On the Treadmill to Pearl Harbor: The Memoirs of Admiral James O. Richardson, USN (Retired)

xiv, 558 pp. 8vo. The memoirs of Admiral James O. Richardson, who served from 1902 through 1947. Richardson argued against deploying the Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbor, citing vulnerability to Japanese forces, but his opinion was ignored and his position led him to be stripped of his command ten months before his fears were realized in December of 1941.