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Preemptive Strike: The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor
The untold story of a secret planthat would have prevented Pearl Harbor—and maybe even World War II.

Could a plan to bomb Japan and destroy Japanese supply lines, communications, and staging areas in China have averted the horrendous and devastating attack on Pearl Harbor? On July 23, 1941—some five months before Pearl Harbor—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt endorsed a plan calling for the United States to provide China with 150 manned bombers and 350 fighter planes to wreak havoc on Japan’s growing presence in China. “Joint Board Plan 335” had been proposed to Roosevelt and his cabinet by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek; Dr. T. V. Soong, China’s special envoy to the United States; and Captain Claire Lee Chennault, a retired Air Corps pilot now in the employ of Chiang. Such a preemptive strike on Japanese interests had been under discussion for several months. Although initially blocked by General George C. Marshall, the plan was resurrected in the spring of 1941. So why, then, was it never employed?
First, there were the practical reasons: Not yet fully recovered from the Great Depression, millions of Americans were more concerned about domestic issues than foreign policy. Roosevelt and his cabinet feared political fallout from Chiang’s proposed international intrigue, to say nothing of facing Winston Churchill’s wrath by diverting airplanes from Britain. Then there were also ethical concerns over the definite civilian casualties the air strike would inflict. Could Roosevelt justify bombing raids when the U.S. and Japan were officially at peace? Chiang and Chennault argued that their plan would serve as a moral quid pro quo to an adversary that had been bombing and slaughtering millions of Chinese civilians for three years. The raids, Chennault insisted, would forestall Japanese expansion into Malaya, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.
Painstakingly researched and colorfully written, Preemptive Strike offers a seldom-seen glimpse of the political and moral pressures brought to bear on Roosevelt’s prewar cabinet. It is sure to prompt debate, as much as the decision to use this wartime strategy does today.





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Miscarriages Can Be Prevented
Each year, tens of thousands of couples suffer the bitter heartbreak of repeated miscarriage. Once, it was thought that little could be done. But now, there is hope. Groundbreaking medical research and new methods of treatment are allowing up to 80% of women, many who have given up hope of motherhood after suffering repeated miscarriages, to give birth to a normal, healthy child. This book, on the cutting edge of medical science, explains how the agony of repeated miscarriages can now be turned into the life-transforming joy of parenthood..
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At Issue Series - How Can Domestic Violence Be Prevented? (paperback edition) (At Issue Series)
Many experts on domestic violence agree that emphasis should shift from punishing batterers to keeping the abuse from reoccurring -- or, better still, keeping it from ever starting. Ideas about the best way to prevent domestic violence, however, vary widely. (20020801).
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AUSCHWITZ - SS DEATH CAMP: In a race against time Nazi Germany must, at any cost, be prevented from accomplishing its goal: European domination through the might of the atom bomb.
June 1942 . When Josef Mortkowicz, one of America's pre-eminent scientists, volunteers to infiltrate and sabotage the Reich's nuclear research programme events do not go according to plan. Arrested for a minor offence, identified as a Jew then deported to Auschwitz at a time the world knows nothing of the atrocities being perpetrated in the east (the Final Solution a still unknown concept), the Allies have but a few weeks at most to convince the Nazis they have unwittingly captured an absconded key physicist. Lieutenant Miller and his team are sent deep into enemy territory with the urgent brief to rescue and return. But to succeed he must fail. Mortkowicz has to be brought to the attention of the Nazis with cover intact and so Miller is hindered with orders to take rookie W/T operator Christa (Baby) Lynton. A combination of insubordination and sheer bad luck results in the team's imprisonment in Hitler's most infamous concentration camp where Christa is subjected to the horrors of torture, pain and and degradation by her assailant SS Untersturmfuhrer Kramer. Cruelly exploited by both Miller and Kramer we see how Christa's decisions and actions, as she fights for survival in an unimaginably inhumane world, influence the outcome of this most crucial of missions. Auschwitz-SS Death Camp skilfully blends fact with fiction taking the reader into the very heart of the camp's SS hierarchy: a nightmare realm with no rules..
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At Issue Series - How Can School Violence Be Prevented? (hardcover edition) (At Issue Series)
A string of school shootings in the United States has led educators, parents, and policy makers to seek ways to prevent such acts of violence In this engaging anthology, authors debate the usefulness of anti-bullying programs, increased security measures, gun control, and other measures designed to keep schools safe. (20020801).
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