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Guadalcanal...Midway...the battle for the Philippines. In each of these critical conflicts, intelligence played a crucial role in bringing about an Allied victory. General MacArthur's brilliant pacific campaign was designed around espionage and guerrilla warfare. This is the story of his undercover war.

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An action-packed account of the heroics and resourcefulness of countless individuals who worked undercover in espionage operations under the direction of Douglas MacArthur. Tells in full for the first time the story of MacArthur's Allied Intelligence Bureau--an operation so secret that its existence was not known until long after World War II. Features new information based on first-hand interviews with those who participated in shortening the war and saving thousands of lives in the Pacific Theater. Includes an escape from a Japanese POW camp so dramatic that it seems implausible.
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Guadalcanal . . . Midway . . . the battle for the Philippines. In each of these critical conflicts, intelligence played a crucial role in bringing about an Allied victory. General MacArthur's brilliant Pacific campaign was designed around espionage and guerrilla warfare. This is the story of his undercover war.

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"An exciting narrative presented by a first-rate story teller." --Publishers Weekly on The Great Raid on Cabanatuan "A first-class historian." --The Wall Street Journal

"Another smasher by Breuer, who specializes in thrilling reports of WWII spycraft and warfare." --Kirkus Reviews on Race to the Moon

"Fast-paced, detailed, and satisfyingly dramatic." --World War II magazine on Devil Boats

"Vivid . . . skillfully written." --Los Angeles Times on Retaking the Philippines

"Brings to life how airborne soldiers survived, how the human will prevails . . . against overwhelming enemies, tactical failures, and even death." --The New York Times on Geronimo: American Paratroopers in World War II

MACARTHUR'S UNDERCOVER WAR

The covert war General Douglas MacArthur waged against Japanese forces in the Pacific arena was the largest undercover operation ever undertaken. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the legendary exploits and heroism of the thousands of courageous individuals who fought as spies, guerrillas, propagandists, and saboteurs behind enemy lines.

When the Japanese war juggernaut overran the Philippines, it took a near miraculous PT-boat escape for MacArthur to make his way to safety in Australia. He left behind a force of seventy thousand American and Philippine troops marooned on the Bataan Peninsula. To these brave men the general vowed, "I shall return."

Against overwhelming odds, MacArthur succeeded. Crucial to his success was his massive covert war effort. MacArthur created his own undercover warfare agency, the super-secret Allied Intelligence Bureau (AIB), to organize the many far-flung resistance groups. They were the coast watchers--jungle-wise miners, traders and planters, missionaries, and telegraph operators who occupied remote Pacific islands, living in the most primitive conditions while keeping a constant vigil for Japanese movement. They were American soldiers who escaped the Bataan Peninsula and were commanding guerrilla armies in the interior mountain and jungle locations of the Philippines. And they were double agents operating right under the noses of the Japanese in Manila, occupying positions close to the Imperial Army and in the collaborationist Philippine government.

The phenomenal success of MacArthur's island-hopping "hit-'em-where-they-ain't" campaign was built on the accuracy of the intelligence gathered by the AIB. Early in the conflict, the Americans cracked the secret Japanese naval code and established a chain of intelligence radio-monitoring posts circling the Japanese empire from Alaska to Australia. The information garnered from their interceptions of Japanese transmissions and from operatives on the ground allowed MacArthur to pick soft targets--islands the Japanese had left relatively unguarded--for invasion. It was the steel nerves and unbounded resourcefulness of those who fought the secret war that paved the way for MacArthur's "Great Return" to the Philippines and saved the lives of countless American soldiers.

In an action-packed narrative, MacArthur's Undercover War tells of thrilling feats of valor and derring-do--impossible missions to blow up harbors, kidnap heads of state, undermine currency, and arrange prison escapes, all deep within enemy territory. Firsthand interviews with veterans and information from previously unpublished documents reveal a riveting tale of World War II that has never been fully told.

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  • PublisherCastle Books
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 0785820485
  • ISBN 13 9780785820482
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages272
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