Here for the first time is the incredible true story of one of Hitler's most diabolical plans: to wreak havoc and terror in America's cities through the hands of trained German agents. Not only an astonishing World War II story, this book examines questions relating to civil rights, justice, and how wartime necessity affects these central principles of American life. Photos.
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Here for the first time is the incredible true story of one of Hitler's most diabolical plans: to wreak havoc and terror in America's cities through the hands of trained German agents. Not only an astonishing World War II story, this book examines questions relating to civil rights, justice, and how wartime necessity affects these central principles of American life. Photos.
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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States by Alex Abella (Author), Scott Gordon (Author). HARDCOVER IN CELL WRAPPED DUST JACKET-EX-LIBRARY BOOK CONDITION... Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States by Alex Abella (Author), Scott Gordon (Author). HARDCOVER IN CELL WRAPPED DUST JACKET-EX-LIBRARY BOOK CONDITION GOOD THE LYONS PRESS-COPYRIGHT 2002-BOOK SIZE 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 La Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States by Alex Abella (Author), Scott Gordon (Author). HARDCOVER IN CELL WRAPPED DUST JACKET-EX-LIBRARY BOOK CONDITION GOOD THE LYONS PRESS-COPYRIGHT 2002-BOOK SIZE 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Language : English Hardcover : 320 pages. Recounts the landing of eight Nazi agents on Long Island on a mission of sabotage designed, like modern terrorism, to demoralize the civilian population, and discusses their arrest, trial, and conviction by military courts. In 1942, with Americans still on edge after Pearl Harbor, four German-American operatives disembarked from a U-boat and waded ashore, soon melting into the crowds of Manhattan, the first of several teams assigned to blow up manufacturing and transportation centers as well as Jewish-owned department stores in the United States. Novelist and journalist Abella (The Killing of the Saints) and Gordon, commissioner with the Los Angeles County Superior Court and a professor of law at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, depict a crew of would-be saboteurs with varying degrees of discipline, experience and dedication to the Nazi cause. Their leader, George Dasch, had lived in the U.S. as a boy, but had drifted from job to job without ever satisfying his grand ambitions. Returning to Germany, he joined the military and was eventually recruited for the terrorist mission in the U.S., despite his ambivalence toward Hitler's National Socialism. Realizing that the Allies would most likely win the war, Dasch eventually turned himself and his co-conspirators in to the FBI, with the thought of making himself a war hero. While the exploits of Dasch, his partners and their sympathetic contacts are fascinating, also engrossing is the U.S. government's handling of the ensuing court case. J. Edgar Hoover, closely involved, knew that his agency's reputation was at stake. President Roosevelt, concerned about the lack of control in a civilian trial, ordered a military tribunal, which eventually ordered the execution of many of the conspirators and several of their sympathizers. Dasch was returned to Germany after the war, where he was greeted as a traitor. By painting these sometimes reluctant and occasionally bumbling terrorists in such vivid detail, the authors have re-created timely and compelling series of events with an immediacy that hits close to home.
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-1. Signed by both Alex Abella & Scott Gordon on the half-title page with brief inscriptions to the previous owner. First Edition, first printing with full number line in near fine/ very good condition. The pages are clean and crisp, in like new condition, with no bent corners. Boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear, but otherwise the book is in excellent condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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