Heroes Battle ZeroesWorld War II was an Allied victory that looks more assured now than it did at the time. Like the Nazi invasion of Russia, you can call the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a case of colossal overreach, yet it didn’t seem so crazy and reckless going down.
In
fact, for several long months after December 7, 1941, momentum was all on the
side of the Japanese. It’s this aspect of the war, when the Americans and their
allies were in the role of decided underdogs, that Martin Caidin draws upon in this
account of the air war in the Pacific.
