Both good reads. Could recommend quite a few more, from inside Naval Archives. Henry Stimson’s diaries for example, and the book most often cited for the so called “conspiracy theory” is the one by Robert B. Stinnett in response to the Prange book.
Stinnett followed with 17 years of research and the publishing of his book, “Day of Deceit-The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor”. Quite revealing. Won’t go any further in the discussion. Without details, family took the message “Attack- this is no Drill” on board 6 hours out of Pearl Harbor, in a vessel which had already sunk some japanese shipping between Pearl and Midway— in October. Will leave it there.
The subject matter leaves a bad taste— sort of like LBJ’s completely FAKE as hell Silver Star for combat he never took part in (him and Connally, thanks to their buddy Nimitz). Tiresome lying prongs— both of them- typical machine demonrats.
The U.S. government made nine official inquiries into the attack between 1941 and 1946, and a tenth in 1995. They all have been critiqued (often from a very political point of view massaging facts, etc.)
Thank you for the information.