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Defenseless: Command Failure at Pearl Harbor

Door John William Lambert e.a.

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#374231-XA47
Titel	Defenseless: Command Failure at Pearl Harbor
Auteur	Lambert, John William & Norman Polmar
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	St. Paul, MN : Zenith Press
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0760317399
ISBN13	9780760317396
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered blue boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	When these two [authors] combine their considerable experience, the reader has to pay attention. Naval Aviation NewsIn 1999, by a vote of 52 to 47, the U. S. Senate cleared the names of Admiral Husband Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter Short of blame for leaving Pearl Harbor vulnerable to attack. According to the declaration, Kimmel and Short had performed their duties "competently and professionally," and that America's losses at Pearl were "not the result of dereliction of duty." Revisionist historians have been trying for years to portray Short and Kimmel as innocent scapegoats. However, Major General Kenneth Bergquist is among the many witnesses who went to their graves crying "foul," but not before telling their stories to historians Jack Lambert and N... (Lees verder)orman Polmar. This book combines the evidence of never-before-seen photos and documents, Lambert's taped interviews with some of the last surviving witnesses, exhaustive research of all remaining evidence, Polmar's perspective as naval warfare commentator for the History Channel, and Barry Levenson's legal experience trying cases before the U. S. Supreme Court, to finally put the case of the tragic failure of command and dereliction of duty leading up to December 7, 1941, to rest. Senator Strom Thurmond called Kimmel and Short "the final two victims of Pearl Harbor." In reality, was the last victim the truth?
Pagina's	192
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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