This study examines the miraculous works of the late Dr. Gordon W. Prange regarding the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 during World War II. However, in order to fully understand his way of writing and thinking, this study deals with his education, researches, military services as well as the Prange Collection.

Prange's Tora! Tora! Tora! appeared in Reader's Digest magazine in a two part condensed format in October and November in 1963. The magazine subsequently published this in the form of a 64-page pamphlet under the same title in 1964. In 1966, an expanded Japanese deluxe edition (approximately 400 pages) of Tora! Tora! Tora! was published by the Reader's Digest of Japan Inc., but the English edition was not published until 1981. The title, sub-title, contents, and the other major bibliographical points had been changed significantly after his death in 1980.

Eventually, a five-volume work, covering the political, economic and military background of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was published with the editorial help of his students. His books then became the widely-known best seller. This study finds also that Prange's works break no new ground methodologically and conceptually. However, they offer admirably consistent and binational perspectives.