Elm Grove Publishing

 

 

BEF    RE

PEARL HARBOR

China, FDR and the Plot to Bomb Japan

Michael Lemish

 

Could the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 have been prevented? 

Could war have been avoided? 

Or did this secret plan only hasten Japan’s intentions to attack the United States?

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In BEFORE PEARL HARBOR – China, FDR and the Plot to Bomb Japan, noted author and historian Michael Lemish explores America’s strained relationship with Japan and growing allegiance with China – already at war with the Japanese Empire since 1937 – and uncovers a top secret plan being hatched between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Chinese government to send U.S. heavy bombers to Tokyo, long before the attack on Pearl Harbor, in the hope of averting a war with Japan which seemed  more and more inevitable.  

Painstakingly researched and well-documented, this true story of political power and intrigue was hidden from the American people for decades following the war. The cast of characters reads like a Who’s Who of 1930s and ’40s celebrities, from pioneer aviators Charles Lindbergh and Jimmy Doolittle to writer Ernest Hemingway, as well as senior politicians and leading journalists from both countries – including Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek and his charismatic wife – and FDR himself.