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Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States

Door Alex Abella e.a.

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#329084-ZA13
Titel
Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States
Auteur
Abella, Alex & Scott Gordon
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Guilford, CT : Lyons Press
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
1592281427
ISBN13
9781592281428
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting

Here is the incredible true story of one of Adolf Hitler's most diabolical plans: to wreak havoc and terror in America's cities through the hands of carefully trained German agents whose goal was to sabotage manufacturing plants, cut off New York's water supply, and bomb train stations and Jewish-owned department stores. Shadow Enemies follows the incredible facts of this episode, from the recruitment and training of the agents to their landing on the shores of New York and Florida and their successful infiltration into American society, and from there to the desperate attempts of the FBI to apprehend them before they could put their plans into effect. With exclusive access to previously classified material, the authors of Shadow Enemies present a unique account that not only follows the... (Lees verder) unfolding of the plot, but also affords a glimpse of the motives and fears of a key member of the Nazi cell. Equally fascinating is the second part of the story. Fearful that a civilian jury might find the defendants innocent, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered that, since the agents had been captured in the act of espionage during wartime, they had no civil rights and could therefore be tried by a hitherto unknown military tribunal. The resulting trial led to the execution of six of the eight conspirators only two months after their arrest. Shadow Enemies is not only an astonishing World War II story, but it also examines pertinent questions of civil rights, justice, and how wartime necessity affects these central principles of American life.
Pagina's
320
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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