(You will need uTorrent or some other torrenting client to download these documents. This is perfectly legal, since they belong to me and I want to distribute them as widely as possible.)
In late 1945, General Marshall made his final report on the conduct of the Second World War to President Harry Truman. The government decided to declassify his report and make it available to the general public, price $1. It tells you -- not with the polish of history on it, but at the time -- what the people running the American war effort were up to; what decions they made and why they made them. Strategy, tactics, logistics, weapons development and doctrine, the rations the GI's ate, why we never produced a heavy battle tank, why we didn't invade Normandy in 1943... everything, all in minute detail, including a lot of stuff that never seems to make it into the history books. (You'll never fully appreciate, for example, what a horrendously complex operation DE-mobilization after a global war is until General Marshall explains to to you.)
They must have printed millions of these, each with its own advertisements for local businesses and a section of What Our Community Did During The War, but after a lifetime of haunting estate sales and antique shops this is the only copy I have ever been able to find. And now it is yours. I've scanned in everything in order, blank pages included. All you have to do is print out double-sided copies on heavy paper stock and have it spiral bound, and you will have a very fair copy of the original.
https://kickass.to/marshall-victory-report-naval-radio-traffic-on-the-eve-of-the-armistice-from-original-scanned-in-source-docs-t8901702.html