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McConahay, Mary Jo, author.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Latin America.
Latin America -- History -- 1898-1948.
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The tango war : the ...
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The tango war : the struggle for the hearts, minds and riches of Latin America during World War II / Mary Jo McConahay.
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McConahay, Mary Jo, author.
New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945 -- Latin America.
Latin America -- History -- 1898-1948.
ISBN:
9781250091239 (hardcover) :
1250091233 (hardcover)
Description:
xiv, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
The prizes. The fight for Southern skies -- Black gold, oil to fuel the war -- White gold, the story of the rubber soldiers -- The undesirables. "Where they could not enter" : Jewish lives -- Nazis and not Nazis, in the land of the white butterfly -- In Inca country, capturing "Japanese" -- Inmates, a family affair -- The illusionists. Seduction -- Spies, masters of spies -- Operation Bolívar, German espionage in South America -- The warriors. The battle of the Atlantic : Southern seas -- Smoking cobras -- The end without an end. Ratlines -- Connections, the Cold War.
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"The gripping and little known story of the fight for the allegiance of Latin America during World War II The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources of Latin America. The fight was often dirty: residents were captured to exchange for U.S. prisoners of war and rival spy networks shadowed each other across the continent. At all times it was a Tango War, in which each side closely shadowed the other's steps. Though the Allies triumphed, at the war's inception it looked like the Axis would win. A flow of raw materials in the Southern Hemisphere, at a high cost in lives, was key to ensuring Allied victory, as were military bases supporting the North African campaign, the Battle of the Atlantic and the invasion of Sicily, and fending off attacks on the Panama Canal. Allies secured loyalty through espionage and diplomacy--including help from Hollywood and Mickey Mouse--while Jews and innocents among ethnic groups --Japanese, Germans--paid an unconscionable price. Mexican pilots flew in the Philippines and twenty-five thousand Brazilians breached the Gothic Line in Italy. The Tango War also describes the machinations behind the greatest mass flight of criminals of the century, fascists with blood on their hands who escaped to the Americas. A true, shocking account that reads like a thriller, The Tango War shows in a new way how WWII was truly a global war"--
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Kailua Public Library
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940.538 Mc
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