Pearl Harbor Declassified

Download or read book Pearl Harbor Declassified written by James M. D’Angelo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did President Roosevelt and other high-ranking U.S. government officials know about Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbor, and fail to warn U.S. Navy leadership? Drawing on recently declassified materials and revelations from other writers, this book traces the flow of intelligence and concludes the imminent attack was allowed to happen to win the support of the American public in a war against Japan. An epilogue describes the fate of Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the intelligence he received from Washington before the attack, and the intelligence he did not.