My Account Wish List
Advanced Search
Print - Close Window
www.greenwood.com/catalog/C35328.aspx
All Greenwood Products
Treason on the Airwaves Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War II
Judith Keene
Foreword by István Deák
Book Code: C35328
ISBN: 0-313-35328-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35328-4
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2008
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 12/30/2008)
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
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 virulent anti-Semite who was a member of a highly respected and well-connected British family, joined Hitler's propagandists in Berlin. He was executed for treason by Britain after the war. Charles Cousens, a popular radio personality at home in Australia, was a soldier in Japanese captivity. He was put to work on Radio Tokyo creating English language shortwave programs with a team of Allied prisoners of war. Cousens was later tried as a traitor in Australia. Iva Toguri, better known as "Tokyo Rose," was an American student visiting relatives in 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 three 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, providing an overview of the way in which each country dealt with suspected collaborators after the war. The author demonstrates, too, the significance of radio propaganda during World War II and the techniques the Germans and Japanese used to engage listeners and command a significant audience.
The stories of these broadcasters mark some of the most famous treason trials in Britain, Australia, and the United States. The decisions of the three--each of whom who made a choice between patriotism and survival--helped shape modern-day treason trials. This work sets Amery, Cousens, and Toguri in their family and social contexts to show the choices that were available to them and how they became part of the enemy's endless cycle of propaganda. All three accounts provoke thoughtful questions as to the nature of justice--and the justice of retribution.
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
LC Card Number: 2008033451
LCC Class: D810
Dewey Class: 940
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2008 Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881, (203) 226-3571