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 207
... question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to make sure that Japan was put into the wrong and made the first bad move - overt move . 56 On November 6 , Stimson recorded that Roosevelt " was trying to think of something which ...
... question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to make sure that Japan was put into the wrong and made the first bad move - overt move . 56 On November 6 , Stimson recorded that Roosevelt " was trying to think of something which ...
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... questions , speculations at their fingertips . They could not re- member that for others Pearl Harbor was not the most important , absorbing question in the world . To a certain extent , Kimmel and Short were in this position . Pearl ...
... questions , speculations at their fingertips . They could not re- member that for others Pearl Harbor was not the most important , absorbing question in the world . To a certain extent , Kimmel and Short were in this position . Pearl ...
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... question : If the true " winds execute ” had come in twelve hours before , why were the services still monitoring for it ? At the completion of his testimony to Hewitt , Safford somewhat brashly asked him off the record if there was ...
... question : If the true " winds execute ” had come in twelve hours before , why were the services still monitoring for it ? At the completion of his testimony to Hewitt , Safford somewhat brashly asked him off the record if there was ...
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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