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(More customer reviews)If you're looking for the Navy version of Gen. Patton, you have found your man. Adm. Richardson actually had the guts to tell FDR to his face that the Navy leadership at this time has no confidence in the civilian leadership of this country. I can't think of many military officials at that level who would say how they felt regardless of the cost involved.
Half of this book deals with Naval Fleet data and navy protocol. Not exciting material, but some may enjoy it. The other half of this book is excellent. Adm. Richardson is ordered by FDR to move the Navy fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor. He believes it will be a temporary stay, but soon realizes the fleet is to be a "deterrent" to Japanese aggression. He is outraged because the fleet can not be defended and in his opinion the U.S. Navy at the time was non- existent in relation to the Japanese. He has numerous battles with Washington officials and ends up being removed from command.
This man was direct, honest, and didn't "pull any punches". He called it as he saw it. But he wasn't a "loose-lipped cannon either. After Pearl Harbor he could have come on the scene and flaunted what he had said about the disaster waiting to happen at Pearl Harbor. Instead he remained reticent, and maintained his loyalty to this country. It's men like this that made the United States a great country. Honest, forthright, genuine, lovers of the good, patriotic, sincere and brave. Men, lets return to being men again!
(..be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;) I Kings 2:2 KJV
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