Twomey, Steve,

Countdown to Pearl Harbor : the twelve days to the attack / Steve Twomey. - xiv, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781476776460 (hardcover) 9781476776484 (pbk.)

2016019080


United States. Navy --Officers--History--20th century.


Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
World War, 1939-1945--Causes.
Military intelligence--History--United States--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--United States.


United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
United States--Foreign relations--Japan.
Japan--Foreign relations--United States.

D767.92 / .T86 2016

940.54/26693