Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor
Subtitle: Why the United States Declared War on Germany
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781588261267
Subjects: American history: Second World War; American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; War & defence operations; Second World War, 1939-1945; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; USA; History & Theory - General; International Relations - General; Military - Other; Military - World War II; Diplomatic history; Foreign relations; Germany; National security; National socialism; United States; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "Richard Hill challenges a major point of conventional wisdom on U.S.-Axis relations to explain why the U.S. held Hitler responsible for the Japanese action - and why Hitler's December 11 declaration of war was inconsequential to the U.S. involvement in the European theater. Hill's carefully argued analysis reveals widespread acceptance in late 1941 that the route to Tokyo was through Berlin - that Germany was the overlord of Japan, as well as its coconspirator.

Despite emerging uncertainty about German guilt for Pearl Harbor, he shows, the prevailing public opinion in the first weeks after December 7 mandated a Germany-first strategy and continued to color U.S. policy throughout the war."--BOOK JACKET.