Defenseless: Command Failure at Pearl Harbor

John W. Lambert / Norman Polmar

ISBN 10: 0760317399 / ISBN 13: 9780760317396

Verlag: Motor Books International., 2003

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ISBN 0760317399. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition book in a Very Good to Near Fine condition dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. $27.95 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Defenseless: Command Failure at Pearl Harbor
• Verlag: Motor Books International.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• ISBN-10: 0760317399
• ISBN-13: 9780760317396
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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Inhaltsangabe

In 1999, the US Senate cleared the names of Admiral Husband Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter Short of blame for leaving Pearl Harbor vulnerable to attack. This work combines photos, documents, interviews and research of all remaining evidence.

Reseña del editor

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 Norman 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?