John Prados
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Acknowledgments - Foreword - Major Figures in the Book - Acronyms Used in the Book - 1. The Gamut of Secret Operations 2. The Cold War Crucible 3. The Secret Warriors 4. The Kind of Experience We Need 5. The Covert Legions 6. Bitter Fruits 7. Adventures in Asia 8. Acceptable Norms of Human Conduct Do Not Apply 9. Archipelago 10. The War for the Roof of the World 11. Another Black Hole of Calcutta 12. The Bay of Pigs: Failure at Playa Giron 13. Cold...
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From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agency's founding. During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you…there's nobody I respect more," hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could...
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Acclaimed WWII historian and military intelligence expert John Prados offers a provocative reassessment of the Allies’ battle for the Solomon Islands—a turbulent, dramatic campaign that, he argues, was the true turning point of the Pacific conflict.
Historians traditionally refer to the Battle of Midway as the point when Allied forces gained the advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, Prados points out that the Japanese forces...
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The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II-the greatest naval battle in history. As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine, and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey's unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle in history.
In Storm Over Leyte,...