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Steve Twomey

Steve Twomey is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, formerly at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post. He is the author of Countdown to Pearl Harbor.

Stories from this author

The attack on Pearl Harbor was the worst day in the U.S. Navy’s history and the shock of a lifetime for just about any American who had achieved the age of memory.

How (Almost) Everyone Failed to Prepare for Pearl Harbor

The high-stakes gamble and false assumptions that detonated Pearl Harbor 80 years ago