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Article: Stars and Stripes Across the Pacific: the United States, Japan and the Asia/Pacific Region, 1895-1945.
- Article from:
- Military Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
- Author:
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William F. Nimmo, Praeger, New York, 2001, 289 pages, $65.95.
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said before Congress that December 7 is "a date that will live in infamy." Certainly all students of U.S. history, and in particular military history, are keenly aware of the events surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Most writings portray the Japanese as aggressors and lay the blame squarely at the feet of that nation's military leaders. Some revisionists, however, claim that the Japanese were actually victims. Revisionists claim that U.S. politicians wanted an excuse to go to war, and that political intransigence on the part of the United States ...