Description: 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 1/4Language : EnglishHardcover : 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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Book Series: Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United
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Original Language: English
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Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
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Pages: 336
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Type: Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Era: 2000s
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Features: Dust Jacket, Ex-Library, Illustrated
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Book Title: Shadow Enemies : Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States
Item Length: 9.2in.
Item Width: 6.2in.
Author: Scott Gordon, Alex Abella
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Europe / Germany, Military / World War II, Terrorism
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2003
Genre: History, Political Science
Item Weight: 23.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 336 Pages