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...
| Основен автор: | MacDonnell, Francis. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=143879 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Insidious foes. |
| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index. |
| ISBN: |
1602560048 9781602560048 9780195357752 0195357752 9780195092684 0195092686 1280441844 9781280441844 |