The Final Secret Of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Contribution To The Japanese Attack
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor shattered American complacency and thrust the United States into the Second World War — but Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald argues that the catastrophe was no surprise to those at the highest levels of Washington's command. The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor presents a meticulously reasoned and unflinching case that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his key military advisors deliberately withheld critical intelligence from the commanders in Hawaii, engineering a scenario that would draw an isolationist nation into global conflict. Drawing on his own firsthand naval experience and a careful reading of the congressional investigations that followed, Theobald constructs a damning indictment of wartime political strategy at the expense of American lives. Corroborated by forewords from Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, this work stands as one of the most provocative revisionist accounts of American entry into World War II. Theobald writes with the precision and authority of a career naval officer, stripping away decades of official narrative to reveal what he contends is the true calculus behind a national tragedy. Whether one accepts his conclusions or contests them, The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor remains an essential and deeply unsettling document in the ongoing debate over who truly bears responsibility for the deadliest attack ever launched on American soil — and what Washington knew before the bombs fell.
Author: Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, U.S.N., Ret.
Format: Paperback
Published: 1987, The Devin-Adair Company
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor shattered American complacency and thrust the United States into the Second World War — but Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald argues that the catastrophe was no surprise to those at the highest levels of Washington's command. The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor presents a meticulously reasoned and unflinching case that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his key military advisors deliberately withheld critical intelligence from the commanders in Hawaii, engineering a scenario that would draw an isolationist nation into global conflict. Drawing on his own firsthand naval experience and a careful reading of the congressional investigations that followed, Theobald constructs a damning indictment of wartime political strategy at the expense of American lives. Corroborated by forewords from Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, this work stands as one of the most provocative revisionist accounts of American entry into World War II. Theobald writes with the precision and authority of a career naval officer, stripping away decades of official narrative to reveal what he contends is the true calculus behind a national tragedy. Whether one accepts his conclusions or contests them, The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor remains an essential and deeply unsettling document in the ongoing debate over who truly bears responsibility for the deadliest attack ever launched on American soil — and what Washington knew before the bombs fell.