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Pearl Harbor Betrayed: The True Story of a Man and a Nation under Attack Hardcover – September 10, 2001

by Michael Gannon (Author)

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A naval historian draws on newly revealed primary documents to shed light on the tragic errors that led to the devastating attack, Washington's role, and the man who took the fall for the Japanese tactical victory

Michael Gannon begins his authoritative account of the "impossible to forget" attack with the essential background story of Japan's imperialist mission and the United States' uncertain responses-especially two lost chances of delaying the inevitable attack until the military was prepared to defend Pearl Harbor.
Gannon disproves two Pearl Harbor legends: first, that there was a conspiracy to withold intelligence from the Pacific Commander in order to force a Pacific war, and second, that Admiral Kimmel was informed but failed to act. Instead, Gannon points to two critical factors ignored by others: that information about the attack gleaned from the "Magic" code intercepts was not sent to Admiral Kimmel, and that there was no possibility that Kimmel could have defended Pearl Harbor because the Japanese were militarily far superior to the American forces in December of 1941.

Gannon has divided the story into three parts: the background, eyewitness accounts of the stunning Japanese tactical victory, and the aftermath, which focuses on the Commander, who was blamed for the biggest military disaster in American history.

Pearl Harbor Betrayed will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

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Gannon, author of two excellent books on the Battle of the Atlantic, jumps onto the 50th-anniversary bandwagon with this effort to demonstrate that base Admiral Husband A. Kimmel was made a scapegoat for his military and political superiors. The thrust of Gannon's argument is that President Roosevelt, and the entire defense establishment, were so focused on the prospects of war with Germany that the deterioration of U.S. relations with Japan went relatively unnoticed. Gannon describes Japan's decision to go to war as not forced by U.S. behavior but made in a rational calculation of Japan's vital interests. He wraps his package by presenting what he considers U.S. intelligence's failure to convey appropriate warning to Pearl Harbor in the final weeks and days before Japan's blow struck. The arguments, however, develop a reverse effect. If, as Gannon also convincingly demonstrates, the inevitability of war with Japan was understood at all senior command levels in Hawaii, it is difficult to see how more emphatic and direct communications from Washington would have produced different behavior patterns. Gannon's portrait of Kimmel in particular establishes him as more or less a peacetime admiral suddenly out of his depth when confronted with a wartime situation. Illustrations (40 in b&w) not seen by PW. (Sept. 10)Forecast: Buffs and scholars may take this one up for argument's sake, but it will change few minds. And few consumers browsing Dec. 7 display tables will be worrying over the blame assignment.

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For the last 60 years, historians have been trying to assign blame for the disaster of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. A few revisionist historians have even gone so far as to state that Roosevelt was responsible, as he wanted to involve the United States in the war (e.g., Robert Stinnett in Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, LJ 11/15/99). This is hard to take seriously. While Roosevelt knew that the war was coming, he wanted to fight Germany, not Japan, and it is not credible that he would have allowed his Pacific fleet to be ravaged. Naval historian Gannon, after extensive research, has succeeded in re-creating the dramatic events so that they can be understood by a careful reader. He describes how American na?vet?, arrogance, confusion, and an unwillingness to accept reality resulted in the loss of 2,323 men at Pearl Harbor. Drawing on primary sources, the author has painted a narrative that attacks the cover-ups and faulty decisions of the army, navy, and State Department. Gannon states unequivocally that Gen. Short and Adm. Husband E. Kimmel were unjustly made scapegoats and court-martialed. He argues that a good deal of the blame should be assigned to the failure of U.S. Intelligence to evaluate Japanese intentions correctly. This book is well written but presents little that is new. For libraries with large World War II collections. Stanley L. Itkin, Hillside P.L., New Hyde Park, NY
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.; 1st edition (September 10, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805066985
ISBN-13: 978-0805066982
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.2 x 9.8 inches
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Michael Gannon and the Development of Pearl Harbor "Revisorism"

ByFrank P. Mintzon February 19, 2015

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This is a thorough presentation of what might be called the "revisor" interpretation of U.S.-Japan war origins that probably originated with "And I was There," Richard T. Layton's posthumous memoir (1985). This approach, whether "conspiracist" or not, is critical of the Roosevelt Administration, to include key military figures in Washington, but is not particularly critical of the general foreign policy aims and even moves toward war (particularly against Germany) of FDR supported by key figures. The latter, more critical "school"--if that is a fair designation--was embodied in the work of Harry Elmer Barnes, George Morgenstern, Charles Beard, Frederick Sanborn, and Percy Greaves. Generally, it is conspiracist, although not all revisionists were completely convinced that Roosevelt knew in advance about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor. It has numerous adherents today although writers adhering to this point of view are not viewed favorably by so-called mainstream historians even when the former are cautious and erudite. The upshot today is that not all conspiracists are revisionists--thus, Robert Stinnett and Barnes saw a definite "plot" and might at first glance have many points in common, but Stinnett is sympathetic to FDR and his bringing about the intervention of the U.S. against Hitler through a spectacular attack on a U.S. territory and fleet base by Japan that overcame isolationist opposition to American participation in a second World War and (most important) elicited Hitler's declaration of war on the United States on December 11, 1941.

Gannon is not in sympathy with Stinnett's position and would be opposed to Barnes et al, and instead focuses his "revisorship" on those who would try to transfer most of the blame for the relative success of the attack primarily to Admiral Kimmel and General Short at Pearl Harbor. His approach is essentially military and carefully exculpates the "Hawaiian commanders" via a meticulous enumeration of deficiencies in provision of pertinent intelligence, concise/clear war warnings, manpower, and truly effective and modern anti-aircraft systems (e.g., automatic "ack-ack" guns like Bofors or the type later common on U.S. vessels--including those ships transferred out of Pearl Harbor to aid the Atlantic Theater). This overall commitment to military revisorship has notable deficiencies from the standpoint of understanding the roots of the Japanese encroachments in Asia and the gravity of FDR's predicament when faced with the consequences of his actions by late 1941 and his promises in the 1940 presidential campaign to keep American youth out of foreign wars. The reader will look in vain for any reference to Kemp Tolley and Roosevelt's 11th-hour attempt to order him to organize and sally forth on a "defensive information patrol" into the midst of Japanese convoys streaming south to the Philippines, Malaya, and the Netherlands East Indies. In this sense, the Layton book was superior in coverage to Gannon's although no revisor, whether military oriented or not, can (to date) match the breadth of a Charles Callan Tansill in Back Door to War, or provide the background to the war in the Pacific that he offers.

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The truth about Pearl Harbor 1; half-baked conspiracy theories 0

ByRoboRoy 9000on November 8, 2015

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This book refutes numerous Pearl Harbor conspiracy theories including the half-baked and poorly researched "Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II" by James Rusbridger and Eric Nave (New York: Summit Books, 1991). This is a well-written and well-researched examination of the events (and mistakes) leading up to "The Day of Infamy" and its aftermath.