Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl HarborIn Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret and our worst military disaster. Drawing on twenty years of research and access to scores of previously classified documents, Stinnett proves that Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese military coup. By showing that ample warning of the attack was on FDR's desk and, furthermore, that a plan to push Japan into war was initiated at the highest levels of the U.S. government, he ends up profoundly altering our understanding of one of the most significant events in American history. |
Contents
Principal Characters | xi |
Preface | xiii |
The Biggest Story of My Life 1 | 5 |
FDRs Back Door to War | 10 |
The White House Decides | 24 |
We Are Alert for an Attack on Hawaii | 39 |
The Splendid Arrangement | 60 |
The Outside Man | 83 |
War May Come Quicker Than Anyone Dreams | 177 |
The Japs Are Blasting Away on the Frequencies | 189 |
A Pretty Cheap Price | 203 |
This Means War | 225 |
The Escape Was North | 243 |
Destroy Anything in Writing | 253 |
Afterword to the Paperback Edition | 261 |
Appendices | 271 |
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