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December 1941. The Japanese strike force is already at sea.

But this time, America is ready.

When a brilliant young codebreaker at Station HYPO picks up a chilling pattern in Japan’s radio silence, his discovery reaches the Oval Office. President Roosevelt, haunted by a lifetime of political instinct, makes a fateful decision: fortify Hawaii,...

The war America won at Pearl Harbor is far from over.

December 7, 1941 was supposed to be Japan’s greatest victory. Instead, it became a trap. The Japanese fleet was expected. The American carriers were waiting. And when the smoke cleared over Pearl Harbor, Admiral Kimmel held the initiative—and Lieutenant Jack Gibson, the Ace of Pearl Harbor,...

The Philippine Sea is won. The carriers are gone, the supply lines are cut, and the Imperial Japanese Army is fighting a war it no longer knows how to win. But Japan has not surrendered. Jack Gibson commands the Lightning Squadron. Patton drives north through the mountains of northern Luzon. Yamamoto, in his cabin aboard Yamato, opens the...

September 30, 1938. Neville Chamberlain steps off a plane at Heston Aerodrome waving a piece of paper signed by Adolf Hitler. “Peace for our time,” he tells the cheering crowd.

Four days later, his heart stops on a flight home from Paris. He is dead before the plane lands.

The Munich Agreement is signed. It is not ratified. Parliament has not...

ONE WAR HAS ENDED. ANOTHER HAS BEGUN. AND THE MEN WHO SURVIVED THE FIRST ARE ABOUT TO LEARN THAT FRANCE WAS THE EASY ONE.



Autumn 1939. France has fallen. Britain stands alone on an island that does not yet know how alone it is, with a Channel that is twenty-one miles wide and a navy that has to be everywhere at once.



In Berlin, a German general...