Cargando…

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacDonnell, Francis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Prelude to the Fifth Column Scare: The Lessons of World War I
  • 2. Dangerous Demagogues, Men on Horseback, and Native Fascists
  • 3. The Opening Alarm: The Rumrich Spy Case
  • 4. Other Fifth Columns: Italy, the Soviet Union, and Japan
  • 5. "Perfidious Albion": Great Britain and the Fifth Column
  • 6. The Fifth Column in Europe
  • 7. Keeping the Panic Alive: German Propaganda, Espionage, and Sabotage in the United States
  • 8. Franklin Roosevelt and the Fifth Column
  • 9. J. Edgar Hoover versus the Nazis.