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Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II
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Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II Paperback - 2001

by Bruce Lee; Preface by Bruce Lee


Summary

This book, by famous martial artist and actor, Bruce Lee, recounts previously untold tales about WWII codebreaking, which led to the defeat of Germany as well as the agreement between the US and England to use nuclear weapons against Japan.

From the publisher

Robert T. Crowley, an intelligence officer in World War II who later became a senior executive at the CIA, has called Marching Orders simply one of the most important books ever published about World War II. At last available in paperback, the book reveals a host of previously untold stories about codes and codebreaking -- including how the American breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple ciphers led to the defeat of Germany, as well as why America and England agreed to use nuclear weapons against Japan. Bruce Lee, who had access to 1.5 million pages of U.S. Army documents and 15,000 pages of the sometimes daily top-secret messages sent to Tokyo from Japanese diplomats stationed in Berlin and elsewhere, constructs the most complete history available on American codebreaking activity and its consequences. He concisely documents the extraordinary casualties both American and Japanese forces would have suffered in an invasion and occupation of Japan, demonstrating through intercepted secret communications between Japanese leaders that Tokyo was adamant in its refusal to surrender.

First line

o one ever called Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson indecisive.

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  • Title Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II
  • Author Bruce Lee; Preface by Bruce Lee
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.s.a.
  • Date March 27, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306810367 / 0306810360
  • Weight 1.93 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 5.9 x 1.35 in (22.71 x 14.99 x 3.43 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Japan, World War, 1939-1945 - Cryptography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011389779
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.54

About the author

Bruce Lee, in a long and distinguished publishing career, has been editor-researcher for Cornelius Ryan and the editor of Gordon Prange, Admiral Edwin T. Layton, Ronald Lewin, Gordon Wekhman, William Craig, Ralph Bennett, and Charles B. MacDonald. He lives in New York City.
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