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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Secret War in Shanghai : an Untold Story of Espionage, Intrigue, and Treason in World War II
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Asia / China
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 22.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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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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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0395985374
ISBN-13
9780395985373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
752553
Product Key Features
Book Title
Secret War in Shanghai : an Untold Story of Espionage, Intrigue, and Treason in World War II
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Asia / China
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D810.S8w37 1999
Edition Description
Teacher's Edition
Reviews
"A richly documented and fascinating exploration of hundreds of the foreigners and secret agents who schemed and scrabbledin the turbulent city, as all pretense at law and order vanished." -- Jonathan Spence "A Byzantine web of subterfuge, human greed, survival and death is brilliantly recounted ... Wasserstein brings to vivid life a unique period of modern history within just eighteen square miles of what was--and is--one of the most thrilling, perplexing and enigmatic cities on earth." The Times of London "Wasserstein recounts this utterly enthralling chronicle with consummate skill, not to mention astonishingly comprehensive research. He brings to life with extraordinary clarity not only one of the most convoluted episodes of modern Chinese history, but also a cast of diverse, colorful characters and the Byzantine machinations of their lives in Shanghai, capturing with all the intensity of a blockbusting novelist the mood and intrigues of what was one of the great cities of the world." Far Eastern Economic Review, Wasserstein recounts this utterly enthralling chronicle with consummate skill, not to mention astonishingly comprehensive research. He brings to life with extraordinary clarity not only one of the most convoluted episodes of modern Chinese history, but also a cast of diverse, colorful characters and the Byzantine machinations of their lives in Shanghai, capturing with all the intensity of a blockbusting novelist the mood and intrigues of what was one of the great cities of the world., "A richly documented and fascinating exploration of hundreds of the foreigners and secret agents who schemed and scrabbledin the turbulent city, as all pretense at law and order vanished." -- Jonathan Spence, A Byzantine web of subterfuge, human greed, survival and death is brilliantly recounted ... Wasserstein brings to vivid life a unique period of modern history within just eighteen square miles of what was--and is--one of the most thrilling, perplexing and enigmatic cities on earth.
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-034411
Dewey Decimal
940.54/8751
Dewey Edition
21
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