Synopses & Reviews
Praise for Operation SnowI found Operation Snow to be an irresistible page-turner. The attack exacted a terrible toll on both countries and changed the world forever. It is important to understand why that happened. Koster has made a significant contribution.”
Admiral Ronald J. Hays USN (Ret), former commander in chief Pacific Forces
To paraphrase Cicero, a nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but, as a rule, it cannot survive treason from within, especially when the traitorin this case Harry Dexter Whiteis allowed to lead the fools and the ambitious. The U.S. survived. Its a cautionary talethe exception that proves the rule.”
Thomas K. Kimmel Jr., former FBI agent, Pearl Harbor scholar, grandson of Admiral Husband Kimmel
Fascinating and compulsively readable. What a book! The House Un-American Activities Committee transcripts are arresting in their exposure of Whites duplicity.”
Louise Barnett, Ph.D., professor of American Studies, Rutgers University, author of Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia and Touched by Fire
John Kosters Operation Snow opens a whole new window on the Russian role in fomenting Japans attack on Pearl Harbor to safeguard Russias eastern front.”
Edward H. Bonekemper III, Civil War historian, author of Grant and Lee
This book is important because Harry Dexter White was the most dangerous traitor in American history.”
Mikhail Smirnov, MA, Moscow University, former Soviet soldier
Synopsis
PEARL HARBOR WAS MORE THAN A SURPRISE ATTACKIt was, argues celebrated historian John Koster, part of a deep Soviet plotOperation Snow”to divert the Japanese into fighting the Americans rather than the Russians.
Even more startling, Koster reveals how Harry Dexter White, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelts most important men in the Treasury Departmentand also a Soviet spywas a key figure in the plot.
In Operation Snow Koster reveals:
- The previously neglected (and untranslated) sources that expose the Soviet conspiracy
- How Harry Dexter White got away with one of the most devastating acts of treason in American history
- How Japan and the United States were manip¬ulated by Russian agents and propaganda
- Why, if Operation Snow had failed, the Soviet Union might have collapsed under the com¬bined might of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan
- Stalins unwitting stoogehow FDRs Secretary of the Treasury was manipulated to promote policies that provoked war with Japan
- It didnt end with Pearl Harbor: how Harry Dexter White continued to act as a Soviet agent into the postwar era, until exposure prompted a disguised suicide.
Full of shocking detail, Operation Snow is a riveting exposé of an extraordinary intelligence operation that radically altered the Second World War, with consequences that are almost impossible to measure.
Think you know the story of Pearl Harbor? You dont know the full story until you read Operation Snow.
Synopsis
Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup, or a failure of U.S. 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. In Operation 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, forever. Operation Snow shows 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 tale of espionage, mystery and war, Operation Snow will forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.
About the Author
John Koster writes frequently on American history. He is the author of The Road to Wounded Knee, which won the Sigma Delta Chi award for distinguished public service, and Custer Survivor, and has written for many historical publications, including Military History, American Heritage, and American History. Koster, a U.S. Army veteran, is fluent in half a dozen languages, and lives in New Jersey with his wife Shizuko Obo, an award-winning childrens author.