Operation Snow
How a Soviet Mole in FDRs White House Triggered Pearl Harbor

On December 7, 1941, the nation of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and prompted the United States entry into the bloodiest war in human history. Americans have long debated the cause of the bombing; many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup or a failure of US intelligence agencies or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt administration. But despite the attention historians have paid to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the truth about that fateful day has remained a mysteryuntil now. InOperation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDRs White House Triggered Pearl Harbor, author John Koster uses recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents to tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy.Operation Snowshows how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double agents and communist sympathizersmost notably Harry Dexter Whiteto lead Japan into war against the United States, demonstrating incontestable Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A thrilling account of espionage, mystery, and war,Operation Snowwill forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.