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This is a scholarly yet quite readable account of how military strategy prevailed over diplomacy and politics during the period from Pearl Harbor to victory at Guadalcanal. Analysis of pre-war activities--including considerable misinterpretation of intelligence and opposing intentions by Japan and the United States--is especially interesting. --Naval Institute Proceedings

"" This is a scholarly yet quite readable account of how military strategy prevailed over diplomacy and politics during the period from Pearl Harbor to victory at Guadalcanal. Analysis of pre-war activities--including considerable misinterpretation of intelligence and opposing intentions by Japan and the United States--is especially interesting."" --Naval Institute Proceedings

This is a scholarly yet quite readable account of how military strategy prevailed over diplomacy and politics during the period from Pearl Harbor to victory at Guadalcanal. Analysis of pre-war activities--including considerable misinterpretation of intelligence and opposing intentions by Japan and the United States--is especially interesting. --Naval Institute Proceedings

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William Bruce Johnson is a New York-based attorney and a professional writer specializing in government policy and its consequences in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

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