Joshua

“A school yard full of unruly school children in which children don't always understand the consequences of what they do.
-US Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, on international relations”
― Jeff Shaara, To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

“We believed we knew everything they were thinking. Those Magic intercepts made us feel invulnerable. No, a better word is cocky. Their diplomats are chatting back and forth with Tokyo about the weather or color of their new Cadillacs while their military put a plan together to kick us in the teeth. We thought we knew everything. We didn't.
-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt”
― Jeff Shaara, To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

“If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue. As long as it is just the soldiers,”
― Jeff Shaara, The Last Full Measure

“All I propose is an attack that will paralyze the Americans, for perhaps six months. This attack is not about victory, about winning a war...It is about delaying them, keeping them back, damaging their military might and pride.
-Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto”
― Jeff Shaara, To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor