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An eye-opening investigation into the errors that led to the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor refutes the myth of a conspiracy to withhold intelligence to force a Pacific war and argues that Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the man who took the fall for the tragedy, was not responsible for the military disaster. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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A groundbreaking and authoritative reappraisal that rewrites the pivotal event that thrust an isolationist nation into war, "a must-read for any student of World War II" (Tom Bowmen, Baltimore Sun ) For sixty years, myths about Pearl Harbor have proliferated. After six years of intense research, naval historian Michael Gannon has finally separated fact from fiction to re-create the dramatic events surrounding that fateful December morning. Drawing on largely untapped U.S. and Japanese primary sources-including overlooked or unknown military orders, code intercepts, aide memoirs, eyewitness interviews, and private correspondence-the author builds a stunning narrative that penetrates a smokescreen of cover-ups, top-level military misdirections, and faulty diplomatic decisions. In Pearl Harbor Betrayed , Gannon has accomplished what heretofore seemed impossible: he has set the record straight about the most exhaustively examined and debated event in our entire history.
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