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Description:
When these two [authors] combine their considerable experience, the
reader has to pay attention. Naval Aviation News
In 1999, by a vote of 52 to 47, the U.S. Senate cleared the names of
Admiral Husband Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter Short of blame for
leaving Pearl
Harbor
vulnerable to attack. According to the declaration, Kimmel and Short had
performed their duties "competently and professionally," and that
America's losses at Pearl were "not the result of
dereliction of duty."
Revisionist historians have been trying for years to portray Short and
Kimmel as innocent scapegoats. However, Major General Kenneth Bergquist is among the many witnesses who went to their
graves crying "foul," but not before telling their stories to
historians Jack Lambert and Norman Polmar.
This book combines the evidence of never-before-seen photos and documents,
Lambert's taped interviews with some of the last surviving witnesses,
exhaustive research of all remaining evidence, Polmar's
perspective as naval warfare commentator for the History Channel, and Barry
Levenson's legal experience trying cases before
the U.S. Supreme Court, to finally put the case of the tragic failure of
command and dereliction of duty leading up to December 7, 1941, to rest.
Senator Strom Thurmond called Kimmel and Short "the final two victims
of Pearl
Harbor."
In reality, was the last victim the truth?
Hardcover 6 x 9 258 pages 75 b/w
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