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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... reason is the irrational but undeniable glamour of defeat. Americans like to win, but they remember and sympathize with their losers. There is no Northern counterpart of Gone with the Wind. Another factor that keeps Pearl Harbor a ...
... reason is the irrational but undeniable glamour of defeat. Americans like to win, but they remember and sympathize with their losers. There is no Northern counterpart of Gone with the Wind. Another factor that keeps Pearl Harbor a ...
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... reason , and weaken the will to the point where physical defense became meaningless . Most isolationists were patriotic Americans , and they were not all of one stamp . As Wayne S. Cole stated in his admirable study , America First ...
... reason , and weaken the will to the point where physical defense became meaningless . Most isolationists were patriotic Americans , and they were not all of one stamp . As Wayne S. Cole stated in his admirable study , America First ...
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... reason : They were in the minority . They raised their voices loud and long - reasonable voices , foolish voices , respected voices , despised voices , voices to be agreed with or argued with - but they were only voices . Power lay with ...
... reason : They were in the minority . They raised their voices loud and long - reasonable voices , foolish voices , respected voices , despised voices , voices to be agreed with or argued with - but they were only voices . Power lay with ...
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... reason the policy lasted so long may have been ignorance of and indifference to what was going on in Asia . For if anything jumps off the pages of the Congressional Record for 1941 it is the almost total absence of debate or comment ...
... reason the policy lasted so long may have been ignorance of and indifference to what was going on in Asia . For if anything jumps off the pages of the Congressional Record for 1941 it is the almost total absence of debate or comment ...
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... reason that they could not bring along with them the air arm with which to protect their fleet . ” 54 Thus Wiley furthered the delusion that the U.S. Navy would fight off any Japanese attack force far out in the Pacific before it could ...
... reason that they could not bring along with them the air arm with which to protect their fleet . ” 54 Thus Wiley furthered the delusion that the U.S. Navy would fight off any Japanese attack force far out in the Pacific before it could ...
Contents
Alerted to Prevent Sabotage | |
The Failure to Comprehend | |
An Important Man in an Important Post | |
Peculiar Complicated and Tense | |
Always Striving for Perfection | |
His Most Grievous Failure | |
The Last Critical Stages | |
It Is Inexplicable | |
He Had Supreme Responsibility | |
On Lines of National Policy | |
Looking in the Wrong Direction | |
ADVISERS PLANNERS AND CHIEFS | |
With Knives and Hatchets | |
Unsurmountable Obstacles | |
Crimination and Recrimination | |
To Help and Serve | |
Faults of Omission | |
Outside of Effective Contact | |
A Finger of Blame | |
Primarily a Failure of Men | |
The Pitfalls of Divided Responsibility | |
A Lack of Imagination | |
East Wind Rain | |
CONTENTS | |
FIELD COMMANDERS AND OPERATORS | |
A Sentinel on Duty | |
THE VIEW FROM THE CROWS NEST | |
Blessed by the War God | |
A Strategic Imbecility | |
A Mental Attitude | |
In the Wake of the Pearl Harbor Disaster | |
Remember Pearl Harbor | |
Image Gallery | |
Notes | |
Appendices | |
The Pearl Harbor Investigations | |
Japanese Proposals of November 20 1941 | |
War Warning Messages of November 27 1941 | |
Proposed Modus Vivendi | |
Japans Bomb Plot Message | |
The Hull Note of November 26 1941 | |
Popov Questionnaire | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Index | |
About the Authors | |
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