Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia

by Allan Beekman

When the sun rose on December 7, 1941 much of the world was at war. Despite her inability to impose her rule on China, Japan had struck at Southeast Asia. In Europe the forces of Josef Stalin had begun an offensive against the crack German army that had driven to the gates of Moscow. Against great odds, beleagured Great Britain was fighting the Germans and its Italian ally on two continents and looking anxiously to America for succor. Of the great powers only America was not a proclaimed belligerent. The Japanese, driven to desperation, were now poised to strike at the American giant who stood between them and their goal of Asian hegemony. This book organizes into a coherent whole the elements that coalesced into the tragedy of Pearl Harbor.

407 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1992