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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Page 108
... Pacific Fleet wherever in American waters he thought best for the nation's good . If that disposition involved an element of danger , such was the nature of the Navy's business . The Pacific Fleet did not exist to be safe ; it existed ...
... Pacific Fleet wherever in American waters he thought best for the nation's good . If that disposition involved an element of danger , such was the nature of the Navy's business . The Pacific Fleet did not exist to be safe ; it existed ...
Page 109
... Pacific Fleet would go to the rescue of the Philippines or resist Japanese naval forces attacking the Philippines . The Pacific Fleet was so inferior to the Japanese Navy in every category of fighting ship that such a mission was ...
... Pacific Fleet would go to the rescue of the Philippines or resist Japanese naval forces attacking the Philippines . The Pacific Fleet was so inferior to the Japanese Navy in every category of fighting ship that such a mission was ...
Page 119
... Pacific Fleet became proportionately less and less a " deterrent . " For this reason , Kimmel's ships might have been better employed against the number one enemy in the Atlantic . Perhaps more thought should have been devoted to the ...
... Pacific Fleet became proportionately less and less a " deterrent . " For this reason , Kimmel's ships might have been better employed against the number one enemy in the Atlantic . Perhaps more thought should have been devoted to the ...
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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