Glen WillifordCritiques

What one has here is a case of truth in advertising, as both the title and subtitle of this book accurately describe the contents. Starting with an interest in the last American attempt to reinforce the garrison in the Philippines before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the author eventually spreads a wider net in terms of covering all the efforts to generate a build-up in the Philippines to hopefully discourage a Japanese attack, to the desperate effort staunch the Japanese offensive of 1941-42 and how the emergency efforts eventually became the foundations of the logistical apparatus for the counter-offensive of 1942; readable, detailed and highly recommended.

This is good read - about the pre-war and early days of the war that would get overshadowed by later operations involving millions of men and tens of thousands ships and planes. Well-written and researched.