Volume 38, Number 21 · December 19, 1991
Ghosts of Pearl Harbor
By Ian Buruma
Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans that Led to Pearl Harbor
by William H. Honan
St. Martin's, 346 pp., $22.95
Pearl Harbor Ghosts: A Journey to Hawaii Then and Now
by Thurston Clarke
Morrow, 411 pp., $22.00
A Time For War: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor
by Robert Smith Thompson
Prentice Hall, 449 pp., $24.95
An Enemy Among Friends
by Kiyoaki Murata
Kodansha, 241 pp., $19.95
Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II
by James Rusbridger, by Eric Nave
Summit, 302 pp., $19.95
'Why,' so an essay with the intriguing working title 'The Japs—A Habit of Mind' begins, 'do so many Americans, after witnessing the devastation and the futility of war, continue to think of Japan and the Japanese in terms of war? Why have so many Japanese a similar mental attitude toward the United States? Is this mutually apprehensive habit of mind, to whatever understandable origins it may be due, justified today?'[1]
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