Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement: The Shocking True Story of the Military Intelligence Failure at Pearl Harbor and the Fourteen Men Responsible for the Disaster

Written by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee

Narrated by Tom Parks

This account of the top secret investigation is "essential history . . . the authoritative appraisal of why American armed forces met the Japanese attack asleep" (The Christian Science Monitor).

On December 6, 1941, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, assured his staff that the Japanese would not attack Pearl Harbor. The next morning, Japanese carriers steamed toward Hawaii to launch one of the most devastating surprise attacks in the history of war, proving the admiral disastrously wrong. Immediately, an investigation began into how the American military could have been caught so unaware.

The results of the initial investigation failed to implicate who was responsible for this intelligence debacle. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, realizing that high-ranking members of the military had provided false testimony, decided to reopen the investigation by bringing in an unknown major by the name of Henry C. Clausen. Over the course of ten months, from November 1944 to September 1945, Clausen led an exhaustive investigation. He logged more than fifty-five thousand miles and interviewed over one hundred military and civilian personnel, ultimately producing an eight-hundred-page report that brought new evidence to light. Clausen left no stone unturned in his dogged effort to determine who was truly responsible for the disaster at Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement reveals all of the eye-opening details of Clausen's investigation and is a damning account of massive intelligence failure. To this day, the story surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor stokes controversy and conspiracy theories. This book provides conclusive evidence that shows how the US military missed so many signals and how it could have avoided the events of that fateful day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Aug 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9781978658431

Henry C. Clausen

Henry C. Clausen lived and practiced law in San Francisco. He died in 1993.

Reviews for Pearl Harbor

[mike starkey · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I loved the narrator voice inflection and vocal variety. It may be the best entertaining while we students of history get new information regarding Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Regarding the author's conclusion Kimmel and Short being responsible. The writer is still using these two as scapegoats. Command and control was in DC. Two purple machines were in DC about as far away from where they needed to be as possible. As I understand the military requested and was denied planes for long range recon. The aircraft to protect Oahu were not just to be on the bases at Oahu but also on the carriers which were strangely out to sea leaving Oahu unprotected. Then there is the matter of inadequate numbers of planes and the inferior American planes. To repeat the main complaint and it is serious is Washington refused to decentralize information and the know it alls wanted to be the ones to inform the brass in Hawaii what K and S needed to know and when it needed to know it. Stimson could not completely fry K and S because the splatter would have gone up to the manipulative executive branch.

[book1dragon1952 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Since this year is the 75th year since the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I'm reading a few books on the subject.I found this book to be very informative. It is written by the Special Investigator for the Secretary of War. He clears up some misconceptions and errors in the report of events at Pearl Harbor by obtaining sworn affidavits from different people directly involved in the actions of that fateful day. I recommend this book.

[jamespurcell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Possibly, the definitive book on Pearl Harbor and how it happened. A, very Harry Truman like,lawyer get "carte blanche" from Secretary of War Stimson to determine the intelligence flaws and subsequent coverups prior to and after the actual attack. A volunteer in for the duration of WW2, he pursues an investigation around the world that causes him to personally interview participants that range from clerks, that managed our information desks and communication linkages to strategic receptors, such as MacArthur that would have benefited greatly from accurate and timely information. Much detail that is interesting but complex to follow until you realize how a few key people really, mostly for personal advancement or circling the service, Army or Navy, wagons made a difficult but resolvable situation a national disaster. His apportionment of blame in the final chapters can be strongly defended by his very stringent rules of evidence collection and documentation. Kimmel and Short had all the information needed between them and failed to communicate, the rest is history.