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SECRET WAR IN SHANGHAI: AN UNTOLD STORY OF ESPIONAGE, INTRIGUE, AND TREASON IN WORLD WAR II
by Wasserstein, Bernard
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends & bottom corner else a bright & solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else bright, intact & whole. FOLCAS 9/23; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Shanghai during World War II was a killing field of brutal competition, ideological struggle, and murderous political intrigue. China's largest and most cosmopolitan city, the intelligence capital of the Far East, was a magnet for a corrupt and bizarrely colorful group of men and women drawn to the "Paris of the East" for its seductive promise of high living and easy money. Political and sexual loyalties were for sale to the highest bidder. Allied and Axis agents, criminal gangs, and paramilitary units under various flags waged secret, savage warfare. Espionage, lurid vice, subversion, and crime came together in a lethal concoction. Nowhere on earth was the twilight zone between politics and criminality better exemplified than in this glittering and dangerous place. Secret War in Shanghai is the first book-length account of the little-known story of Shanghai in the war years. The widely respected historian Bernard Wasserstein has researched it entirely from original sources and uncovered startling new evidence of collaboration and treason by American, British, and Australian nationals. This remarkable depiction of complicity and betrayal is history at its most exciting and surprising.
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- JB's Book Vault
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6022
- Title
- SECRET WAR IN SHANGHAI: AN UNTOLD STORY OF ESPIONAGE, INTRIGUE, AND TREASON IN WORLD WAR II
- Author
- Wasserstein, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Wasserstein, Secret, War, Shanghai, China, Espionage, Military History, World War 2, Asian History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History; Asian History; Cold War & Espionage;
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