Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Navy's "Pyrrhic Victory"
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"The rise or fall of the Empire depends on this battle. Everyone must do his duty" - this order of Admiral Yamamoto (a paraphrase of the famous order of Nelson before Trafalgar, repeated by Togo before Tsushima) was read to Japanese sailors on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941 became for the U.S. "Day of Shame" - the Japanese deck aircraft managed to destroy the core of the Pacific Fleet, for a long six months seizing the strategic initiative and dominance at sea. The defeat was so crushing and the losses so great that the debate about the causes and culprits of the catastrophe has not subsided to this day. How did the Americans manage to "sleep through" this blow? Who is responsible for the tragedy of Pearl Harbor? Was this defeat not a clever provocation of the U.S. leadership, which deliberately "set up" its fleet to drag the American people, who did not want to fight, into the World Massacre? And why did the "Japanese Blitzkrieg" become a "Pyrrhic Victory"? Based on the latest sources that have only recently become available (declassified U.S. intelligence archives; Japanese pilots' reports that describe the battle in a completely different way; ultra-small submarines found at the bottom), this historical investigation provides a fresh look at one of the greatest naval disasters of the 20th century
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