Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill-The Shocking Truth Revealed

by John Edmond Costello

s/t: How Their Secret Deals & Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor & the Philippines
Now, drawing on recently declassified American and British top-secret documents, New York Times bestselling historian John Costello reveals how major strategic and diplomatic miscalculations by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill together with the military blunders committed by General MacArthur set the stage for Japan's successful attacks on Pearl Harbor and Clark Field. For the first time, he documents how it was the devastating loss of air power in the Philippines - and not the battleships lost at Pearl - which permitted Japan's lightning conquest of the Far East in 1942.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1994

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

What happens to senior leaders in government and the military, when they screw up really bad, and lives are lost? Their subordinates are made scapegoats! Kimmel and Short; remember those names! They are the Navy and Army Hawaii commanders that were blamed for the Pearl Harbor disaster. And the other disaster, the one a few hours after Hawaii, what about that? Read the book and find out!

[Jim Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good account, but a bit dry for me.

[Jim · Rating 2 out of 5]

A tedious book with lots of detail. Did not finish this one.

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now I know why my Dad disliked MacArthur so much. Things haven’t changed much since 1941 in politics or the military.