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===Further reading=== {{refbegin|30em|indent=yes}} *{{Citation |last=Beach |first=Edward L. Jr. |date=1995 |title=Scapegoats: A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor |publisher=Naval Institute Press |isbn=1-55750-059-2 |author-link=Edward L. Beach, Jr.}} *{{Citation |ref=none |last1=Clausen |first1=Henry C. |last2=Lee |first2=Bruce |date=2001 |title=Pearl Harbor: Final Judgment |publisher=HarperCollins}}. An account of the secret "[[Clausen Inquiry]]" undertaken late in the war by order of Congress to Secretary of War [[Henry L. Stimson]]. Clausen was given the authority to go anywhere and question anyone under oath. Ultimately, he traveled more than 55,000 miles and interviewed over a hundred US and British Army, Navy, and civilian personnel, in addition to being given access to all relevant Magic intercepts. *{{cite journal |mode=cs2 |last1=Condon-Rall |first1=M. E. |date=1989 |title=The U.S. Army medical department and the attack on Pearl Harbor |journal=J Mil Hist |volume=53 |pages=65β78 |issue=1 |pmid=11617401 |doi=10.2307/1986020 |jstor=1986020}}. This article discusses the state of medical readiness prior to the attack, and the post-attack response by medical personnel. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Dorsey |first=James |date=2009 |contribution=Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: 'Fascist Proclivities' Made Real |editor-last=Tansman |editor-first=Alan |title=The Culture of Japanese Fascism |publisher=Duke University Press |location=Durham, North Carolina / London |pages=409β431}}. A study of Japanese wartime media representations of the submarine component of the attack on Pearl Harbor. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Fish |first=Hamilton III |date=1983 |title=Tragic Deception: FDR and America's Involvement in World War II |publisher=Devin-Adair |isbn=0-8159-6917-1 |author-link=Hamilton Fish III}} *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Gannon |first=Michael V. |date=2001 |title=Pearl Harbor Betrayed |publisher=Henry Holt and Company}}. A recent examination of the issues surrounding the surprise of the attack. *{{Cite magazine |mode=cs2 |ref=none |last=Haynok |first=Robert J. |date=2009 |title=How the Japanese Did It |publisher=United States Naval Institute |volume=23 |issue=6 |journal=Naval History Magazine |url=http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2009-12/how-japanese-did-it |access-date=February 6, 2013 |archive-date=June 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607195401/http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2009-12/how-japanese-did-it |url-status=live}} *{{Citation |editor-last=Hixson |editor-first=Walter L. |date=2003 |title=The United States and the Road to War in the Pacific |volume=3 |series=The American Experience in World War II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mJWrEeqMfgC |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-94031-1 |access-date=March 21, 2023 |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404221251/https://books.google.com/books?id=5mJWrEeqMfgC |url-status=live }}. Part of a twelve-volume series. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Holmes |first=W. J. |date=1979 |title=Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II |publisher=United States Naval Institute}}. Contains some important material, such as Holmes's argument that, had the US Navy been warned of the attack and put to sea, it would have likely resulted in an even greater disaster. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Hughes-Wilson |first=John |date=2004 |title=Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups |edition=revised |orig-date=1999 |publisher=Robinson}}. Contains a brief but insightful chapter on the particular intelligence failures, and a broader overview of what causes them. *{{Citation |ref=none |last1=Kimmett |first1=Larry |last2=Regis |first2=Margaret |date=2004 |title=The Attack on Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated History |publisher=NavPublishing}}. Using maps, photos, unique illustrations, and an animated CD, this book provides a detailed overview of the surprise attack that brought the United States into World War{{spaces}}II. *{{cite report |mode=cs2 |last=Krepinevich |first=Andrew F. |date=February 25, 2002 |title=Lighting the Path Ahead: Field Exercises and Transformation |publisher=Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments |url=https://csbaonline.org/uploads/documents/2002.02.25-Field-Exercises-and-Military-Transformation.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924003422/https://csbaonline.org/uploads/documents/2002.02.25-Field-Exercises-and-Military-Transformation.pdf |archive-date=September 24, 2021 |access-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live }}. Contains a passage regarding the Yarnell attack, as well as reference citations. *{{Citation |ref=none |last1=Layton |first1=Edwin T. |last2=Pineau |first2=Roger |last3=Costello |first3=John |date=1985 |title=And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway β Breaking the Secrets |location=New York |publisher=W. Morrow |isbn=978-0-688-06968-1 |author1-link=Edwin T. Layton}}. Layton, Kimmel's Combat Intelligence Officer, says that [[Douglas MacArthur]] was the only field commander who had received any substantial amount of [[Purple (cipher machine)|Purple]] intelligence. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Madsen |first=Daniel |date=2003 |title=Resurrection-Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]]}} *{{cite report |ref=none |mode=cs2 |last=McCollum |first=Arthur H. |date=October 7, 1940 |title=Memorandum for the Director: Estimate of the Situation in the Pacific and Recommendations for Action by the United States |type=Memorandum |publisher=Office of Naval Intelligence |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McCollum_memorandum |access-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=January 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124120956/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McCollum_memorandum |url-status=live }}. The [[McCollum memo]] is a 1940 memo from a Naval headquarters staff officer to his superiors outlining possible provocations to Japan, which might lead to war (declassified in 1994). *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Melber |first=Takuma |date=2016 |title=Pearl Harbor: Japans Angriff und der Kriegseintritt der USA |language=de |trans-title=Pearl Harbor: Japan's Attack and the US Entry into the War |publisher=C.H. Beck |location=MΓΌnchen |isbn=978-3-406-69818-7}}. *{{Cite journal |ref=none |mode=cs2 |last=Moorhead |first=John J. |date=1942 |title=Surgical Experience at Pearl Harbor |journal=The Journal of the American Medical Association |volume=118 |issue=9 |page=712 |doi=10.1001/jama.1942.62830090002009}}. An overview of different surgical procedures at the hospital at the scene of the event. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Morgenstern |first=George Edward |date=1947 |title=Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War |publisher=The Devin-Adair Company |url=https://archive.org/details/pearlharborthestoryofthesecretwar/ }}. Conspiracy theory. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Parker |first=Frederick D. |date=1994 |title=Pearl Harbor Revisited: United States Navy Communications Intelligence 1924β1941 |publisher=National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic History |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/p/pearl-harbor-revisited-usn-communications-intelligence.html |via=[[Naval History and Heritage Command]] |access-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209030151/https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/p/pearl-harbor-revisited-usn-communications-intelligence.html |url-status=live }}. Contains a detailed description of what the Navy knew from intercepted and decrypted Japan's communications prior to Pearl. *{{Citation |ref=none |last1=Rodgaard |first1=John |last2=Hsu |first2=Peter K. |last3=Lucas |first3=Carroll L. |last4=Biache |first4=Andrew Jr. |date=December 1999 |title=Pearl Harbor β Attack from Below |work=[[Naval History (magazine)|Naval History]] |url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1999/december/pearl-harbor-attack-below |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060930030611/http://www.usni.org/navalhistory/Articles99/Nhrodgaard.htm |url-status=live |volume=13 |issue=6 |publisher=[[United States Naval Institute]] |archive-date=September 30, 2006 |name-list-style=amp }} *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Seki |first=Eiji |date=2006 |title=Mrs. Ferguson's Tea-Set, Japan and the Second World War: The Global Consequences Following Germany's Sinking of the SS Automedon in 1940 |location=London |publisher=Brill/[[Global Oriental]] |isbn=978-1-905246-28-1}}. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Stille |first=Mark E. |date=2011 |title=Tora! Tora! Tora!: Pearl Harbor 1941 |series=Raid Series |volume=26 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-84908-509-0}} *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Stinnett |first=Robert |date=1999 |title=Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor |publisher=Free Press |isbn=0-7432-0129-9 |author-link=Robert Stinnett |url=http://www.pearlharbor41.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050616074335/http://www.pearlharbor41.com/ |archive-date=June 16, 2005 }}. A study of the Freedom of Information Act documents that led Congress to direct clearance of Kimmel and Short. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Takeo |first=Iguchi |date=2010 |title=Demystifying Pearl Harbor: A New Perspective From Japan |publisher=I-House Press}} *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Theobald |first=Robert A. |date=1954 |title=Final Secret of Pearl Harbor |publisher=Devin-Adair |isbn=0-8159-5503-0 |author-link=Robert A. Theobald}}. Foreword by Fleet Admiral [[William F. Halsey, Jr.]] *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Toll |first=Ian W. |date=2011 |author-link=Ian W. Toll |title=[[Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941β1942]] |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton}} *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Wedemeyer |first=Albert C. |date=1958 |title=Wedemeyer Reports! |publisher=Henry Holt Co. |isbn=0-89275-011-1 |author-link=Albert Coady Wedemeyer}} *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Wohlstetter |first=Roberta |date=1962 |title=Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision |publisher=Stanford University Press}}. The most cited scholarly work on the intelligence failure at Pearl Harbor. Her introduction and analysis of the concept of "noise" persist in understanding intelligence failures. *{{Citation |ref=none |last=Wohlstetter |first=Roberta |date=1965 |title=Cuba and Pearl Harbor: Hindsight and Foresight |journal=Foreign Affairs |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |volume=43 |number=4 |pages=691β707 |doi=10.2307/20039133 |jstor=20039133 |url=http://ias.wustl.edu/files/ias/imce/wohlstetter_cuba_and_pearl_harbor.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210231934/http://ias.wustl.edu/files/ias/imce/wohlstetter_cuba_and_pearl_harbor.pdf |archive-date=December 10, 2017 }} {{refend}}
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