Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold Paperback – December 26, 2005

I never realized the extent this nation has been lied to. Now I understand why 99 percent of the population is broke and we never had a chance to realize the dream of freedom. America is supposed to be the "land of the free and home of the brave", what a crock. Well guess what the game is almost up, america is waking up! Your days will be numbered.Our so called heroes were nothing more than crooks, murderers. gangsters who only have one interest money or in this case gold.This book details very well known men Nixon, MacArthur, Truman , Dulles, Reed, Haig GEORGE H. W. BUSH, AND SONS ROTHSCHILDS, OPPENHEIMER, WARBURGS, ROCKEFELLERS, KISSINGER and most of other so called presidents used secrecy and power to plunder and destroy nations and people. I am ashamed to have been born in this country."At Morgan's Jekyll Island estate in 1910, the Robber Barons followed Warbug's game-plan to take control of ALL US currency and gold. As Warburg said at that secret meeting, it was essential not to let American citizens know the Federal Reserve was a cartel of private banks, BUT TO PERSUADE THEM THAT IT WAS A GOVERNMENT AGENCY. IN OTHER WORDS, THERE WAS NOTHING "FEDERAL" ABOUT IT, AND ALL CONTROL OF CURRENCY AND GOLD WAS "RESERVED" TO THE PRIVATE BANKSERS WHO OWNED ITS STOCK. THE MAJORITY OF THAT STOCK WAS HELD BY BANKS NOW CALLED MORGAN-CHASE AND CITIBANK."This book details very well known corporations who used secrecy and power to plunder and destroy the good people around the world. What is hilariously called WHO'S WHO'S world wide is listed in this book.If you want to know about your history you need to purchase and read this book.

Other reviewers have already praised this book and written the same opinions that I have but nevertheless I am tossing in my own kudos for this amazing, well-researched piece of work. But to add weight to what the other reviewers have written I would also want to add that what makes this book extremely credible (however "incredible" it may read), the eventual reader ought to know that there are 15 pages in the bibliography section and the Annotations section is 75 pages long; serious resarch! That section begins with the the following two sentences: "The purpose of this book is to reveal why so little is known about Japan's industrial-scale looting of Asia, and the devious role Washington played in the cover-up that continues to this day. Many people will be shocked and dismayed by our revelations...". One small example, as a westerner living and presently working in Japan, was to read that in one of my favorite places I enjoy paddling my sea-kayak, the island of Sadogashima, has a popular tourist site which consists of visiting the centuries-old gold mines. During the war it was operated by Mitsubishi which employed slave labor, including American POWs, and that as the war came to an end, to hide everything, the soldiers guarding the mines took all 387 American POWs to mine shafts deep below the earth and detonated explosives thus entombing them alive. Also useful for those readers wishing to verify certain sources, or simply curious, is a CD available through a website mentioned at the book's beginning, at the cost of $20 (there was no return address and the postmark was from Germany).

Absolutely astonishing book - and while one fellow above bashed the supporting references, I note that he didn't delve into the 2 CDs of supporting material (such as scans of maps made by the Japanese military showing where the gold was hidden in the Phillipines & all the boobytraps).A lot of this makes sense, intuitively. For example, where in the heck did Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos get all of that wealth? I've read that they "looted the Phillipine people" - hello? Where did the Phillipine people get billions of dollars (American) to loot in the first place?Secondly, if you read more about how the world's economy was changed fundamentally after World War II, this book provides some missing pieces. It's a brilliant strategy, really - the USA essentially cornering the market on gold, forcing the rest of the world to adopt gold (and pegging it to the dollar) as the new standard, and thus, you are left with (for all practical purposes) endless funds for covert wars against Communist/ leftist regimes.Why people are shocked by this is puzzling. In the 1950's and 1960's it wasn't considered any sort of problem to be meddling in the world's politics; and the history of US involvement repressing elections in Latin America is well documented. And we won't even get into some of the covert actions (like Iran-Contra) that we KNOW about, so an educated student of history has to assume there are far more details than we have even been told.Back to the book, the story about how Nixon eventually surrenders control of the secret gold to the Japanese power structure in exchange for covert funds for his presidential campaign sure sounds like the Nixon we are all familiar with.This is an extraordinary book, one can only wonder how many more details will surface in upcoming years...

This book is well written. It is completely documented and gives instructions in the back of the book on how to order copies of newspaper clippings and research notes and records stored on various digital devices for your review and confirmation of the facts. The Seagraves have done an excellent job of taking the reader through that period of history and moves through the events as if the reader was there. From Japan's systematic theft of financial wealth, gold, art treasures and antiquities of the countries throughout Southeast Asia to the United States' complicit cover-up of the recovery of this wealth, the reader walks away with a sadness in knowing that the leadership of the United States had no sense of justice or moral turpitude by its failing to return the stolen goods to the countries of origin and their citizens.

Informing read of history

the momenmt i open the book i see the print is werry small so if you have poor eye side dont buy this book

Seagrave provides a dazzling account of the motivations, practicalities and personalities behind the savage capture of loot in Asia by Japanese forces. Beyond that, the involvement of US officials to take advantage of massive stocks of gold greatly impacted military history, political power and bribery. One of the gold related deals involved a prevailing political party in Japan being bankrolled !The book is easy to read and plenty of supporting references are provided. Your view of twentieth century history will change forever from reading it !

Why are documents on relations between the US and Japan still secret? Why do Japan and above all the US discourage any attempts to get compensation for former prisoners who worked as slave labourers under the Japanese army in jungles and factories - those of them who survived...The question of the gold and other treasure plundered from across Asia by the Japanese military rulers is closely connected to today's hidden financial system.

Outstanding historical story of Gold found in the Philippine archipelago throughout South East Asia. Have read this book at least 3 times and seems to get better with every read.