![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prominent on the Japanese side are Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Vice Minister of the Imperial Navy, the architect of the attack Kichisaburo Nomura, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy who took a job as a dishwasher at Pearl Harbor Admiral Harold Starks, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Husband Kimmel, Commander of the Pacific Fleet Joseph J. Twomey, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Washington Post incorporates numerous biographical sketches of the major figures and these sketches include Japanese as well as American figures. In addition, the author explores the Japanese perspective on all events. ![]() The reader is provided a front row seat from which to witness the debates within the Roosevelt administration, the work of the intelligence community, and the approach the American military took in responding to the Japanese threat. Employing numerous primary source documents, memoirs, interviews, and a mastery of secondary materials Twomey has recreated the tension filled days leading up to the Japanese attack. Steve Twomey is a superb writer whose new book COUNTDOWN TO PEARL HARBOR: THE TWELVE DAYS TO THE ATTACK is a useful addition to the list of books recently published commemorating December 7, 1941. ![]()
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