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Day of Deceit : The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert B. Stinnett Hardcover: The Free Press/ $26.00 (1999) Paperback: Simon & Schuster Trade/$16.00 (2001) A Japanese translated version will be published by Bungei Shunjyu in June 2001. |
| This book by Stinnett, a decorated naval veteran of WWII, made a quite hot controversy when it was published in 1999. Gregory McNamee wrote a review for amazon.com: “It was not long after the first Japanese bombs fell on the American naval ships at Pearl Harbor that conspiracy theories began to circulate, charging that Franklin Roosevelt and his chief military advisors knew of the impending attack well in advance. Robert Stinnett (…) examines recently declassified American documents and concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war with America” and “knowingly sacrificed American lives in order to enter the war on the side of England.” Stinett writes, "faced powerful opposition from isolationist forces, and, against them," the Pearl Harbor attack was "something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil--the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England." | |
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