Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of HistoryThe New York Times–bestselling authors of Miracle at Midway delve into the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII in “a superb work of history” (Albuquerque Journal Magazine). In the predawn hours of December 7, 1941, a Japanese carrier group sailed toward Hawaii. A few minutes before 8:00 a.m., they received the order to rain death on the American base at Pearl Harbor, sinking dozens of ships, destroying hundreds of airplanes, and taking the lives of over two thousand servicemen. The carnage lasted only two hours, but more than seventy years later, terrible questions remain unanswered. How did the Japanese slip past the American radar? Why were the Hawaiian defense forces so woefully underprepared? What, if anything, did American intelligence know before the first Japanese pilot shouted “Tora! Tora! Tora!”? In this incomparable volume, Pearl Harbor experts Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon tackle dozens of thorny issues in an attempt to determine who was at fault for one of the most shocking military disasters in history. |
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... the War Department, and officials there quickly and properly read it as a sign
that any move to extend the induction period for draftees would be opposed most
strenuously. The members of Congress were going on record against militarism.
... the War Department, and officials there quickly and properly read it as a sign
that any move to extend the induction period for draftees would be opposed most
strenuously. The members of Congress were going on record against militarism.
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And many of those were tempered by three concepts: first, that Japan threatened
American interests, not United States' soil (except perhaps the Philippines);
second, that Germany was behind Japan's unfriendly moves toward the United ...
And many of those were tempered by three concepts: first, that Japan threatened
American interests, not United States' soil (except perhaps the Philippines);
second, that Germany was behind Japan's unfriendly moves toward the United ...
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“We have seen her move her troops ... into territory in Indochina, outflanking the
Philippines, getting ready perhaps to move into the Netherlands East Indies and
to attack Singapore. I do not think the United States is going to stand idly by if she
...
“We have seen her move her troops ... into territory in Indochina, outflanking the
Philippines, getting ready perhaps to move into the Netherlands East Indies and
to attack Singapore. I do not think the United States is going to stand idly by if she
...
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But nothing in the available evidence, written or oral, indicates that they ever
planned to move one inch out of their appointed path, whatever the United States
did about it. In fact, all the evidence points to the contrary. Suppose, for example ...
But nothing in the available evidence, written or oral, indicates that they ever
planned to move one inch out of their appointed path, whatever the United States
did about it. In fact, all the evidence points to the contrary. Suppose, for example ...
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1 Harry Elmer Barnes took the position that the small craft “could move out into
the path of the Japanese task forces going southward and draw fire from
Japanese planes or ships, thus giving Roosevelt his all-important and
indispensable ...
1 Harry Elmer Barnes took the position that the small craft “could move out into
the path of the Japanese task forces going southward and draw fire from
Japanese planes or ships, thus giving Roosevelt his all-important and
indispensable ...
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Contents
Alerted to Prevent Sabotage | iii |
The Failure to Comprehend | iii |
An Important Man in an Important Post | iii |
Peculiar Complicated and Tense | iii |
Always Striving for Perfection | iii |
His Most Grievous Failure | iii |
The Last Critical Stages | iii |
It Is Inexplicable | iii |
He Had Supreme Responsibility | |
On Lines of National Policy | |
Looking in the Wrong Direction | |
ADVISERS PLANNERS AND CHIEFS | ii |
With Knives and Hatchets | ii |
Unsurmountable Obstacles | ii |
Crimination and Recrimination | ii |
To Help and Serve | ii |
Faults of Omission | ii |
Outside of Effective Contact | ii |
A Finger of Blame | ii |
Primarily a Failure of Men | ii |
The Pitfalls of Divided Responsibility | ii |
A Lack of Imagination | ii |
East Wind Rain | ii |
FIELD COMMANDERS AND OPERATORS | iii |
A Sentinel on Duty | iii |
THE VIEW FROM THE CROWS NEST | iv |
Blessed by the War God | v |
A Strategic Imbecility | xv |
A Mental Attitude | xxv |
In the Wake of the Pearl Harbor Disaster | xxxiv |
Remember Pearl Harbor | xliii |
Notes | liv |
Appendices | 46 |
The Pearl Harbor Investigations | 47 |
Japanese Proposals of November 20 1941 | 49 |
War Warning Messages of November 27 1941 | 50 |
Proposed Modus Vivendi | 51 |
Japans Bomb Plot Message | 54 |
The Hull Note of November 26 1941 | 55 |
Popov Questionnaire | 57 |
Selected Bibliography | 59 |
Index | 70 |
Image Gallery | 571 |
About the Authors | 598 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History |
| Authors | Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon |
| Publisher | Open Road Media, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1480489492, 9781480489493 |
| Length | 827 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Military / Naval History / Military / United States History / Military / World War II |
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