Orders from Nowhere: Battlefield Decisions That Changed History Without a General's Consent

At 7:39 on the morning of December 7, 1941, two privates watched an unusual blip creep across a radar screen in Hawaii. They followed every rule. They called it in. They were told not to worry about it. Fifty minutes later, the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor.History is not only written by generals. It is written, just as often, in the four or five seconds a corporal has to decide whether to fire...