The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy: And Other Tales from Home-Front America in World War II - Rilegato

Breuer, William B.

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ISBN 10: 0471234885 ISBN 13: 9780471234883

Casa editrice: Turner Pub Co, 2003

Riassunto

Collects fifty lesser-known World War II stories of military and espionage on the home front as drawn from personal interviews, official archives, declassified documents, books, articles, and magazines.

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L'autore:

WILLIAM B. BREUER is the critically acclaimed author of more than thirty military history books, including Daring Missions of World War II, Unexplained Mysteries of World War II, Top Secret Tales of World War II, Undercover Tales of World War II, Vendetta!: Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, and Shadow Warriors: The Covert War in Korea, all published by Wiley. Fourteen of his books have been main selections of the Military Book Club, including The Great Raid on Cabanatuan and MacArthur's Undercover War, both published by Wiley.

WILLIAM B. BREUER is the critically acclaimed author of more than thirty military history books, including Daring Missions of World War II, Unexplained Mysteries of World War II, Top Secret Tales of World War II, Undercover Tales of World War II, Vendetta!: Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, and Shadow Warriors: The Covert War in Korea, all published by Wiley. Fourteen of his books have been main selections of the Military Book Club, including The Great Raid on Cabanatuan and MacArthur's Undercover War, both published by Wiley.

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In his latest collection of fresh and surprising stories from World War II, popular author and distinguished historian William Breuer recounts over fifty little-known tales of military actions, espionage, and skullduggery on the home front. Based on personal interviews, official archives, and declassified documents, The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy features intriguing accounts of covert raids and combat experiments, spies and saboteurs, draft dodgers and do-gooders, and various escapes and secret operations.

Fascinating and fast-paced, The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy returns the reader to American shores and, in Breuer?s inimitable style, reveals dramatic and pivotal moments during the war, such as:

• The rounding up of 3,846 subversive suspects in the United States within the first seventy-two hours after Pearl Harbor
• The plane that bombed the Pacific Northwest
• The sinking of a Japanese submarine off the California coast
• The near destruction of Coney Island, thanks to eager-beaver air-raid wardens who searched the friendly skies for hostile aircraft
• The secret plan to draft females
• A barrage of explosive balloons
• The Nazi U-boat in New York Harbor
• The army bomber that crashed into the Empire State Building
• The dismantling of a Nazi spy network based in New York City?which included U.S. citizens

Breuer deftly captures the state of the nation when the first shock waves hit and war became an all-too-close-to-home reality, as women flocked to war plants and Hollywood celebrities gave up their hefty paychecks to enlist. As the stories unfold and the home front itself appears to be under siege, The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy underscores the devotion and sacrifices of the members of the armed forces and their families?and the country?s determination to bring the global conflict to an end.

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• Editore: Turner Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471234885
• ISBN 13: 9780471234883
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256