The Panay Incident: Prelude to Pearl Harbor

xviii, 295 pp. ...examines the repercussions that followed the sinking, and the various rumors that ensued. ...provides both a moving account o the heroism of the Panay's crew and a chilling picture of the ruthless Japanese military operations in China, the Japanese extremists who wanted total war--and almost had it in 1937--and the uneasy atmosphere of the late thirties when the entire world was engaged in a dress rehearsal for the greatest global war in history.