Back Door to War

Rating:
Summary: Compelling and convincing
Review: As the other reviewer has mentioned this book tries to show that the US not only knew of the impending attack by the Japanese but also pushed them in the direction leading up to the attack. Although the statement in the other reviewers comments about FDR planning the attack can be misleading it does seem that he had intimate knowledge of the attack and he desperately wanted to join WWII. The author does not debate the fact that the US's entrance into the war was critical, but that the only way the US could be convinced to join the conflict (due to its isolationism). In order to be compelled to fight the US needed to be attacked in a merciless manner. Hence his argument that the Japanese move in that direction. He also points out many facts around the attack that are convincing as well.

This is an excellent read.

Rating:
Summary: Compelling and convincing
Review: As the other reviewer has mentioned this book tries to show that the US not only knew of the impending attack by the Japanese but also pushed them in the direction leading up to the attack. Although the statement in the other reviewers comments about FDR planning the attack can be misleading it does seem that he had intimate knowledge of the attack and he desperately wanted to join WWII. The author does not debate the fact that the US's entrance into the war was critical, but that the only way the US could be convinced to join the conflict (due to its isolationism). In order to be compelled to fight the US needed to be attacked in a merciless manner. Hence his argument that the Japanese move in that direction. He also points out many facts around the attack that are convincing as well.

This is an excellent read.

Rating:
Summary: Volumes of details, but worth it
Review: If you can make it through this encyclopedia, you will be rewarded with the truth. This book goes into great detail which is necessary to prove what most of us shudder to hear, (much less accept) namely that FDR planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. What is even more shockng is that these service men were sacrificed so that the United States could enter a war with Japan as a back door to entering a war with Germany, which was engaged with the USSR on its eastern front. Since the USSR was the great experiment (of international socialism), FDR wanted to save it from possible extinction. Read this book if you have the courage to challenge the history lessons you were probably taught in school.