The controversial, best-selling investigation of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor acclaimed as "a shocking account of judgments distorted by politics & career hunger & racism... fascinating reading."--LA Times
1) Tangled web
1 "How did they catch us with our pants down, Mr President?" 12/6-7/41
2 Mr Knox goes west 12/8-16/41
3 "Some admiral or some general in the Pacific may be made the goat."
Herbert Hoover 12/17/41
1/29/42
4 "Settle yourself in a quiet nook somewhere & let old father time help this entire situation."
Stark to Kimmel 1/25/42
2/44
2) Pandora's box
5 Mutiny on the second deck
6 The Hart inquiry 2-6/44
7 The Army & Navy club 6-10/44
8 "You do not have to carry the torch for Admiral Kimmel" 6/44
9/45
3) Congress dances
9 "If I had known what was to happen...I would have never have allowed myself to be 'tagged'"-Wm D. Mitchell 11-12/45
10 Their day in court 12/31/45-1/31/46
11 Safford at bay 2/1-11/46
12 "To throw as soft a light as possible on the Washington scene"
4) The Tenth investigation
13 Operation Z 1932
11/27/41
14 The Tracking of Kido Butai 11/26-12/6
15 Date of infamy. "But they knew, they knew, they knew" 12/7-8/41
16 The Summing up