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Shadow enemies : Hitler's secret terrorist plot against the United States / Alex Abella & Scott Gordon.

Title: Shadow enemies : Hitler's secret terrorist plot against the United States / Alex Abella & Scott Gordon.
Author: Abella, Alex.
Publication: Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Gordon, Scott.

Description

xiv, 320 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-282) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Authors' note -- Four lucky porcupines -- This is what we Germans are supposed to do -- Friendly sea -- Franz Daniel Pastorius -- Welcome in America -- Dinner with the Yugoslav ambassador -- Wholesome and desirable safeguard to civil liberty in a time of war -- Halls of justice -- Meeting at the farm -- Invaders or refugees? -- We're here to help! -- Writings from Sugar Hill -- Plaques, condos, and porcupines -- Appendices : William Dudley Pelley and his Silver Shirt Legion ; Material and evidence ; Ex parte quirin ; German and Italian detention and internment in World War II ; Operation Pastorius : fifty-six days in America.

ISBN

158574722X

LCCN

^^2004299518

OCLC

51554856
SCSB-11195906

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Harvard Library