Contents

Cast of Principal Characters

Part 1 TANGLED WEB

1. “How Did They Catch Us with Our Pants Down, Mr. President?”

December 6–7, 1941

2. Mr. Knox Goes West

December 8–16, 1941

3. “Some Admiral or Some General in the Pacific May Be Made a Goat”

Herbert Hoover

December 17, 1941–January 29, 1942

4. “Settle Yourself in a Quiet Nook Somewhere and Let Old Father Time Help This Entire Situation”

Stark to Kimmel

January 25, 1942–February 1944

Part 2 PANDORA’S BOX

5. Mutiny on the Second Deck

6. The Hart Inquiry

February–June 1944

7. The Army and Navy Club

June–October 1944

8. “You Do Not Have to Carry the Torch for Admiral Kimmel”

June 1944–September 1945

Part 3 CONGRESS DANCES

9. “If I Had Known What Was to Happen … I Would Never Have Allowed Myself to Be ‘Tagged’ ”

William D. Mitchell

November–December 1945

10. Their Day in Court

December 31, 1945–January 31, 1946

11. Safford at Bay

February 1–11, 1946

12. “To Throw as Soft a Light as Possible on the Washington Scene”

Part 4 THE TENTH INVESTIGATION

13. Operation Z

1932–November 27, 1941

14. The Tracking of Kido Butai

November 26–December 6

15. Date of Infamy “But They Knew, They Knew, They Knew”

December 7–8, 1941

16. The Summing Up

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

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