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"So it’s entirely fitting that Amazon, that indigenous American e-tailer, now sells narrative nonfiction by masters like Pete Hamill, Ron Rosenbaum and Mark Greif in a pricing and programming algorithm that Amazon has developed exclusively for it. These are the Kindle Singles, novella-length nonfiction packaged as e-books. They sell for $2 to $3 apiece. (A novel-length Kindle book, by contrast, goes for anywhere between $4 and $12.) Amazon calls these short e-books Compelling Ideas Expressed at Their Natural Length. "
"While the Japanese debated the merits of the proposed operations, the United States Navy was trying to marshal its forces to counter the next Japanese offensive, but they did not know where or when the Japanese would strike. This was critical for two reasons: First, the United States was committed to a defensive war in the Pacific--they had to wait and react to Japanese actions, and, second, since they were committed to defend the Hawaii-Australia line with inferior numbers and weapons, the only real chance for success was to concentrate their forces at the right place at the right time. "
"A Priceless Advantage:
U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and
the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the Aleutians
Frederick D. Parker"
"A Magnificent Fight:
Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
Marines in World War II
Commemorative Series
by Robert J. Cressman"
"United States Army in World War II
The War in the Pacific
The Fall of the Philippines
Louis Morton "
" Reports of General MacArthur
THE CAMPAIGNS OF MACARTHUR IN THE PACIFIC
VOLUME I
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PREPARED BY HIS GENERAL STAFF
"
"The well-coordinated Japanese campaign, spread across great reaches of the Pacific, progressed with astonishing rapidity. The small U.S. Army and Marine garrisons on Guam and Wake surrendered on 10 and 22 December, respectively, and the British forces in Hong Kong on 26 December. Singapore, the supposedly impregnable British bastion on the Malay Peninsula, capitulated on 15 February 1942. Following lightning amphibious landings in Thailand and Burma, Japanese forces pushed to the northwest, threatening India. Only in the Philippines did the combined U.S.-Filipino units mount a prolonged resistance, holding out with grim determination for five months. "
"Combat Narrative
The
Java Sea Campaign
Publication Branch
Office of Naval Intelligence * United States Navy
1943"
"Captain Wallin salvaged most of the broken Pearl Harbor fleet that went on to figure prominently in the United States Navy's victory. So the account he masterfully tells covers what he masterfully accomplished. The United States owes him an unpayable debt for this high service among many others in his long career."
"Infamous Day:
Marines at Pearl Harbor
7 December 1941
Marines in World War II
Commemorative Series
by Robert J. Cressman
and J. Michael Wenger"
" Certain Aspects of MAGIC in the Cryptological Background
of the Various Official Investigations
Into the Attack on Pearl Harbor"
"
UNITED STATES CRYPTOLOGIC HISTORY
Pearl Harbor Revisited:
United States Navy Communications Intelligence
1924-1941
Frederick D. Parker"
"The Department of Defense is releasing for public use and research this multi-volume study giving the "MAGIC" or communications intelligence background of the 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster. In its review of classified records pursuant to E. O. 11652, the Department of Defense decided that it was in the public interest to declassify the intelligence which the U.S. obtained from the communications of its World War II enemies. This study contains a major part of the communications intelligence which the U.S. derived from intercepted Japanese communications during 1941. "
"The China Theater of Operations more resembled the Soviet-German war on the Eastern Front than the war in the Pacific or the war in Western Europe. On the Asian continent, as on the Eastern Front, an Allied partner, China, carried the brunt of the fighting. China had been at war with Japan since 1937 and continued the fight until the Japanese surrender in 1945. The United States advised and supported China's ground war, while basing only a few of its own units in China for operations against Japanese forces in the region and Japan itself. The primary American goal was to keep the Chinese actively in the Allied war camp, thereby tying down Japanese forces that otherwise might be deployed against the Allies fighting in the Pacific."
" United States Army in World War II
China-Burma-India Theater
Time Runs Out in CBI
by
Charles F. Romanus
and
Riley Sunderland"
"United States Army in World War II
China-Burma-India Theater
Stillwell's Mission to China
by
Charles F. Romanus
and
Riley Sunderland"
"United States Army in World War II
China-Burma-India Theater
Stillwell's Command Problems
by
Charles F. Romanus
and
Riley Sunderland"
"United States Government Manual
1945
First Edition
(Revisions through March 10) "
"By occupying Burma, the Japanese had not only gained access to vast resources of teak and rubber, but they had dosed the Burma Road, 700 miles of dirt highway that represented China's last overland link with the outside world. The reopening of an overland route to China would be the major American goal, indeed obsession, in the theater throughout the campaign. "
"Suffering from the travails of a civil war that had begun in 1911, and from pervasive economic problems, China had lost much of its enthusiasm for the struggle against the Japanese. Since 1937, when the Sino-Japanese conflict became an open war, China's best troops had been repeatedly defeated and its richest coastal and riverine cities captured by the Japanese. From the beginning of World War II, Allied planners believed it would be essential to assist China in its war against Japan, but had not regarded it as a decisive theater. Unable to deploy ground forces for operations there, the United States provided air and logistical support, technical assistance, and military advice to the Chinese army for its continuing struggle against the Japanese. "
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