Pearl Harbor by H P Willmott


ISBN
9780304358847
Published
Released
01 / 05 / 2006
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
208
Dimensions
257 x 257 x 23mm

In December 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US naval base in Hawaii. Three hundred and sixty planes of Admiral Nagumo's fleet set out for Oahu island where they caught the US Pacific fleet moored in Pearl Harbor. Of the 8 battleships present, 3 were sunk, another capsized and the remainder seriously damaged. Three light cruisers, 3 destroyers and other vessels were also sunk or seriously damaged. Of the 500 US planes present only 220 were reparable.

By all rights, US forces should have expected the attack - the breaking of the Japanese codes had provided them with ample intelligence saying the attack was imminent. Their failure to do so resulted in one of the greatest disasters in US military history, and a shocking introduction to the war.

This book, by acclaimed historian H P Willmott, is a brand new look at this historic battle. It is about the complex processes which lead to war and the equally complex processes by which war is both planed and waged. Above all, though, it points to an unavoidable irony: that the day of the Imperial Navy's great victory was in fact the day which signalled her own and Japan's eventual and utter defeat.
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