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Insidious foes : the Axis Fifth Column and the American home front /
Nazi Germany's efforts to weaken the United States by subversion failed miserably. Bungling spies were captured and half-hearted efforts at sabotage came to nothing. Yet anyone who lived through WWII remembers the chilling posters warning Americans that "Enemy Agents Have Big Ears" an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Nazi Germany's efforts to weaken the United States by subversion failed miserably. Bungling spies were captured and half-hearted efforts at sabotage came to nothing. Yet anyone who lived through WWII remembers the chilling posters warning Americans that "Enemy Agents Have Big Ears" and "Loose Lips Sink Ships." Even Superman joined the struggle against these insidious foes. In 1940, polls showed that 71% of Americans believed a Nazi Fifth Column had penetrated the country. Almost half were convinced that spies, saboteurs, dupes, and rumor-mongers lurked in their own neighborhoods and work-place. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1602560048 9781602560048 9780195357752 0195357752 9780195092684 0195092686 1280441844 9781280441844 9786610441846 6610441847 0199879915 9780199879915 |