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Asian American spies : how Asian Americans helped win the Allied victory / Brian Masaru Hayashi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayashi, Brian Masaru, 1955- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Asian American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States.
- United States--Office of Strategic Services--History.
- United States.
- United States. Office of Strategic Services--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York State : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'Asian American Spies' is a study of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services. The text challenges the Asian American Minority stereotype that they are all loyal citizens by showing Asian Americans on both sides of World War II and shows that Euroamerican leaders of the intelligence agency understood race as not a fixed concept.
- Contents:
- Creating an Inclusive, Centralized Intelligence Agency
- Recruiting Asian Americans with the Right Stuff
- Morale Operations and Talking Their Way into Japan
- Fighting Like a Man, Special Operations Style
- The Long and Short of Spying for Research Analysis and Secret Intelligence
- Rescuing POWs, Countering Enemy Spies, and Encountering Collaborators
- Loyalty, Treason, and Asian Americans
- Epilogue: Unveiling the Trojan Horse.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-971343-X
- 0-19-009285-8
- 0-19-009286-6
- OCLC:
- 1242022129
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