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Treason on the Airwaves Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War II
Judith Keene
ISBN: 0-313-35328-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35328-4
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2008
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: This work traces the extraordinary journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters in Germany and Japan whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States. John Amery, a member of a well-connected British family, joined Hitler's propagandists in Berlin. He was executed for treason by Britain after the war. Charles Cousens was a soldier in Japanese captivity when he was put to work on Radio Tokyo with a team of Allied POWs. Cousens was later tried as a traitor in Australia. Iva Toguri, better known as Tokyo Rose, was an American student visiting Japan when war broke out. She broadcast her English show on Radio Tokyo out of necessity rather than conviction. The United States jailed Toguri for treason. Through these powerful stories, this work not only sheds new light on the history of wartime radio broadcasting in Germany and Japan, but also examines the laws of treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States and the ways in which trials such as these helped shape modern-day treason trials. All three accounts provoke thoughtful questions as to the nature of justice—and the justice of retribution. This work traces the extraordinary journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters in Germany and Japan whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States.
Table of Contents:
  • PREFACE
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    ABBREVIATIONS
    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
    INTRODUCTION
    BROADCASTING TO BRITAIN FROM WARTIME BERLIN
    C1: THE EXECUTION OF THE BRITISH TRAITOR: JOHN AMERY
    C2: LIFE IN THE AMERY FAMILY
    C3: JOHN AMERY BETWEEN THE WARS
    C4: GERMAN WARTIME BROADCASTING
    C5: AMERYS RECEPTION IN BRITAIN
    BROADCASTING TO AUSTRALIA & THE UNITED STATES FROM WARTIME TOKYO
    C6: JAPANESE WARTIME BROADCASTING
    C7: TOKYOS AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTER: CHARLES COUSENS
    C8: ALLIED POWS BROADCAST FROM JAPAN
    C9: POW FAMILIES LISTEN TO RADIO TOKYO
    C10: IVA TOGURI IN WARTIME JAPAN
    C11: LISTENING TO RADIO TOKYO AT THE PACIFIC FRONT
    C12: TRYING AN AUSTRALIAN TRAITOR: CHARLES COUSENS
    C13: IVA TOGURI AND THE TRIAL OF TOKYO ROSE
    EPILOGUE
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
About the Author: Judith Keene is Associate Professor of History and the Associate Dean of Post Graduate Research in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney. She teaches and writes on twentieth century cultural and political history and on European film history and is the author of Fighting For Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 (2001).
LCC Class: D810
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