Acknowledgments

PERMISSION HAS been granted to quote from the following books:

How War Came by Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley, by permission of Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York. Copyright, 1942, by Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley.

Ten Years in Japan by Joseph C. Grew, by permission of Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York. Copyright, 1944, by Joseph C. Grew.

They Call It Pacific by Clark Lee, by permission of The Viking Press, Inc., New York. Copyright, 1943, by Clark Lee.

The Armed Forces of the Pacific by Capt. W. D. Puleston, USN, by permission of the Yale University Press, New Haven. Copyright, 1941, by W. D. Puleston.

The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, by permission of Albert and Charles Boni, Inc.

Battle Report: Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea by Commander Walter Karig, USNR, and Lieutenant Welbourn Kelley, USNR, by permission of Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York. Copyright, 1944, by Farrar and Rinehart, Inc.

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man by Albert Jay Nock, by permission of Harper & Brothers, New York. Copyright, 1943, by Albert Jay Nock.

The Case against the Admirals by William Bradford Huie, by permission of E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York. Copyright, 1946, by William Bradford Huie.

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“An Adventure in Failure” by E. Stanley Jones, by permission of Asia and the Americas. Copyright by Asia Press, Inc. This article appeared as a special supplement to Asia and the Americas, Volume XLV, No. 12, December, 1945.

The author wishes to express his gratitude to Charles A. Beard for a scholarly appraisal of this work; to Mary D. Alexander, who prepared the manuscript for the printer; to Mrs. Adelaide Ohlendorf, who made the index; to Kathleen King, who designed the jacket; to Gary Sheahan, who drew the maps; and to Leon Stolz, who read the manuscript and gave valuable criticism.