Introduction | p. vii |
Preface | p. xiii |
List of Major Personnel | p. xix |
Abbreviations | p. xxiii |
Prologue | p. xxxi |
The Base and the Summit | |
"We Were All Out There" | p. 3 |
"Slow in Waking Up" | p. 15 |
"Too Deeply to Bury Their Hate" | p. 34 |
"Bait for a Japanese Attack" | p. 45 |
"To Avoid War with Japan" | p. 66 |
"He Had Supreme Responsibility" | p. 91 |
"On Lines of National Policy" | p. 105 |
"Looking in the Wrong Direction" | p. 121 |
Advisers, Planners, and Chiefs | |
"With Knives and Hatchets" | p. 141 |
"Unsurmountable Obstacles" | p. 158 |
"Crimination and Recrimination" | p. 177 |
"To Help and Serve" | p. 194 |
"Faults of Omission" | p. 212 |
"Outside of Effective Contact" | p. 233 |
"A Finger of Blame" | p. 248 |
"Primarily a Failure of Men" | p. 267 |
"The Pitfalls of Divided Responsibility" | p. 285 |
"A Lack of Imagination" | p. 298 |
"East Wind Rain" | p. 312 |
Field Commanders and Operators | |
"A Sentinel on Duty" | p. 333 |
"Alerted to Prevent Sabotage" | p. 348 |
"The Failure to Comprehend" | p. 363 |
"An Important Man in an Important Post" | p. 384 |
"Peculiar, Complicated and Tense" | p. 398 |
"Always Striving for Perfection" | p. 416 |
"His Most Grievous Failure" | p. 430 |
"The Last Critical Stages" | p. 446 |
"It Is Inexplicable" | p. 464 |
The View from the Crow's Nest | |
"Blessed by the War God" | p. 479 |
"A Strategic Imbecility" | p. 498 |
"A Mental Attitude" | p. 516 |
"In the Wake of the Pearl Harbor Disaster" | p. 532 |
"Remember Pearl Harbor!" | p. 549 |
Appendices | |
The Pearl Harbor Investigations | p. 647 |
Japanese Proposals of November 20, 1941 | p. 650 |
"War Warning" Messages of November 27, 1941 | p. 651 |
Proposed Modus Vivendi | p. 653 |
Japan's "Bomb Plot" Message | p. 656 |
The Hull Note of November 26, 1941 | p. 657 |
Popov Questionnaire | p. 660 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 663 |
Index | p. 677 |
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