Brian Masaru Hayashi (Professor of History, Professor of History, K

Asian American Spies

How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

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Produktbeschreibung

This history of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II reveals the inner workings of this spy agency and how Euroamerican leaders' conceptions of "race" and "loyalty" shaped US wartime intelligence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780195338850
• ISBN-10: 0195338855
• Artikelnr.: 60175183

Autorenporträt

Brian Masaru Hayashi is a Professor of History at Kent State University. He is the author of For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism Among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942 and Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Prologue: A Trojan Horse?
* Introduction
* Ch. 1. Creating an Inclusive, Centralized Intelligence Agency
* Ch. 2. Recruiting Asian Americans with the Right Stuff
* Ch. 3. Morale Operations and Talking Their Way into Japan
* Ch. 4. Fighting Like a Man, Special Operations Style
* Ch. 5. The Long and Short of Spying for Research and Analysis and
Secret Intelligence
* Ch. 6. Rescuing POWs, Countering Enemy Spies, and Encountering
Collaborators
* Ch. 7. Loyalty, Treason, and Asian Americans
* Epilogue: Unveiling the Trojan Horse
* Notes
* Selected Bibliography
* Index