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A Matter of Honor - Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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A Matter of Honor - Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize
finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to
expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day
2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore
his lost honor--and clear President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the
charge that he knew the attack was coming. The Japanese onslaught
on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 devastated Americans and
precipitated entry into World War II. In the aftermath, Admiral
Husband Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, was
relieved of command, accused of negligence and dereliction of
duty--publicly disgraced. But the Admiral defended his actions
through eight investigations and for the rest of his long life. The
evidence against him was less than solid. High military and
political officials had failed to provide Kimmel and his Army
counterpart with vital intelligence. Later, to hide the biggest
U.S. intelligence secret of the day, they covered it up. Following
the Admiral's death, his sons--both Navy veterans--fought on to
clear his name. Now that they in turn are dead, Kimmel's grandsons
continue the struggle. For them, 2016 is a pivotal year. With
unprecedented access to documents, diaries and letters, and the
family's cooperation, Summers' and Swan's search for the truth has
taken them far beyond the Kimmel story--to explore claims of
duplicity and betrayal in high places in Washington. A Matter of
Honor is a provocative story of politics and war, of a man willing
to sacrifice himself for his country only to be sacrificed himself.
Revelatory and definitive, it is an invaluable contribution to our
understanding of this pivotal event. The book includes forty
black-and-white photos throughout the text.
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