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

According to David Eisenhower, General Bradley “suspected that the point in initiating the maneuver [MARKET GARDEN] was not to end the war but ‘to force Eisenhower’s hand on the [control of] the U.S. First Army.’” (p. 442) But “if Eisenhower refused MARKET GARDEN and its promise of Berlin, history might never forgive him.” Thus Eisenhower approved “an operation that probably neither man wanted, [which] was very likely to go forward at the risk of annihilating the airborne units and postponing necessary projects elsewhere.”