West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy - A Documentary History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478154037)

For historians and many members of the informed public, the Japanese attack on Hawaii provoked "the never-ending story." Multiple official investigations and private historical inquiries into the attack and its background have generated enormous stocks of information about both the American and Japanese sides. It may well be that we know as much about December 7, 1941, as we do about any event in the last century, the Kennedy assassination possibly excepted. However, even with this virtual mountain chain of data, information gaps still exist, and many important questions remain under discussion or debate. The discussions and debates are not simply the province of conspiracy buffs. Academics and other researchers interested in World War II have a serious stake in settling the issues of the U.S.-Japan conflict; definite answers to many of the controversies would either confirm or refute theories of the war's origins and its meaning. This assemblage of documents, supplemented by the author's clear guide to their meaning, places the reader, as it were, right in the middle of the behind-the-scenes events and helps the scholar and researcher to follow them closely.

Author: Robert J. Hanyok,David P. Mowry,National Security Agency
ISBN-10: 1478154039
ISBN-13: 9781478154037
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2012
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.73d