Pearl Harbor Countdown

Steely, S O: 2008 Pelican Publishing USA, hardcover with dustjacket 543 pages, illustrated. Pearl Harbor Countdown is a detailed biography of Admiral James O. Richardson, who vigorously opposed basing the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, warning that its exposed position invited a Japanese preemptive strike and that the navy lacked the manpower for war in 1940. The book follows Richardson’s life from modest beginnings through his clashes with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the subsequent investigations into the failures surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack, arguing that his ignored warnings were both prescient and professionally costly. ISBN 9781589805927 In very good condition