CONTENTS

Introduction

Preface

Part I: PRELUDE

1. “CANCER OF THE PACIFIC

2. “ON A MOONLIGHT NIGHT OR AT DAWN

3. “DIFFICULT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE

4. “NO CREDENCE IN THESE RUMORS

5. “YOU HURT THE PRESIDENT’S FEELINGS

6. “THAT MUST HENCEFORTH BEAR RESPONSIBILITY

7. “OUR FIRST CONCERN IS TO PROTECT THE FLEET

8. “THE HOTBED OF ESPIONAGE

9. “IN RATHER A SPOT

10. “THE MOST LIKELY AND DANGEROUS FORM OF ATTACK

11. “HOW CAN AIR POWER BE USED MOST EFFECTIVELY?”

12. “THE REAL POWER AND POTENTIALITIES

13. “WITH GUARDED APPROVAL

14. “THE STRONGEST FORTRESS IN THE WORLD

15. “CRITICAL IN THE ATLANTIC

16. “THE KISS OF DEATH!

17. “JAPANS FOREIGN POLICY WILL NOT BE CHANGED

18. “AS IF HE WERE BEYOND PENALTY

19. “WE WANT HUSTLERS!”

20. “PLENTY OF POTENTIAL DYNAMITE

21. “A CUNNING DRAGON SEEMINGLY ASLEEP

22. “PROPHETIC IN ITS ACCURACY

23. “PRESENT ATTITUDE AND PLANS

24. “A VERY STRONG FIGHTING SPIRIT

25. “RESOLVED TO GO TO WAR

26. “WAVES AND WINDS SO UNSETTLED

27. “A SERIOUS STUDY

28. “THE WAR GAMES

29. “TIME WAS RUNNING OUT

30. “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PACIFIC?”

31. “A SIGNIFICANT AND OMINOUS CHANGE

32. “NO MATTER WHAT THE COST

33. “NOW THE CLOUDS WERE RAISED

34. “THE POWER, THE PURPOSE AND THE PLAN

35. “PEARL HARBOR WILL BE ATTACKED

36. “WE SHOULD BE ON GUARD

37. “AS ONE WITH THE COMBINED FLEET

Part II: ACTION

38. “OTHER KIND OF PEOPLE

39. “BASED ON DECEPTION

40. “IN THE HANDS OF GOD

41. “COMPLETE WAR PREPARATIONS

42. “RINGING BELLS AND BANGING DRUMS

43. “I SWEAR TO BE SUCCESSFUL

44. “A SITUATION FULL OF DYNAMITE

45. “THINGS ARE AUTOMATICALLY GOING TO HAPPEN

46. “WHEREVER IT MIGHT BE FOUND

47. “CLEAVE THE ENEMY IN TWO!”

48. “A MATCH FOR ANYTHING AFLOAT

49. “THAT WAS THE MONKEY WRENCH

50. “TO BE CONSIDERED A WAR WARNING

51. “OUR DIPLOMATS WILL HAVE TO BE SACRIFICED

52. “THE VACANT SEA

53. “GLORY OR OBLIVION

54. “GREAT UNEASE IN ALL OF OUR MINDS

55. “SURE INDICATION OF WAR

56. “ANOTHER STRAW IN THE WIND

57. “ON A KEG OF DYNAMITE

58. “THIS MEANS WAR

59. “THE JAPS ARE PLANNING SOME DEVILTRY

60. “AN AWFUL URGENCY

61. “TORA! TORA! TORA!”

62. “SOUND GENERAL QUARTERS

63. “THEY CAUGHT THEM ASLEEP, BY GOD!”

64. “OH, HOW POWERFUL IS THE IMPERIAL NAVY!”

65. “THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME

Part III: AFTERMATH

66. “AN EXCITEMENT INDEED

67. “OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE

68. “CLOUDS OVER MOUNTAINS

69. “NOT ON THE ALERT

70. “DERELICTION OF DUTY

71. “THE ASHES OF A BITTER PAST

72. “SOMETHING OUGHT TO BE DONE

73. “FULL AND FAIR DISCLOSURE

74. “WE HAVE A JOB TO DO

75. “ERRORS OF JUDGMENT

76. “WE WANT THE TRUTH

77. “A PARTISAN MATTER

78. “THE EVIDENCE PILES UP

79. “A FIGHTING CHANCE

80. “FIXING THE BLAME

81. “THE VERDICT OF HISTORY

Afterword

APPENDIX

Notes

Abbreviations Used in Text

Source Material

List of Major Personnel

The Pearl Harbor Investigations

Selected Bibliography

Revisionists Revisited

Index