num_pages: 446
description: It would be reassuring to believe that Pearl Harbor was just a colossal and extraordinary blunder. What is disquieting is that it was a supremely ordinary blunder. In fact, 'blunder' is too specific; our stupendous unreadiness at Pearl Harbor was neither a Sunday-morning, nor a Hawaiian, phenomenon. It was just a dramatic failure of a remarkably well-informed government to call the next enemy move in a cold-war crisis.
language: English
title: Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
titlecomplete: Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
genres: History, World War II, American History, International Relations, War, Military History, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 91
awards: awardedAt: -220896000000
name: Bancroft Prize
publisher: Stanford University Press