[Review] December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor
Abstract
In this meticulously researched volume amateur historian
William Bartsch explores the events leading up to and the actual
destruction of the United States’ Far East Air Force in the Philippine
Islands on December 8, 1941. Bartsch pulls together an impressive
array of American and Japanese primary and secondary sources to
argue that the Japanese success in destroying the American air forces
in the Philippines in a single day was a greater strategic disaster than
the bombing of Pearl Harbor.