Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

understand his views of the world and what he is fighting for. Roosevelt, on the other hand, is a politician. In 1944, his greatest concerns are not about the fighting, but about electoral matters. He will need slightly more than a week in Texas and New Mexico when it comes to campaigning. And these two states are bigger than the combined land mass of France and Germany, which are the objects of the Allied invasion. According to the way the Magic Summaries read to a politician, the Allies have the war well in hand. But Marshall reads the words of a foe that is determined to fight to the death, willingly committing suicide if it will cost the lives of American soldiers and sailors.