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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... received no word of what U.S. policy would be other than what was contained in the cited message . This he admitted was itself " a matter of hearsay . " He " never knew Brooke - Popham intimately enough to have received from him ...
... received no word of what U.S. policy would be other than what was contained in the cited message . This he admitted was itself " a matter of hearsay . " He " never knew Brooke - Popham intimately enough to have received from him ...
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... received an execute message . 33 One of those who denied any knowledge of a " winds execute ” having been received before December 7 was Lieutenant Com- mander George W. Linn , in December 1941 a Communications In- telligence watch ...
... received an execute message . 33 One of those who denied any knowledge of a " winds execute ” having been received before December 7 was Lieutenant Com- mander George W. Linn , in December 1941 a Communications In- telligence watch ...
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... received the " winds execute " on the evening of December 4 , whereas the times given in his notation are " 0500 thru 1300 ” -in civilian terms , 5:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Briggs also averred that Cheltenham had anticipated receiving word ...
... received the " winds execute " on the evening of December 4 , whereas the times given in his notation are " 0500 thru 1300 ” -in civilian terms , 5:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Briggs also averred that Cheltenham had anticipated receiving word ...
Contents
We Were All Out There | 3 |
Too Deeply to Bury Their Hate | 34 |
To Avoid War with Japan | 66 |
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