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 416
... seemed least likely to go down in history identified with failure , the name of Husband E. Kimmel would have stood near the top of the list of candidates . This was a man to inspire confidence - experienced , forceful , dedi- cated ...
... seemed least likely to go down in history identified with failure , the name of Husband E. Kimmel would have stood near the top of the list of candidates . This was a man to inspire confidence - experienced , forceful , dedi- cated ...
Page 471
... seemed incredible to Sayre that this could have happened seven or eight hours after word about Pearl Harbor had reached the Philippines . On this first day of the war , therefore , through the tragic blunder of failure to attack we were ...
... seemed incredible to Sayre that this could have happened seven or eight hours after word about Pearl Harbor had reached the Philippines . On this first day of the war , therefore , through the tragic blunder of failure to attack we were ...
Page 521
... seemed to have been totally un- expected , to judge from some of the ex post facto testimony . Its army already bogged down for years in the endless , bottomless morass of China , yet obviously intent upon wholesale conquest in ...
... seemed to have been totally un- expected , to judge from some of the ex post facto testimony . Its army already bogged down for years in the endless , bottomless morass of China , yet obviously intent upon wholesale conquest in ...
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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