Infamy: Pearl Harbor And Its Aftermath
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chips along edges and spine. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into the Second World War — but John Toland's Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath argues that the true scandal was not merely the attack itself, but what the American government knew, concealed, and sacrificed in the hours, days, and years that followed. Drawing on exhaustive research, newly declassified documents, and interviews with surviving witnesses, Toland constructs a meticulous and damning account of institutional failure, political manipulation, and deliberate cover-up at the highest levels of the U.S. military and government. Toland, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian renowned for his narrative precision and unflinching objectivity, presents a work that permanently reshaped public understanding of one of America's most defining moments. His prose is authoritative yet accessible, balancing the weight of documentary evidence with the urgency of a thriller — leaving the reader to grapple with a deeply unsettling question: were the men who died at Pearl Harbor betrayed not by an enemy abroad, but by their own leaders at home?
Author: John Toland
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Methuen
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chips along edges and spine. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into the Second World War — but John Toland's Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath argues that the true scandal was not merely the attack itself, but what the American government knew, concealed, and sacrificed in the hours, days, and years that followed. Drawing on exhaustive research, newly declassified documents, and interviews with surviving witnesses, Toland constructs a meticulous and damning account of institutional failure, political manipulation, and deliberate cover-up at the highest levels of the U.S. military and government. Toland, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian renowned for his narrative precision and unflinching objectivity, presents a work that permanently reshaped public understanding of one of America's most defining moments. His prose is authoritative yet accessible, balancing the weight of documentary evidence with the urgency of a thriller — leaving the reader to grapple with a deeply unsettling question: were the men who died at Pearl Harbor betrayed not by an enemy abroad, but by their own leaders at home?