A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Household’s Quest for Justice

On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to show the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 People died, report on the persevering with battle to revive his misplaced honor—and clear President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the cost that he knew the assault was coming.

The Japanese onslaught on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 devastated People and precipitated entry into World Warfare II. Within the aftermath, Admiral Husband Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, was relieved of command, accused of negligence and dereliction of obligation—publicly disgraced.

However the Admiral defended his actions by means of eight investigations and for the remainder of his lengthy life. The proof in opposition to him was lower than stable. Excessive army and political officers had failed to supply Kimmel and his Military counterpart with very important intelligence. Later, to cover the most important U.S. intelligence secret of the day, they lined it up.

Following the Admiral’s dying, his sons—each Navy veterans—fought on to clear his title. Now that they in flip are useless, Kimmel’s grandsons proceed the battle. For them, 2016 is a pivotal 12 months.

With unprecedented entry to paperwork, diaries and letters, and the household’s cooperation, Summers’ and Swan’s seek for the reality has taken them far past the Kimmel story—to discover claims of duplicity and betrayal in excessive locations in Washington.

A Matter of Honor is a provocative story of politics and battle, of a person prepared to sacrifice himself for his nation solely to be sacrificed himself. Revelatory and definitive, it is a useful contribution to our understanding of this pivotal occasion.

The ebook contains forty black-and-white images all through the textual content.