Judith Keene

Treason on the Airwaves (eBook, PDF)

Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War II

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This work traces the extraordinary journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters in Germany and Japan whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States. John Amery, a member of a well-connected British family, joined Hitler's propagandists in Berlin. He was executed for treason by Britain after the war. Charles Cousens was a soldier in Japanese captivity when he was put to work on Radio Tokyo with a team of Allied POWs. Cousens was later tried as a traitor in Australia. Iva Toguri, better known as Tokyo Rose, was an American student visiting Japan when war broke out. She broadcast her English show on Radio Tokyo out of necessity rather than conviction. The United States jailed Toguri for treason. Through these powerful stories, this work not only sheds new light on the history of wartime radio broadcasting in Germany and Japan, but also examines the laws of treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States and the ways in which trials such as these helped shape modern-day treason trials. All three accounts provoke thoughtful questions as to the nature of justice-and the justice of retribution. This work traces the extraordinary journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters in Germany and Japan whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313353291
• Artikelnr.: 38208950

Autorenporträt

Judith Keene is Senior Lecturer of History at Sydney University.

Judith Keene is Associate Professor of History and the Associate Dean of Post Graduate Research in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney. She teaches and writes on twentieth century cultural and political history and on European film history and is the author of Fighting For Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION
BROADCASTING TO BRITAIN FROM WARTIME BERLIN C1: THE EXECUTION OF THE
BRITISH TRAITOR: JOHN AMERY C2: LIFE IN THE AMERY FAMILY C3: JOHN AMERY
BETWEEN THE WARS C4: GERMAN WARTIME BROADCASTING C5: AMERYS RECEPTION IN
BRITAIN BROADCASTING TO AUSTRALIA & THE UNITED STATES FROM WARTIME TOKYO
C6: JAPANESE WARTIME BROADCASTING C7: TOKYOS AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTER:
CHARLES COUSENS C8: ALLIED POWS BROADCAST FROM JAPAN C9: POW FAMILIES
LISTEN TO RADIO TOKYO C10: IVA TOGURI IN WARTIME JAPAN C11: LISTENING TO
RADIO TOKYO AT THE PACIFIC FRONT C12: TRYING AN AUSTRALIAN TRAITOR: CHARLES
COUSENS C13: IVA TOGURI AND THE TRIAL OF TOKYO ROSE EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY