Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot A Dual Biography
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 98.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
29.05.2014
Abbildungen
72 BW Photos, 2 Tables
Verlag
Rowman & LittlefieldSeitenzahl
530
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2.8 cm
Gewicht
759 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4422-3205-1
Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Trapped in Tokyo during the war and forced to broadcast on Japanese radio, Toguri nonetheless refused to renounce her U.S. citizenship and surreptitiously aided Allied POWs. Despite these patriotic actions, she foolishly identified herself to the press after the war as Tokyo Rose. This book assembles for the first time a collection of images from American pre-war popular culture that provided impetus for the legend. It explains how the wartime situation of servicemen caused their imaginations to create the mythical femme fatale even though no Japanese announcer ever used the name Tokyo Rose. Further, in spite of the fact that there was only one rather innocuous broadcast by a woman between December 1941 and April 1942, a news correspondent with the U.S. Navy reported in April 1942 that sailors in the Pacific theater routinely listened to Tokyo Rose's propaganda.
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