The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as
"Operation Vengeance" -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots
of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku
Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack
on Pearl Harbor. "AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NO DRILL." At
7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island
Command Center typed what would become one of the most famous radio
dispatches in history, as the Japanese navy launched a surprise
aerial assault on U.S. bases on Hawaii. In a little over two hours,
more than 2,400 Americans were dead, propelling the U.S.'s entry
into World War II. Dead Reckoning is the epic true story of the
high-stakes operation undertaken sixteen months later to avenge
that deadly strike - a longshot mission hatched hastily at the U.S.
base on Guadalcanal. Expertly crafting this "hunt for Bin
Laden"-style WWII story, New York Times bestselling author Dick
Lehr recreates the tension-filled events leading up to the
climactic clash in the South Pacific skies - frontline moments
loaded with xenophobia, spycraft, sacrifice and broken hearts. Lehr
goes behind the scenes at Station Hypo on Hawaii, where U.S. Navy
code breakers first discovered exactly where and when to find
Admiral Yamamoto, on April 18, 1943, and then chronicles in
dramatic detail the nerve-wracking mission to kill him. He focuses
on Army Air Force Major John W. Mitchell, the ace fighter pilot
from the tiny hamlet of Enid, Mississippi who was tasked with
conceiving a flight route, literally to the second, for the only
U.S. fighter plane on Guadalcanal capable of reaching Yamamoto
hundreds of miles away - the new twin-engine P-38 Lightning with
its fabled "cone of fire." Given unprecedented access to Mitchell's
personal papers and hundreds of private letters, Lehr reveals for
the first time the full story of Mitchell's wartime exploits up to
the face-off with Yamamoto, along with those of key American pilots
Mitchell chose for the momentous mission: Rex Barber, Thomas
Lanphier Jr., Besby Holmes, and Ray Hine. The spotlight also shines
on their enemy target -Admiral Yamamoto, the enigmatic, charismatic
commander in chief of Japan's Combined Fleet, whose complicated
feelings about the U.S.-he studied at Harvard-add rich complexity.
In this way Dead Reckoning offers at once a fast-paced recounting
of a crucial turning point in the Pacific war and keenly drawn
portraits of its two main protagonists: Isoroku Yamamoto, the
architect of Pearl Harbor, and John Mitchell, the architect of the
Yamamoto's demise. Dead Reckoning features black-and-white photos
throughout.
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