Kimmel Short and Pearl Harbor: The Final Report Revealed, Borch Fred L., Martinez Daniel

Автор: History Hourly
Название: World War II Pearl Harbor: A History from Beginning to End
ISBN: 1718810334 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781718810334
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Описание: World War II Pearl HarborPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt described December 7, 1941, the date when the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the United States while the two countries were still officially at peace, as a day that would live in infamy. The action hurled the United States into the global conflict of World War II, a violent conflagration that the nation, fiercely isolationist, had intended to ignore. But the rising tide of militarism across the globe meant that American neutrality could not last. War was contagious, and sooner or later, no matter how a nation tried to quarantine itself, the infection would find it. To the people of the United States, the attack came as a complete surprise. Perhaps Americans should have expected it. Tensions between the U.S. and Japan had been steadily increasing throughout the year, and American sanctions against Japan were hindering the efforts of the Japanese to become the dominant power in the Pacific.

Inside you will read about...✓ America Opens the Door to Japan
✓ Pearl Harbor, Home of the Shark Goddess
✓ Air Raid Pearl Harbor, This Is No Drill
✓ The Commanders
✓ The Story of a Survivor
And much more

Ironically, a mock naval exercise the decade before the Pearl Harbor attack had foreshadowed the penalty of ignoring the base's vulnerability, but the naval higher-ups refused to believe it, setting the stage for the real attack in 1941. The commander of Pearl Harbor, Admiral Kimmel, was convinced that the attack would be made against Wake Island. But Japanese Admiral Yamamoto's shrewd planning was as devastating as he intended it to be, as America's Pacific base lay in ruins-over 2,403 dead, 1,178 wounded, and the fleet devastated. Yet, the day after the attack, while Japan rejoiced, Yamamoto was despondent. Japan, he knew, could not win a long, drawn-out war. The Americans would be out for revenge.

Автор: Salecker Gene E.
Название: The Second Pearl Harbor: The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944
ISBN: 0806161922 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806161921
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In May 1944, with American forces closing in on the Japanese mainland, the Fifth Fleet Amphibious Force was preparing to invade Saipan. Control of this island would put enemy cities squarely within range of the B-29 bomber. The navy had assembled a fleet of landing ship tanks (LSTs) in the West Loch section of Pearl Harbor. On May 21, an explosion tore through the calm afternoon sky, spreading fire and chaos through the ordnance-packed vessels. When the fires had been brought under control, six LSTs had been lost, many others were badly damaged, and more than 500 military personnel had been killed or injured. To ensure the success of those still able to depart for the invasion - miraculously, only one day late - the navy at once issued a censorship order, which has kept this disaster from public scrutiny for seventy years.The Second Pearl Harbor is the first book to tell the full story of what happened on that fateful day. Military historian Gene Salecker recounts the events and conditions leading up to the explosion, then re-creates the drama directly afterward: men swimming through flaming oil, small craft desperately trying to rescue the injured, and subsequent explosions throwing flaming debris everywhere. With meticulous attention to detail the author explains why he and other historians believe that the official explanation for the cause of the explosion, that a mortar shell was accidentally detonated, is wrong.This in-depth account of a little-known incident adds to our understanding of the dangers during World War II, even far from the front, and restores a missing chapter to history.

Автор: Brady Usn Capt Allen Colby
Название: Witnessing the American Century: Via Berlin, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, and the Straits of Florida
ISBN: 1606353624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781606353622
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The firsthand account of Captain Brady, a US Naval aviator who participated in some of the world`s most significant events from the twentieth century, including the Great Depression, Pearl Harbour, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Korean War.

Автор: McWilliams Bill
Название: Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute
ISBN: 1497638828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781497638822
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Цена: 36770.00 T
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Описание: Using long-established historical records and contemporary journals, as well as recently released wartime documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day That Will Live in Infamy. Told from the points of view of dozens of characters, from generals and admirals and politicians and diplomats down to deckhands and private soldiers and innocent civilians at all levels, this panoramic overview of one of the most traumatizing and shocking events in American history puts the reader in a position to understand the big picture of strategy and tactics, as well as the intimate details of what the chaos, violence, and presence of death felt like to people immersed in the surprise of an armed attack on American soil. December 7, 1941, was a turning point in the history of the United States, which had been teetering on a decision between isolationism and intervention. One might argue that every US military engagement since then has been affected by what happened when America learned that it could not stand by and watch war among strangers without potentially becoming involved-whether we wished to or not. Bill McWilliams was born in Brownsville, Texas, was raised in small towns in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, and received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from the third congressional district of Colorado. He graduated with a bachelor of science degree and earned a master of science in business administration from the George Washington University while attending the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He later attended the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, where he completed ten months of senior management training. His air force service included work as a flight and classroom instructor in undergraduate pilot and fighter training; a seven-month combat tour in the Republic of Vietnam, where he flew one hundred twenty-eight fighter-bomber close-support and interdiction missions; and posts at the United States Air Force Academy as commanding and flight instructor for cadets receiving familiarization training in light aircraft. Later he served in the Republic of Korea for two years, and at the Air Force Tactical Fighter Weapons Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. After leaving the Air Force he served more than eight years in systems engineering and management positions in the aerospace industry. McWilliams's writing includes two Korean War histories-A Return to Glory: The Untold Story of Honor, Dishonor, and Triumph at the United States Military Academy, 1950-53 and On Hallowed Ground: The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill-plus numerous articles, including series in newspapers and magazines. The ESPN made-for-television movie Code Breakers, which premiered in December 2005, was based on McWilliams's first book.

Автор: Deignan Donald D.
Название: The Shadow of Sacrifice: The True Story of a Pearl Harbor Survivor and His Nephew and Namesake
ISBN: 1478781572 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478781578
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Цена: 47760.00 T
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Описание: Felix Martin awakes to what he has been waiting for all his life: for civilization to finally meet its destiny. A massive explosion in the west by what, no one knows. Multiple presumed nuclear attacks in almost every major city. An airborne zootoxic infection that has manipulated the very genetic physiology and physical characteristics of the infected. And an entire country experiencing true freedom for once in its existence. Felix navigates the ash-covered and quiet remnants of the United States, coming across friends and survivors along the way and derailing his futile attempts to find out for himself his fiancee`s disposition. To find out what happened to her. However, the universe has other plans. Gangs and false flags, the true evil of what a human being can do to another, are all distractions as he fights onward. Catching the attention of those responsible for the infection further guides him down a dark path. In his travels, he finds that what is coming is far greater than reality, ending up in Fort Monroe, Virginia, where all that remains is gathering just outside that old fort`s walls. He slowly lets himself ride that spiral as far as it goes, down into that maddening dark place only the fallen know. With secrets all about him and a new fascist remnant of the old government on the rise, he merely smears his face with a jagged grin all the while being chased by the queen of the feral and something far older than even the light. The Black Dog watches as Felix slowly loses himself when he finds out he is no longer just a man. He leaves his humanity behind because after all, monsters deserve to kill monsters. Regardless the trial or adversary, it wasn`t his world that ended.

Автор: Deignan Donald D.
Название: The Shadow of Sacrifice: The True Story of a Pearl Harbor Survivor and His Nephew and Namesake
ISBN: 1478778407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478778400
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Цена: 27040.00 T
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Описание: Felix Martin awakes to what he has been waiting for all his life: for civilization to finally meet its destiny. A massive explosion in the west by what, no one knows. Multiple presumed nuclear attacks in almost every major city. An airborne zootoxic infection that has manipulated the very genetic physiology and physical characteristics of the infected. And an entire country experiencing true freedom for once in its existence. Felix navigates the ash-covered and quiet remnants of the United States, coming across friends and survivors along the way and derailing his futile attempts to find out for himself his fiancee`s disposition. To find out what happened to her. However, the universe has other plans. Gangs and false flags, the true evil of what a human being can do to another, are all distractions as he fights onward. Catching the attention of those responsible for the infection further guides him down a dark path. In his travels, he finds that what is coming is far greater than reality, ending up in Fort Monroe, Virginia, where all that remains is gathering just outside that old fort`s walls. He slowly lets himself ride that spiral as far as it goes, down into that maddening dark place only the fallen know. With secrets all about him and a new fascist remnant of the old government on the rise, he merely smears his face with a jagged grin all the while being chased by the queen of the feral and something far older than even the light. The Black Dog watches as Felix slowly loses himself when he finds out he is no longer just a man. He leaves his humanity behind because after all, monsters deserve to kill monsters. Regardless the trial or adversary, it wasn`t his world that ended.

Автор: Tucker Spencer C.
Название: Pearl Harbor: The Essential Reference Guide
ISBN: 144083718X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440837180
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Цена: 83160.00 T
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Описание: This book provides students with an understanding of the motives behind the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the consequences of this action on Japan, on the United States, and on the outcome of World War II.

Автор: Robert W. Love Jr
Название: Pearl Harbor Revisited
ISBN: 0312095937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312095932
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: In one stroke, the Japanese offensive brought together the war in Europe between Britain and Russia on the one hand and Germany on the other with the ongoing conflict between Japan and China, turning it into the global struggle between two great coalitions we know as the Second World War.

Автор: Saki Dockrill
Название: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
ISBN: 1349231312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349231317
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Описание: List of Maps - Acknowledgements - Preface; D.C.Watt - Contributors - Introduction; S.Dockrill - PART 1: THE ROAD TO PEARL HARBOR - Anglo-Japanese Alienation Revisited; I.Nish - Winston Churchill, the Military, and the Defence of the British Empire in Asia; J.Pritchard - Admiral's Yamamoto's Surprise Attack and the Japanese Navy's War Strategy; I.Hata - PART 2: CONFLICTS IN THE PACIFIC - American Seizure of Japan's Strategic Points: Summer 1942-44; R.Spector - US Army Codebreakers and the War against Japan; E.Drea - PART 3: CONFLICTS IN ASIA - Burma: the Longest War: 1941-45; L.Allen & D.Steeds - Thailand, Japanese Pan-Asianism and the greater East Asia Co-Presperity Sphere; N.Brailey - The China Theatre and the Pacific War; W.Tao - PART 4: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DURING THE WAR - The German-Japanese Alliance in the Second World War; B.Martin - Britain, the Commonwealth and Pacific Security; P.Lowe - PART 5: TERMINATION OF THE WAR IN AUGUST 1945 - Hiroshima: a Strategy of Shock; L.Freedman & S.Dockrill - PART 6: CONCLUSIONS - The Legacy of 'the Pacific War' seen from Europe; S.Dockrill - Select Bibliography - Index

Автор: Feis, Herbert
Название: Road to pearl harbor
ISBN: 0691647364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691647364
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Описание:

This is a probing narrative of the history which came to its climax at Pearl harbor; an account of the attitudes and actions, of the purposes and persons which brought about the war between the United States and Japan.

It is full and impartial. Though written as an independent and private study, records and information of an exceptional range and kind were used in its making. These give it authority. They include all the pertinent State Department papers; the American official military records in preparation; selections from the Roosevelt papers at Hyde Park; the full private diaries of Stimons, Morgenthau, and Grew; the file of the intercepted "Magic" cables; and equivalent collections of official and private Japanese records. The author was at the time in the State Department (as Adviser on International Economic Affairs) and thus in close touch with the men and matters of which he writes.

In telling how this war came about, this book tells much of how other wars happen. For it is a close study of the ways in which officials, diplomats, and soldiers think and act; of the environment of decision, of the ambitions of nations, of the clash of their ideas, of the way sin which fear and mistrust affect events, and of the struggle for time and advantage.

The narrative follows events in a double mirror of which one side is Washington and the other Tokyo, and synchronizes the images. Thus it traces the ways in which the acts and decisions of this country influenced Japan and vice versa.

Originally published in 1950.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Автор: Johns Jim
Название: Reassessing Pearl Harbor
ISBN: 1476668272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476668277
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Following Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short were relieved of their commands. This book re-examines the circumstances surrounding Pearl Harbor to ask if Kimmel and Short were incompetent officers or convenient scapegoats; and was the attack really the surprise the Roosevelt administration led Americans to believe?

Автор: Saki Dockrill
Название: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
ISBN: 0333577221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333577226
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Описание: An interpretation of World War II in Asia and the Pacific from an international perspective, this book has converted the proceedings of an international conference at London into an account of the Pacific War, with contributions from various historians.