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Secret War in Shanghai
Treachery, Subversion and Collaboration in the Second World War
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Artikel-Nr:
9781784537647
Veröffentl:
2017
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Bernard Wasserstein
Gewicht:
360 g
Format:
197x129x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Professor Bernard Wasserstein is now Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Formerly he was President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He is the author of many highly regarded general trade books. He was Dean of Studies at Brandeis University and a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize. Among his books are Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time and On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War. Wasserstein describes himself as a British historian.
In this classic account, Bernard Wasserstein draws on the files of the Shanghai Police as well as the intelligence archives of the many countries involved, to provide the definitive story of Shanghai's secret war. Bernard Wasserstein introduces the British, American and Australian individuals who collaborated with the Axis powers as well as subversive warfare operatives battling the Japanese - and one another. At times both shocking and amusing, this book lifts the lid on the bizarre underworld of the 'sin city of the Orient' during its most enthralling period in history.
"The paradise of adventurers", Shanghai during World War II was suffused with dangerous glamour. Racketeers, cutthroats and con-men jostled for advantage as secret agents of the great powers waged a complex and sinister struggle for power.