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Operation Snow

Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup, or a failure of U.S. intelligence agencies, or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt administration. But despite the attention historians have paid to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the truth about that fateful day has remained a mystery—until now. In Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor , author John Koster uses recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents to tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, forever. Operation Snow shows how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double-agents and communist sympathizers—most notably, Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into war against the United States, demonstrating incontestable Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A thrilling tale of espionage, mystery and war, Operation Snow will forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.

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Operation Snow

Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup, or a failure of U.S. intelligence agencies, or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt administration. But despite the attention historians have paid to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the truth about that fateful day has remained a mystery—until now. In Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor , author John Koster uses recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents to tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, forever. Operation Snow shows how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double-agents and communist sympathizers—most notably, Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into war against the United States, demonstrating incontestable Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A thrilling tale of espionage, mystery and war, Operation Snow will forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.

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Operation Snow

Operation Snow

by John Koster
Operation Snow

Operation Snow

by John Koster

Overview

Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup, or a failure of U.S. intelligence agencies, or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt administration. But despite the attention historians have paid to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the truth about that fateful day has remained a mystery—until now. In Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor , author John Koster uses recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents to tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, forever. Operation Snow shows how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double-agents and communist sympathizers—most notably, Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into war against the United States, demonstrating incontestable Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A thrilling tale of espionage, mystery and war, Operation Snow will forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621572923
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Publication date: 05/04/2015
Series: World War II Collection Series
Edition description: First Trade Paper Edition
Pages: 350
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John Koster writes frequently on American history. He is the author of The Road to Wounded Knee , which won the Sigma Delta Chi award for distinguished public service, and Custer Survivor , and has written for many historical publications, including Military History , American Heritage , and American History . Koster, a U.S. Army veteran, is fluent in half a dozen languages, and lives in New Jersey with his wife Shizuko Obo, an award-winning children’s author.

Table of Contents

Cast of Characters xi

Introduction xvii

Chapter 1 Meeting of Masterminds 1

Chapter 2 Agent of Influence 9

Chapter 3 Red Star vs. Rising Sun 23

Chapter 4 Eastern Thunder, Northern Frostbite 31

Chapter 5 The May Memorandum 37

Chapter 6 War Plan Orange 53

Chapter 7 Killing Off the Cabinet 75

Chapter 8 The Final Countdown 105

Chapter 9 The November Memorandum 115

Chapter 10 The Korean Cassandra 141

Chapter 11 The Search for Scapegoats 153

Chapter 12 Nemesis 165

Chapter 13 Check and Checkmate 203

Acknowledgments 217

A Note on Sources 219

Bibliography 225

Index 239

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