Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-JUN-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: O'Connell, John F.
Article Excerpt
Preemptive Strike: The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor. By Alan Armstrong. Guilford, Ct.: The Lyons Press, 2006 [an imprint of the Global Press]. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography, Index. Pp. xvii, 285. $22.95. ISBN: 1-59228-913-4.
Alan Armstrong, an active pilot and aviation attorney, has written articles for various aviation journals. As such he is well qualified to take the reader through the murky world of domestic and international intrigue and politics of 1939 through 1941, when the Government of China sought assistance from the U.S. in its defensive war against Japan. One of his chapters deals with the legal status of the American Volunteer Group (AVG, or Flying Tigers). He does not speculate about what might have happened to any...
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