Overview

Treason on the Airwaves traces the journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States. John Amery was a virulent anti-Semite and member of a highly respected British family who joined Hitler's propagandists in Berlin and was executed for treason after the war. Charles Cousens, a popular radio personality at home in Australia, was a soldier in Japanese captivity who was put to work on Radio Tokyo and later tried as a traitor. Iva Toguri, better known as ""Tokyo Rose,"" was an American student visiting relatives in Japan when war broke out. She broadcast her English-language show on Radio Tokyo out of necessity rather than conviction. The United States jailed Toguri for treason. These three powerful stories provide an overview of the way in which the three nations dealt with suspected collaborators after the war. Judidth Keene also examines the significance of radio propaganda during World War II and the techniques the Germans and the Japanese used to engage listeners. All three accounts provoke questions about the nature of justice-and the justice of retribution.

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Author:   Judith Keene ,  István Deák
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   Bison Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9780803232921

ISBN 10:   0803232926
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 September 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by István DeákPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPART 1: BROADCASTING TO BRITAIN FROM WARTIME BERLINChapter 1 - Execution of the British Traitor: John AmeryChapter 2 - Life in the Amery FamilyChapter 3 - John Amery between the WarsChapter 4 - German Wartime BroadcastingChapter 5 - Amery's Reception in BritainPART II: BROADCASTING TO AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED STATES FROM WARTIME TOKYOChapter 6 - Japanese Wartime BroadcastingChapter 7 - Tokyo's Australian Broadcaster Charles CousensChapter 8 - Allied POWs Broadcast from JapanChapter 9 - POW Families Listen to Radio TokyoChapter 10 - Iva Toguri in Wartime JapanChapter 11 - Listening to Radio Tokyo at the Pacific FrontChapter 12 - Trying an Australian Traitor: Charles CousensChapter 13 - Iva Toguri and the Trial of Tokyo RoseEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex 

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Exceptionally interesting. --Martin Rubin, Washington Post --Martin Rubin Washington Post (11/23/2010)

Exceptionally interesting. -Martin Rubin, Washington Post -- Martin Rubin Washington Post

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Exceptionally interesting. -Martin Rubin, Washington Post

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Judith Keene, an associate professor of history and the associate dean of postgraduate research in the faculty of arts at the University of Sydney, is the author of Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39. István Deák, Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, is the author of numerous books, including Essays on Hitler’s Europe (Nebraska 2001).

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