OPERATION VENGEANCE: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II. de Hampton, Dan - (2020)

New York:: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins),, (2020). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. l. First printing. An account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor. "In 1943, the United States military began to plan one of the most dramatic secret missions of World War II. Its code name was Operation Vengeance. Naval Intelligence had intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated Americas entry into the war." Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. xvi, 430 pp.