This is the only book that collates and compares the actual orders issued by General Marshall with the information he received from the Magic Summaries on a daily basis during the war—and, later, into the early months of America’s occupation of Japan. (2) It is the first book to point out that Generals Eisenhower and Bradley, and Field Marshall Montgomery, benefited prior to the invasion of Europe by knowing that (a) Hitler had swallowed the Allied deception plans about where they would land in Europe; (b) the Allied leaders knew the disposition of the German forces defending the beaches; (c)
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