Volume 47, Number 17 · November 2, 2000
Did Roosevelt Know?
By David Kahn
Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert B. Stinnett
Free Press, 386 pp., $26.00
Every dozen years or so a new book comes out about Pearl Harbor. Some of these books merely tell how the attack succeeded. The more interesting ones seek to explain why. Why was it possible for a far-off country to surprise the mighty United States and sink some of its most powerful warships? The puzzle has been deepened by the knowledge that the United States had been breaking some of Japan's codes and reading some of its secret messages.
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