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Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War II

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This is a fascinating book about a little discussed aspect of World War II. It talks about not just the military aspect of the issue, but the politics as well. This is a "must read" for those interested in radio propoganda.

This book is on the Rorotoko list. Professor Keene's interview on "Treason on the Airwaves" ran as the Rorotoko Cover Feature on May 2, 2011 (and can be read in the Rorotoko archive).

This is a fascinating read about three people who broadcast propaganda on Axis radio in World War Two. It is a lively story that lays out their biographies as well as the very different outcomes that citizens in Allied countries accused of treason faced after the war. John Amery, a Nazi sympathiser, was executed in London; Charles Cousens, a POW in captivity in Tokyo, faced a treason trial in Australia after the war; and Iva Toguri--better known as "Tokyo Rose"-- a Japanese-American caught in Tokyo at the time of Pearl Harbour, was tried and, according to the author, wrongly found guilty as a traitor and jailed in the United States.