The Pearl Harbor Myth

Zusammenfassung Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so! why did he withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers are embedded in the cogent analysis of The Pearl Harbor Myth. Informationen zum Autor George Victor is the author of Hitler: The Pathology of Evil (Brassey's! Inc.! 1998)! which Library Journal called "fascinating and extremely lucid" and Choice cited as "highly recommended." He lives in West Orange! New Jersey. Klappentext Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so! why did he withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers are embedded in the cogent analysis of The Pearl Harbor Myth. Based on voluminous data that does not appear in other books on the topic! it discusses in detail Roosevelt's developing strategy-both military and diplomatic-and his secret alliances to save the world from Hitler. It contains a wealth of fresh material on secret diplomacy; on secret military strategy! planning! and intelligence; and on disguised combat operations that began six months before the Pearl Harbor attack. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE; Birth of a Myth; Establishing the Myth; Warnings of the Pearl Harbor Attack; Challenges to the Myth; Secrecy and Cover-Up; The Accused; Background to War between Japan and the United States; Japan's Moves to Dominate East Asia; Roosevelt's Tentative Moves against Germany; Secret Alliance and Undeclared War; Countdown in Washington: the July Turning Point; Countdown in Tokyo; Countdown in Washington: the November Turning Point; Awaiting the Blow; Afterword: History and the Unthinkable; NOTES; REFERENCES; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

Auteur

George Victor is the author of Hitler: The Pathology of Evil (Brassey's, Inc., 1998), which Library Journal called "fascinating and extremely lucid" and Choice cited as "highly recommended." He lives in West Orange, New Jersey.

Contenu
PREFACE; Birth of a Myth; Establishing the Myth; Warnings of the Pearl Harbor Attack; Challenges to the Myth; Secrecy and Cover-Up; The Accused; Background to War between Japan and the United States; Japan's Moves to Dominate East Asia; Roosevelt's Tentative Moves against Germany; Secret Alliance and Undeclared War; Countdown in Washington: the July Turning Point; Countdown in Tokyo; Countdown in Washington: the November Turning Point; Awaiting the Blow; Afterword: History and the Unthinkable; NOTES; REFERENCES; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.