Target: Pearl Harbor

by Michael Slackman

Book Overview

Target: Pearl Harbor takes a fresh look at the air raid that plunged America into World War II by scrutinizing the decisions and attitudes that prompted the attack and left the United States... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824813782
• ISBN13: 9780824813789
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

scrutinising the circumstances and decisions

It is a vivid account of the Pearl Harbour attack. the author starts by scrutinising the circumstances and decisions that prompted the attack and left the United States so unprepared, looking at Japan's objectives in South East Asia, the political and economic developments which drew them into conflict, and at American strategic thought.