Countdown to Pearl Harbor : the twelve days to the attack

Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chronicles the 12 days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy,"--NoveList.

Record details

ISBN: 9781476776460 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1476776466 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781476776484 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1476776482 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781476776507
Physical Description: print
xiv, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-353) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface: the boys at Opana -- An end, a beginning -- Hitokappu's secret -- The Admiral Chief of the Pacific Fleet -- Betty -- It doesn't mean us -- Machine gun short -- Ambassador Joe and President Frank -- Their mail, opened and read -- The talents of Nippon -- The ships that were not there -- The smoke of secrets -- A time to look -- Out of their depth -- Your Majesty -- Dinner at the Halekulani -- From the vacant sea.