Insidious foes : the Axis Fifth Column and the American home front / Francis Macdonnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonnell, Francis, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subversive activities--United States--History--20th century.

Subversive activities.

Espionage--United States--History--20th century.

Espionage.

World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

Spies--United States--History--20th century.

Spies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The study explores "the case of national jitters" that occurred in the United States in the years 1938 to 1942 following rumours of the existence of a German Fifth Column movement. It relates how both government and citizens exaggerated what was actually a modest German effort.

Contents:

1. Prelude to the Fifth Column Scare: The Lessons of World War I

2. Dangerous Demagogues, Men on Horseback, and Native Fascists

3. The Opening Alarm: The Rumrich Spy Case

4. Other Fifth Columns: Italy, the Soviet Union, and Japan

5. "Perfidious Albion": Great Britain and the Fifth Column

6. The Fifth Column in Europe

7. Keeping the Panic Alive: German Propaganda, Espionage, and Sabotage in the United States

8. Franklin Roosevelt and the Fifth Column

9. J. Edgar Hoover versus the Nazis.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771393-9

0-19-987991-5

1-280-44184-4

0-19-535775-2

1-60256-004-8

OCLC:

191933443