Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor - Daniel Madsen

This is perhaps the only book on the salvage of the ships sunk in the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor since that written by Homer Wallin, who oversaw much of the salvage operations. I haven't read that book, but this 2003 offering from the Naval Institute Press does a good job of covering the salvage operations in detail and in chronological order. It contains a number of photos, but surprisingly only a few drawings. And while the photos are good, they are barely enough to cover the scope of the operations. A cursory search on the Internet (particularly the online photo collections of the Naval Historical Center) reveals many, many more photos of the salvage operations. And since it decidely difficult to tell exactly what is being shown in the photos of wreckage covered in oil, especially for laymen, more explanation would have been very helpful.
In addition, while the book provides more detailed information on the technology of salvage operations - for example how the patches to cover torpedo damage on the battleships were constructed and differed from ship to ship - again, to a layman some of this is difficult to comprehend without drawings or other aids. There were many instances where drawings - existing drawings - of the damaged battleships, such as those of the Arizona and Oklahoma, would have been extremely helpful.
The author makes clear that the book was intended to be of the salvage operations only - not the attacks nor of the reconstruction of the ships, which was in some cases when the full picture of the extent of the damage was discovered. In that it succeeds, because it tells a coherent story of the many responsibilities and crises confronting the salvage work in a way that other books, which focus on the salvage of a particular ship, do not. But while this may well be the whole story, it isn't the whole picture.