Insidious foes : the Axis Fifth Column and the American home front / / Francis Macdonnell

• Autore: MacDonnell Francis
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.5373; 973.917
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1995.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Insidious foes
• ISBN: 0-19-771393-9; 0-19-987991-5; 1-280-44184-4; 0-19-535775-2; 1-60256-004-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970008603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.