Annotated Bibliography

Bard, Mitchell. World War II. New York: Alpha Books, 2004.

This book offers a significant amount of information on the events that led up to the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan and the United State’s reaction to the attack and their entrance into WWII.
There is a great deal of background detail presented which is helpful to someone who is searching for the cause or the events prior to Pearl Harbor. This source is very reliable and is unbiased. The section on Pearl Harbor gives both sides of the story, telling about some of the early warnings and how the government ignored them.
I used this source to assist in my research because it had accurate figures of damage done to the United States Navel fleet and deaths. It has not changed the way I feel about my topic, it has reinforced my feeling that our government knew the Japanese were planning this attack.


“Timeline Pearl Harbor.” Pearl Harbor Remembered. Pearl Harbor Survivors
Association. 25 Jan. 2005.


The website offers a minute by minute account of December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The account begins at 3:42 AM when a periscope is spotted in Honolulu Harbor.
This source is very reliable as the timeline is written from military documents that were recorded at the times the events occurred. It is unbiased, just tells the facts of the day as they happened.
This document did not help me much with my research other than to confirm the schedule of the day’s events.



Willey, Mark. Pearl Harbor Mother of All Conspiracies. 19 Jan. 2005.
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html.

The website “Pearl Harbor- Mother of All Conspiracies” is the epitome of an effective website for those individuals who believe in a conspiracy surrounding Pearl Harbor. This website, created by the author, Mark Willey, contains an excerpt from the first chapter of his book, Mother of Conspiracies. The author’s statements are credible and accurate. He quotes from public documents from the Navy Court of Inquiry, the Army Board Report and the Joint Congressional Committee Report. Although Mark Willey’s writing is credible, and he utilizes trustworthy sources for his information, the author is biased. Mr. Willey is adamant that there was a conspiracy between the United States government and Pearl Harbor. He does not speak about both sides of the issue. This website helped in my research because I agree that there was a conspiracy.

Lord, Walter. Day of Infamy. New York. Henry Holt and Company, 1985.

The main point of this book is to tell the story of the day of the Pearl Harbor attack. Mr. Lord tells the account of December 7, 1941 by using first hand accounts from soldiers and laymen that were present in Pearl Harbor that day.
This book is a very reliable source since the author uses direct quotes from men and women present and he lists the contributors at the end of the book. I believe this book is objective and unbiased. Mr. Lord just wants to tell the story of that day.
Day of Infamy has been helpful to me in my research because it gives an honest description of that day from people who were actually present and involved in the attack. It has not changed my mind about the events of Pearl Harbor; it has just confirmed the events of that day.



Persico, Joseph. Roosevelt’s Secret War. New York: Random House, 2001.

The topic of Roosevelt’s Secret War is the disclosure of how President Roosevelt led the United States into World War II without the general public realizing this was what was happening. This book covers the entire WWII years, and what and when the President knew certain facts about coming events like the Holocaust and Pearl Harbor. The book is very clear that President Roosevelt was deceptive and misleading to the American people.
It was a useful source for me because it was further proof of my belief that the U.S. government knew that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked by the Japanese and that our President had a part in concealing that knowledge. Roosevelt’s Secret War is accurate and objective and the author used sources close to the president and documents from the Library of Congress and they are cited in the back of the book.
This book was again a help to me to formulate my thoughts on the conspiracy surrounding Pearl Harbor.




Prange, Gordon. Pearl Harbor. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1986.

Pearl Harbor is a sequel to another book I used, called At Dawn We Slept.
Pearl Harbor goes more into depth about the conspiracy and warnings given to our government about what Japan was planning.
Mr. Prange worked on this book for 37 years and he interviewed every surviving Japanese officer who was part of the Pearl Harbor plan and attack as well as every other U.S. source that he could find.
This book was a good resource for me because it further added to my beliefs that our government knew in advance that the Japanese were going to attack us and they did nothing to stop it from happening.