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Book Review of Orders is Orders (Stories from the Golden Age)

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Orders is Orders (Stories from the Golden Age) by L. Ron Hubbard.
It is 2 hrs and 33 mins long on 2 CD's.
The Chinese city of Shunkien is being bombarded by the Japanese, more than 100 Americans huddle in the halls of the American Embassy, they radio for medical supplies and money to buy food. The ambassador doesn't know what will get them first deadly Asiatic cholera, starvation, or the Japanese army.
Our hero is Gunnery Sergeant James Mitchell a hard drinking, hard fight Marine. His mission is to transport to money and supplies two hundred miles to Shunkien by Saturday. He has one a private PFC Toughy Spivists to help him with his mission. Along the way he finds another stranded American Goldy Brown a entertainer. they detour to the city of his birth, and and end up picking up his father. They have to travel through many Battles mostly on foot... it's along way to there destination. some profanity.
(****)