Recommended Reading
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"The OSS in China" by Maochun Yu |
| Tells the dramatic story of the
intelligence activities of the Office Of Strategic Services
(OSS) in China during World War II. Gives insight into
the barriers faced by Admiral Miles. Published in 1997 |
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| Price: Around $65.00 - New |
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""And I was there": Pearl Harbor And Midway - Breaking Secrets" by Rear Adm. Edwin T. Layton, Roger Pineau, John Costello |
| Dedicated to RI Guys and gives the
REAL story of the itelligence community including
proof that FDR had no prior knowledge of the attack on
Pearl Harbor. Published in 1985 |
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| Price: Around $10.00 - New |
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"SACO - The Rice Paddy Navy" by Roy Olin Stratton |
| How two men, Lieutenant General Tai
Li, Chief of Nationalist China’s Secret Service, and
RADM (then Captain) Milton E. Miles, USN, Chief of the
US Strategic Services in the Far East, met at Chungking
one day in early 1942 and formulated plans for
prosecuting the Navy’s part of the war in China and its
waters; how they selected a group of technicians and
fighting men to carry out America’s objectives; the
patience, tolerance and understanding employed by them
in welding Chinese guerrilla forces into an organization
whose activities extended from the borders of the Gobi
Desert to French Indochina and from the Himalayan
Mountains in Western Yunaan to China’s Pacific seaboard,
in front of and behind enemy lines. Published in 1950, Reprinted in 2004 |
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| Price: $19.95 From the Nimitz Museum Bookstore |
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"A Different Kind of War: The little-known story of the combined guerrilla forces created in China by the U.S. Navy and the Chinese during World War II" by Milton E. Miles |
| Admiral Miles account of the
activities of SACO in WWII. Published in 1967 |
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Price: Only available
second-hand (you can check places like
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"The Army Navy Game" by Roy Stratton |
| Tells the dramatic story of the
intelligence activities of the Office Of Strategic
Services (OSS) in China during World War II. Gives
insight into the barriers faced by Admiral Miles. Published in 1977 |
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| Price: Only available
second-hand (you can check places like
) |
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"From Troy to Entebbe: Special Operations in Ancient and Modern Times" by John Arquilla |
| Gives history of special operations
warfare, used today as text in Navy Graduate School at
Monterey, CA. Gives great kudos to SACO. Published in 1996 |
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| Price: Around $44.00 - New |
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"Days of Infamy" by John Costello |
| Based on declassified American and
British top-secret documents, the author reveals how major
strategic and diplomatic miscalculations by Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill together with the
military blunders committed by General MacArthur set the
stage for Japan's successful attacks on Pearl Harbor and
Clark Field. For the first time, he documents how it was the
devastating loss of air power in the Philippines - and not
the battleships lost at Pearl - which permitted Japan's
lightning conquest of the Far East in 1942. Published in 1994 |
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| Price: Around $20.00 - New |
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"Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor" by Robert B. Stinnett |
| Brings to light devastating evidence that
FDR knew of the Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbor. Gives
credit to R.I. Published in 2001 |
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| Price: Around $16.00 Paperback |
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