Marching Orders

With all the books written about WWII, it is tough to find some new information. Still, they exist in the so-far confidential reports based on the decoded content of foreign diplomatic messages. This book relies very heavily on the information provided by the Japanese embassies in Germany and elsewh......more

Marching Orders I have very mixed feelings about Marching Orders. I enjoyed the account of the massive contribution that code breaking played in the creation of the war strategy. The amount of documentation revealed here is overwhelming. The research by the author, the intimate details of the histo......more

Tedious Useful if daily reporting of intelligence is desired. It took me a long time to skip to the end and I wish I did so sooner. Chapter 1 makes good points then the rest bogs down.......more

Good book, long for an e-book. A lot of surprising info about how we got to the post-war east vs west europe, and in-depth considerations about why we dropped the bomb that I never thought of. Very interesting read, well written.......more

Lee used new access to US Army documents to compare the intercepted top-secret messages dispatched to Tokyo from the Japanese embassy in Berlin and elsewhere around the world to actual events on the battlegrounds. Lining up the top secret and the open documents Lee demonstrated the necessity of cont......more