Primary
Books
Layton, Edwin T., Roger Pineau, and John Costello. “And I Was There”. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985. This source had some very good information because the author was actually there. However, there was a lot of lengthy ramblings about personal matters of little importance.
Prange, Gordon W., Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon. Dec. 7 1941. New York: Warner Books, 1988. This book was an extremely detailed account of what transpired on December 7th. It was written using material from interviews, and much of it including thoughts of the interviewed still remains.
Iriye, Akira. Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999. This source contained a lot of memos, cables, and other communications from various people (such as the President and the Secretary of State) to others. There are messages from both sides, which provides deeper insight.
Russell, Henry Dozier. Pearl Harbor Story. N.p.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Written by one of the members of the Pearl Harbor Board, this source was relatively useful. However, there are a lot of unnecessary personal comments.
Shigenori, Togo. The Cause of Japan. Trans. Togo Fumihiko and Ben Bruce Blakeney. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. This source had minimal information, though it did give a different perspective (that of Japan’s foreign minister). Its primary focus was not Pearl Harbor, and there was very little detail.
Weintraub, Stanley. Long Day’s Journey Into War. New York: Trumany Talley Books, 1991. This book was a very detailed, hour by hour, account of what happened that day. However, because of this, it is very lengthy and difficult to read.
Secondary
Books
Andrew, Christopher. “Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Path to Pearl Harbor.” For the President’s Eyes Only. N.p.: Harper Perennial, 1995. 75 - 122. Though this source gives information on the intelligence and its affect on Pearl Harbor, there is also a lot of irrelevant information. Also, it is only a chapter, not the whole book, which would equate to less detail.
Casey, Steven. Cautious Crusade. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. This book is very thorough in its description of FDR’s supposed setup of Pearl Harbor. Even so, that is not is primary focus and there is a lot on Germany and the rest of the war.
Dallek, Robert, ed. The Roosevelt Diplomacy and World War II. 1970. Malabar: Rovert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1978. This book contains articles written by different authors of varying opinion, so it is clear there is some bias. As such, the information contained in it cannot always be trusted because of differences in interpretation between people.
Jeffreys Jones, Rhodri. “Pearl Harbor in Intelligence History.” Cloak and Dollar. 2002. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 115 - 130. This book provided minimal information revelent to the topic, as most of it was centered on the impact on the formation of the CIA and other intelligence related issues. It did give another view of things, however.
Melosi, Martin V. The Shadow of Pearl Harbor. London: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. This source was not of very much use because it mostly centered on the happenings after the attack, not before it. Nonetheless, there were some snippets of information that were useful and information about what followed the attacks helped give deeper insight.
Reynolds, David. From Munich to Pearl Harbor. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. Though there was some information, this source as a whole was not very good. It focused mostly on events that occurred elsewhere and at other times during the war.
Rosenberg, Emily S. A Date Which Will Live. London: Duke University Press, 2003. There was not as much information on the actual ‘Day of Infamy’, but this source was good because it has reflections on the effect of Pearl Harbor on modern times. It also has modern knowledge taken into account, being the most recently published of all my sources.
Rusbridger, James, and Eric Nave. Betrayal at Pearl Harbor. New York: Summit Books, 1991. This book is written more from Churchill’s point of view than Roosevelt’s, which makes it sometimes difficult to understand. Despite that, the fact that it gives a different viewpoint is good.
Stephan, John J. Hawaii Under the Rising Sun. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. This book provided an insight into why Japan wanted control of Hawaii, and what it would have done with it. It shows Hawaii’s importance to both the US and Japan, but the other information is not of much use.
Stewart, Robert, Ph.D. “Was the attack on Pearl Harbor really a surprise?” Mysteries of History. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2003. 166 - 175. Though this source was not as lengthy as some of the others, it was useful because it was concise and to the point. There were also a few photographs and drawings which were useful.
Stinnett, Robert B. Day of Deceit. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. This book contained a great deal of information relevant to the topic. The information was taken from papers in the National Archives and other official places, so there is no question of its truth.
Thompson, Robert Smith. A Time For War. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1991. This source does not have very much relevant information to the topic. It mostly deals with events before and after Pearl Harbor that transpired in other parts of the world.
Websites
National Geographic: Remembering Pearl Harbor. National Geographic Society. 14 Oct. 2004 . This website provided a very precise timeline (down to the very minute) and a very detailed interactive map of the attack. It helped convey a greater understanding of when and where things happened.
Pearl Harbor Attack: Index of Action Reports. 25 Aug. 2003. 14 Oct. 2004 . This website provided a very detailed account of what happened that day, as well as links to survivor interviews and other things of interest. There were a fair amount of high resolution pictures that were useful for the design of the site itself. The description of what lead up to the attack, however, is not very comprehensive.
Pearl Harbor Remembered. 15 June 2004. 14 Oct. 2004 . This source had a lot of detail on the ships and aircraft damaged and lost, as well as the men aboard the USS Arizona. There is too much focus on the USS Arizona alone, though.
Willey, Mark Emerson. Pearl Harbor - Mother of All Conspiracies. 14 Oct. 2004 . This is a very comprehensive site with data written concisely and then elaborated on later. It does a very good job of giving the background, and has a lot of relevant information.
background music is "A Small Measure of Peace" from the Last Samurai soundtrack
photographs are from the US Navy and Day of Deceit, by Robert Stinnett. some photographs were taken by Ashlyn Kong
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