Yamamoto: The Man Who Planned Pearl Harbor

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was not the highest ranking Japanese naval officer in the Pacific War era but he was a radical advocate of naval air power and the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Hoyt the author of numerous studies of World War II capably relates the intriguing life and times of Yamamoto and explores the thinking of this complex man who in spite of his role at Pearl Harbor had profound misgivings about Japans chances in a war against the United States.