"Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement" by Henry C. Clausen, Special Investigator for the Secretary of War, and Bruce Lee, Published by Crown, 1992. Stated First Edition, First Printing with digit '1' present in the digit line; illustrated with photographs.

This account of the top-secret investigation is "essential history . . . the authoritative appraisal of why American armed forces met the Japanese attack asleep" (The Christian Science Monitor).

Original dust jacket with un-clipped original price on the front flap [a little wear], hard boards, black cloth spine with silvery lettering; 6.1/4" x 9.1/2"; residue of small removed label inside front cover; 485 pages including Index, several photographs on glossy paper, near fine condition.

"Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement" reveals all of the eye-opening details of Clausen's investigation and is a damning account of massive intelligence failure. To this day, the story surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor stokes controversy and conspiracy theories. This book provides conclusive evidence that shows how the US military missed so many signals and how it could have avoided the events of that fateful day.

On December 6, 1941, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, assured his staff that the Japanese would not attack Pearl Harbor. The next morning, Japanese carriers steamed toward Hawaii to launch one of the most devastating surprise attacks in the history of war, proving the admiral disastrously wrong. Immediately, an investigation began into how the American military could have been caught so unaware.

The results of the initial investigation failed to implicate who was responsible for this intelligence debacle. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, realizing that high-ranking members of the military had provided false testimony, decided to reopen the investigation by bringing in an unknown major by the name of Henry C. Clausen. Over the course of ten months, from November 1944 to September 1945, Clausen led an exhaustive investigation. He logged more than fifty-five thousand miles and interviewed over one hundred military and civilian personnel, ultimately producing an eight-hundred-page report that brought new evidence to light. Clausen left no stone unturned in his dogged effort to determine who was truly responsible for the disaster at Pearl Harbor.

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