Gold Warriors - America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold

Zusatztext “The reader will walk away from this book astounded and outraged at the immensity of the fraudulent activities that the world’s governments! banks! and spies are engaged in. Gold Warriors is chilling in its accumulation.”— Counterpunch “Easily the best guide available to the scandal of Yamashita’s gold.”— London Review of Books “One is swept up in the high intensity story the Seagraves tell.”— Publishers Weekly “The Seagraves have uncovered one of the biggest secrets of the twentieth century.”—Iris Chang! author of The Rape of Nanking Informationen zum Autor Peggy Seagrave was the senior researcher and picture editor at Time-Life Books. Along with Sterling Seagrave, she is a co-author of the bestselling Lords of the Rim and The Yamato Dynasty . Sterling Seagrave was a reporter for the Washington Post before becoming a freelance investigative journalist contributing to T ime, Life, Atlantic Monthly, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He is the author of The Soong Dynasty as well as other books, and with Peggy Seagrave he co-authored the bestselling Lords of the Rim and The Yamato Dynasty . Klappentext An engrossing and well-researched account of the secret history of Yamashita's gold during and after WW2. Zusammenfassung Traces more than half a century of secret collaboration between Washington and Tokyo! between the CIA and the underworld in Japan and other countries. This book reveals how former CIA and Pentagon officials! and rogue entrepreneurs! use secret funds to set up private intelligence and security operations to meddle in American foreign policy.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Badiou, Jason Barker, Peggy Seagrave, Sterling Seagrave, Seagrave Peggy, Seagrave Sterling
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2005
• EAN: 9781844675319
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-531-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book; USA, Japan, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Military / United States, International Relations, General & world history, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), General and world history, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General