Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of HistoryThe provocative sequel to At Dawn We Slept that continues Prange's masterful analysis of the attack on Pearl Harbor, delving further to examine the underlying causes and to ask whether the event that plunged America into World War II was really a surprise to President Roosevelt. |
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... Navy were turned loose they could clean up the North Atlantic situation in thirty days . " By autumn he had to admit " that his Navy was up against it in the Atlantic and had been a bit too brash in their over - confidence that they ...
... Navy were turned loose they could clean up the North Atlantic situation in thirty days . " By autumn he had to admit " that his Navy was up against it in the Atlantic and had been a bit too brash in their over - confidence that they ...
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... Navy Claude Swanson had spent all of 1936 in a naval hospital and was virtually invalided from a stroke . When his assistant secretary died in early 1936 , Roosevelt appointed no suc- cessor . Admiral William H. Standley , destined to ...
... Navy Claude Swanson had spent all of 1936 in a naval hospital and was virtually invalided from a stroke . When his assistant secretary died in early 1936 , Roosevelt appointed no suc- cessor . Admiral William H. Standley , destined to ...
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... Navy was doing the scouting , and that from the Navy we would get our information , should the enemy approach . " 54 Just how completely the Hawaiian Department and the Hawaiian Air Force leaned on the Navy is revealed in this exchange ...
... Navy was doing the scouting , and that from the Navy we would get our information , should the enemy approach . " 54 Just how completely the Hawaiian Department and the Hawaiian Air Force leaned on the Navy is revealed in this exchange ...
Contents
We Were All Out There | 3 |
Too Deeply to Bury Their Hate | 34 |
To Avoid War with Japan | 66 |
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Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History Gordon W. Prange,Donald M. Goldstein,Katherine V. Dillon Limited preview - 2014 |
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