Hitler operate firsthand and heard him speak a number of times." Family In 1937 he married Anne Root, a professor's daughter from Iowa City. They had two daughters and a son. They moved to Maryland, where Prange took employment as a history instructor at the University of Maryland. Death Prange died on May 15, 1980, in Baltimore, Maryland, from cancer, aged 69. 'Prange Park' in Pomeroy is named after him. See also Attack on Pearl Harbor Events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory Gordon W. Prange Collection Selected bibliography Gordon W. Prange (1963), Tora! Tora! Tora!, in Reader's Digest, November and December issues. All below by Gordon W. Prange, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon: At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (1981), Miracle at Midway (1982), Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring (1984), in which the authors detail the undercover operations of the spy ring headed by Richard Sorge and Hotsumi Ozaki that conveyed highly-secret information from Tokyo to the Soviet Union between 1933 and 1941 Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History (1986), December 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor (1988), God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (1990), References External links The Gordon W. Prange Collection at the University of Maryland Prange, Gordon W. Gordon W. Prange papers, at the University of Maryland libraries 1910 births 1980 deaths American military writers Historians of World War II Attack on Pearl Harbor Douglas MacArthur University of Maryland, College Park faculty University of Iowa alumni People from Calhoun County, Iowa Writers from Maryland 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Deaths from cancer in Maryland Historians from Iowa American male non-fiction writers