New Pearl Harbor book tells the Japanese side of events in fateful attack | Navy Times

By Todd South, Dec 7, 02:18 AM

The book “Pearl Harbor” by Takuma Melber was published in 2021. It provides a detailed account of the attack from the Japanese perspective. (Polity Publishing)

For 80 years the Imperial Japanese military attack on Pearl Harbor and wider assault throughout the Pacific theater that brought the United States into World War II has seen countless retellings, analyses and even its share of conspiracy theories.

That history has largely been told from a distinctly American perspective for a U.S. audience. But a book published this past year offers a blow-by-blow account, diving into previously untranslated primary source material, from the Japanese perspective.

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