December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War
II (1939-1945) - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six
Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves
on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in Pearl Harbor.
Depending on opposing viewpoints, the attack was either a brilliant
maneuver of audacious strategy, or a piece of unparalleled villainy and
deception by a supposedly friendly power. This revised edition,
containing the latest research on the events of December 7, 1941,
reveals several previously unknown aspects of the attack and dispels key
myths that have been built up around the fateful day - a day, as
Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would "live in infamy".