Description

December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in Pearl Harbor. Depending on opposing viewpoints, the attack was either a brilliant maneuver of audacious strategy, or a piece of unparalleled villainy and deception by a supposedly friendly power. This revised edition, containing the latest research on the events of December 7, 1941, reveals several previously unknown aspects of the attack and dispels key myths that have been built up around the fateful day - a day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would "live in infamy".

Table of Contents

Introduction/Opposing Commanders/Chronology/The Japanese Plan/The First Wave/The Second Wave/Aftermath/Further Reading/Visiting Pearl Harbor/Appendices/Index

Product details

Published 25 Sep 2001
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781841763903
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 84 b/w; 25 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Campaign
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Carl Smith

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