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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... expected anything constructive to come from a conference so controversial that even a hint of it might have resulted in Konoye's murder . In December 1945 Konoye committed suicide , leaving behind hm an apologia in which , as The New ...
... expected anything constructive to come from a conference so controversial that even a hint of it might have resulted in Konoye's murder . In December 1945 Konoye committed suicide , leaving behind hm an apologia in which , as The New ...
Page 440
... expected . ... The Commander - in - Chief , Pacific Fleet , for definite and sound reasons and after making provision for such reconnaissance in case of emergency , specifically ordered that no routine long - range re- connaissance be ...
... expected . ... The Commander - in - Chief , Pacific Fleet , for definite and sound reasons and after making provision for such reconnaissance in case of emergency , specifically ordered that no routine long - range re- connaissance be ...
Page 443
... expected that upon receipt of the " war warning " Kimmel " would take dispositions to avoid surprise , so far as he could with what he had . " This would include " some air patrol . " In fact , when Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney ...
... expected that upon receipt of the " war warning " Kimmel " would take dispositions to avoid surprise , so far as he could with what he had . " This would include " some air patrol . " In fact , when Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney ...
Contents
We Were All Out There | 3 |
Too Deeply to Bury Their Hate | 34 |
To Avoid War with Japan | 66 |
Copyright | |
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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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