Betrayal at Pearl Harbor : How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into War

London: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 185479096X Dust jacket complete, unclipped, fading to spine. Red cloth spine over black boards. Bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 303 pages clean and tight. Based on dramatic revelations and firsthand information, Betrayal at Pearl Harbor provides a shocking answer to one of the greatest mysteries of military history: Why was the United States so hopelessly unready for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Authors James Rusbridger and Eric Nave reveal for the first time what really happened in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. They tell how captured British Cabinet papers led the Japanese to believe that a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor could succeed. Drawing on Rusbridger's investigative reporting and Nave's personal experience, they also show how American and British intelligence battled in their efforts to break JN-25, the Japanese naval code and key to the surprise attack, which was deemed so secret that for fifty years, until the publication of this book, the governments of both the United States and the United Kingdom denied its very existence. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, after half a century of coverups, Rusbridger and Nave can finally reveal what secret information was available to whom-and when. Did JN-25 give Winston Churchill advance knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and if so, was Roosevelt told? Did the President know that American intelligence had also broken JN-25? Were the Japanese plans kept from Roosevelt by his own staff, and did Churchill, in a desperate scheme to drag the United States into the war, also keep vital information from him? The astonishing answers that Rusbridger and Nave provide to these troubling questions will change forever the way the history of this period is viewed. .