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MacDonnell Francis |
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Titolo |
Insidious foes : the Axis Fifth Column and the American home front / / Francis MacDonnell |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995 |
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0-19-771393-9 |
0-19-987991-5 |
1-280-44184-4 |
0-19-535775-2 |
1-60256-004-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Subversive activities - United States - History - 20th century |
Espionage - United States - History - 20th century |
World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service - United States |
Spies - United States - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 1995. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The study explores "the case of national jitters" that occurred in the United States in the years 1938 to 1942 following rumours of the existence of a German Fifth Column movement. It relates how both government and citizens exaggerated what was actually a modest German effort. |
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