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(More customer reviews)This is a valuable, concise look at Pearl Harbor. Author A. J. Barker shows the preparations, naval capabilities, strategies and tactics in describing this attack. Readers learn why Japan chose this foolhardy course - which they capably executed on Dec. 7, 1941. We also learn why the U.S. navy was caught napping - despite warnings from having sunk a Japanese mini-sub hours before the assault, plus U.S. radar picking up the approaching attack aircraft. Barker also shows the battle in its tragic detail, from the sinking of the Arizona (with high casualties), to the near-destruction of U.S. airfields, to the absence of the U.S. Carrier fleet. The author avoids the questionable conspiracy theories that President Roosevelt knew this attack was coming (Roosevelt did suspect Japan would strike in Southeast Asia), but we see how one naval officer predicted Japan's attack at Pearl Harbor for Nov. 30 - one week early.
This is one of the many Ballantine Series that provides superb photos, informative illustrations, and solid analysis of the major battles and campaigns of World War II.
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