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When The Pentagon Papers were first published it caused a political storm. The report showed how the government had lied about the war in Vietnam, and how they were secretly expanding the war. The government moved to legally block the publishing of the report and charged its author with espionage while government agents also sought to discredit him. A senator attempted to read the report on the Senate floor, and legal manoeuvring was used to bring that to a halt.

This book was issued to allied commanders towards the end of the WWII. The allied leadership was expecting a prolonged armed occupation of Germany with German patriots continuing the war by other means. The German high command made much of the “werewolf” units they would be seeding across the country to make any occupation a bloody affair. In this book commanders were offered advice based on the experiences of the occupying forces that had ruled over Europe during the war.