Marching Orders

Bruce Lee, the editor of David Garrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning Bearing the Cross and coauthor with Henry Clausen of Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement, has analyzed recently declassified Magic codes (Japanese secret crypts) and U.S. Army Intelligence documents. The result is the most complete history available of American code-breaking activity and its consequences during World War II. Lee shows convincingly how these daily decrypts influenced Generals Marshall and Eisenhower in their strategic prosecution of the war.