Jenkins - World War 2: Pearl Harbor Through Japanese Eyes: The First Stories of the Pacific Theatre (Pearl Harbor, World War 2, WW2, DDay, Battle of Midway, Pacific Theatre Book 1)

The nature of human behavior is such that sometimes the unbelievable happens and truly defies logic and reason. Even more appalling, can be the fact that some of these logic-defying actions are knowingly committed by individuals or groups in moments when logic and reason were used.

One such occurrence took place decades ago in a quaint little harbor of a coastal country, cocooned by the waters of the mighty Pacific Ocean. The year was 1941 and the venue was Pearl Harbor on the small island of Hawaii. In the wee hours of the morning of December 7th, the mighty airplanes of the Imperial Navy of Japan launched a devastating attack of unprecedented scale on the American Naval base of Pearl Harbor. The airplanes of the Oriental kingdom rained death and devastation to the entire Pacific Fleet of the American Navy stationed in the harbor. To say that the attack caught the Americans by surprise would be a grave understatement. Almost the entire American Navy was wiped out on that cold morning under wave after wave of the Japanese attack. The skies turned fiery orange, bowing to the firepower of the Japanese Air Force, while the ocean below turned scarlet with the bloodshed that ensued.

Details and history behind the incident will be revealed in the following chapters of this book. First, we must try and understand the horror and bloodshed that was demonstrated to people around the world that day. The attack was initially perceived as an act of utter and absolute disregard, an exercise in uncalled aggression targeted at a nation that had, until then, kept away from the chaos of the World War II. As the word of the attack spread, the world at large construed the actions of Japan as irrational and impulsive. It was discovered later that year that there had been years of meticulous preparation behind the attack that achieved a never-before-seen accuracy rate of 85 percent.

With few exceptions, the incident had largely been seen from the American point of view. Much like how the Holocaust is almost always seen from the Jewish point of view. This book hopes to offer an analysis of the events from the Japanese point of view. Please be clear that the intention behind the composition of this book is not to take sides with one party or provide a kind a vindication to the other. Instead, the aim is to peel off the layers of presumptions and clichs associated with the attack and present a fresh perspective of the events that unfolded. It is the intention of this book to put forward to you Pearl Harbor, as seen by the Japanese.

This book has been written in a way that even readers that do not know or understand history can read and understand the events in all their gravity and magnanimity. The attack on Pearl Harbor is unanimously considered by historians, military strategists, political exponents, and social analysts to be one of the single most defining moments of the Second World War. The reason is simple. The attack prompted America to enter into the fray. War was formally declared on Japan the very next day and Italy and Germany also made retaliatory declarations in subsequent days. The rest, was history.

Finally, please allow me to make my gratitude known to you for purchasing this book. I hope that at the end of this book you will be able to comprehend and take in the occurrences of Pearl Harbor from the perspective of the Japanese and the American.