January 2013 | Pearl Harbor Date

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I stumbled across the original H/C version of this book at an antique dealer's shop. I was suprised by the title, I thought that Gore Vidal wrote the only book with that designation.Upon reading the dust jacket and introduction, I knew the book was for me, as the editor drops the name of Charles A. Beard...

Gestapo Chief : The 1948 Interrogation of Heinrich Muller Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is one of four books that have appeared since 1995 on the postwar association of former SS-Gruppenfuehrer Heinrich ("Gestapo"-)Mueller with the American Intelligence community. From the outset, it is well worth having by every scholar or educated laymen interested in the last phase of World War...

D-Day: A Day That Changed America: They Fought to Free Europe from Hitler's Tyranny Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If the first twenty minutes of Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" gives young students a graphic understanding of what it was like to storm the beaches at Normandy on June 6, 1944, then "D-Day: A Day That Changed America" will put the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe in perspective. After all,...

Uss Arizona: Warship, Tomb, Monument Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I would recommend this book to anybody that's into WWII. It's very informative and has some great pictures.Click Here to see more reviews about: Uss Arizona: Warship, Tomb, MonumentThe story of the USS Arizona encompasses far more than the milli-second BOOM! that split her hull and snuffed out the lives...

Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill-The Shocking Truth Revealed : How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pear Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There are few events that prompt as much spontaneous discussions regarding the possibility of conspiracy and guilty prior knowledge as those involving the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Indeed, there are a whole catalogue of titles dealing with the possibilities, the associated...

American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The authors of this important book argue that Senator Paul Wellstone's death, 10 days before the 2002 elections, was an assassination, most likely ordered by the Bush administration. Directly confronting the widespread tendency to reject all "conspiracy theories," the authors point out that "the idea...

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The surprise attack of September 11 brought about, in the eyes of many learned observers, a radical shift in American national security policy. Since World War II and up until the collapse of the Soviet Union there was a policy of containment and deterrence. During the 1990s, in the wake of the collapse,...

Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm's Way Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book ought to have been a significant contribution to the analysis of the War in the Pacific. Unfortunately, it is instead a step backwards. There are so many inaccuracies, unsupportable biases and wierd causalities proposed by the author that it strips all credibility away from what ought to have...

Weedflower Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Full-disclosure time. I did not like "Kira-Kira". I respected what author Cynthia Kadohata was trying to do and I understood where she was trying to take her book but I did not respect how she did it. So when a co-worker I trust handed me, "Weedflower" and said, "It's actually good", I eyed the title...

Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II (Bluejacket Books) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Jasper Holmes could have chosen as his title the phrase his colleague Edwin T. Layton used for his memoirs: And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway - Breaking the Secrets. As a USN reservist returned to active duty at Pearl Harbor just months before the attack, Holmes was there at the start of the war....

President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: Appearances and Realities Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a great and important book. It was not Beard's last book, but one that subjected him to a veritable witch hunt and his removal from his position in historical societies and organization. A progressive of the old LaFollette type, Beard simply sought to tell the truth about how Roosevelt plunged...

Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933-1941 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As the other reviewer has mentioned this book tries to show that the US not only knew of the impending attack by the Japanese but also pushed them in the direction leading up to the attack. Although the statement in the other reviewers comments about FDR planning the attack can be misleading it does...

The Encyclopedia of World War II Spies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Encyclopedia Of World War II Spies provides a lively A-Z encyclopedia of underground spies and traitors who contributed to either prolonging conflict or achieving victory during World War 2. From Pearl Harbor to battles in Germany, this includes both an in-depth biographical sketch of individuals and...

Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is interesting on two different levels. On one: it provides a great deal of information concerning World War II (WWII) as fought in the Pacific and as seen from the perspective of Japan's military leaders; I.e., what they were thinking, how they saw the war progressing, what their plans were,...

God Reveals The Identity Of The Beast Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A fascinating if not widely read book. The author claims to have been given a revelation by God that the USA is the "Beast" empire of Revelation 13 and Daniel 7. Here are some points Mr. Fraley makes in his book:* A "beast" by definition in the Bible is always a nation or empire, not a person. "The fourth...

Spy/counterspy;: The autobiography of Dusko Popov Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read this book in 1974 when I was 16. I thought it was a great spy novel, along with "Escape from Colditz". The title was apparently taken from "Point-Counterpoint". The author resided with his family in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia on the Dalmation coast of Croatia (AKA Adriatic Riviera and a favorite spot...

The Mastermind Behind Japan's Greatest Victory, Britain's Worst Defeat: The Capture of Singapore 1942 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Reference the excellent review by Glen Buchanan, "Why Japan fought the White Races of Asia in WWII?" ... which underscores Colonel Tsuji's claim that Japan went to war to "emancipate" the oppressed peoples of Asia. Tsuji further claims that "... Singapore was indeed the hinge of fate for the peoples...