James Rusbidger And Eric Nave's Betrayal At Pearl Harbor

James Rusbidger and Eric Nave, Betrayal at Pearl Harbor
This book will discuss how two authors come together and tell people the betrayal at Pearl Harbor and how Churchill lured Roosevelt into World War II. The two authors obviously had something in common to have written such an inspiring book. James Rusbridger began his career working in the navel design office at Vickers Armstrong on a variety of conventional and nuclear weapon system (Summit Books, pp. 303). Eric Nave joined the Royal Australian Navy. Because of his special skills he was loaned to the Royal Navy to start their first codebreaking activities against Japan (Summit Books, pp. 303). Needless to say both authors loved something dealing with some type of war and challenge. In

Tew writes that the best book was yet to come. Robert B. Stinnett, a World War II Navy veteran, had discovered that Franklin Roosevelt’s had prior information that the Japanese were about to attack Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt gained the information through reading the decoded Japanese diplomatic and naval messages (Tew). He later says in his summary that Stinnett’s book Day of Deceit: “The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, added some great evidence backing up the Pearl Harbor battle, evidence that Franklin D. Roosevelt had acknowledge he did not share with his commanders at Pearl Harbor, nor with Congress, that the Japanese would soon attack, and evidence saying that President Roosevelt in fact had an 8-step plan he had been carrying out to spur and bait the Japanese into attacking our fleet harbored at Pearl Harbor”

The distance between Hawaii and Japan made the attack a bit difficult for Japan. The American intelligence officials weren’t prepared for the attack on Pearl Harbor, due to the fact of over confidence of the Japanese keeping the attacks in European colonies in the South Pacific: the Dutch East Indies. Because American military leaders were not expecting an attack so close to home, the naval facilities at Pearl Harbor were undefended. Almost the entire Pacific Fleet was moored around Ford Island in the harbor, and numerous amounts of airplanes were packed onto nearby airfields. To the Japanese, Pearl Harbor was an inevitable target. The article gives a very interesting fact that a single vote against Congress's declaring of war against Japan came from Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana. Rankin was a pacifist who had also voted against the American entrance into World War I. "As a woman," she said, "I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else"