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Introduction
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Preface
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Part I
Prelude
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"Cancer of the Pacific"
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"On a Moonlight Night or at Dawn"
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"Difficult but Not Impossible"
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"No Credence in These Rumors"
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"You Hurt the President's Feelings"
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"That Must Henceforth Bear Responsibility"
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"Our First Concern Is to Protect the Fleet"
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"The Hotbed of Espionage"
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"In Rather a Spot"
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"The Most Likely and Dangerous Form of Attack"
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"How Can Air Power Be Used Most Effectively?"
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"The Real Power and Potentialities"
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"With Guarded Approval"
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"The Strongest Fortress in the World"
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"Critical in the Atlantic"
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"The Kiss of Death"
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"Japan's Foreign Policy Will Not Be Changed"
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"As If He Were Beyond Penalty"
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"We Want Hustlers!"
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"Plenty of Potential Dynamite"
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"A Cunning Dragon Seemingly Asleep"
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"Prophetic in Its Accuracy"
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"Present Attitude and Plans"
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"A Very Strong Fighting Spirit"
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"Resolved to Go to War"
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"Waves and Winds So Unsettled"
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"A Serious Study"
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"The War Games"
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"Time Was Running Out"
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"But What About the Pacific?"
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"A Significant and Ominous Change"
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"No Matter What the Cost"
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"Now the Clouds Were Raised"
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"The Power, the Purpose and the Plan"
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"Pearl Harbor Will Be Attacked"
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"We Should Be on Guard"
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"As One with the Combined Fleet"
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Part II
Action
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"Other Kind of People"
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"Based on Deception"
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40.
"In the Hands of God"
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"Complete War Preparations"
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42.
"Ringing Bells and Banging Drums"
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"I Swear to Be Successful"
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"A Situation Full of Dynamite"
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"Things Are Automatically Going to Happen"
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"Wherever It Might Be Found"
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"Cleave the Enemy in Two!"
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"A Match for Anything Afloat"
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"That Was the Monkey Wrench"
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"To Be Considered a War Warning"
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"Our Diplomats Will Have to Be Sacrificed"
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"The Vacant Sea"
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"Glory or Oblivion"
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"Great Unease in All of Our Minds"
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"Sure Indication of War"
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"Another Straw in the Wind"
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"On a Keg of Dynamite"
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"This Means War"
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"The Japs Are Planning Some Deviltry"
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"An Awful Urgency"
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"Tora! Tora! Tora!"
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"Sound General Quarters"
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"They Caught Them Asleep, by God!"
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"Oh, How Powerful Is the Imperial Navy!"
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"The Chance of a Lifetime"
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Part III
Aftermath
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"An Excitement Indeed"
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"Our Flag Was Still There"
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"Clouds over Mountains"
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"Not on the Alert"
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"Dereliction of Duty"
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"The Ashes of a Bitter Past"
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"Something Ought to Be Done"
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"Full and Fair Disclosure"
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"We Have a Job to Do"
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"Errors of Judgment"
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76.
"We Want the Truth"
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"A Partisan Matter"
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"The Evidence Piles Up"
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"A Fighting Chance"
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"Fixing the Blame"
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"The Verdict of History"
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Afterword
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Appendix
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Notes
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Abbreviations Used in Text
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Source Material
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List of Major Personnel
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The Pearl Harbor Investigations
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841 |
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Selected Bibliography
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Revisionists Revisited
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Index
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