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ISBN
465052665
Publication Name
Basic Books
Book Title
Double Crossed : the Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Item Length
9.7in
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication Year
2019
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.5in
Author
Matthew Avery Sutton
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Religion, History, Political Science
Topic
Military / World War II, Christianity / History, Intelligence & Espionage, Espionage, Religious, Christianity / General
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild" Bill Donovan when he recruited religious activists into the first ranks of American espionage. Called upon to serve Uncle Sam, Donovan's recruits saw the war as a means of expanding their godly mission, believing an American victory would guarantee the safety of their fellow missionaries and their coreligionists abroad.Drawing on never-before-seen archival materials, acclaimed historian Matthew Sutton shows how religious activists proved to be true believers in Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Sutton focuses on William Eddy, a warrior for Protestantism who was fluent in Arabic; Stewart Herman, a young Lutheran minister rounded up by the Nazis while pastoring in Berlin; Stephen B. L. Penrose, Jr., who left his directorship over missionary schools in the Middle East to join the military rank and file; and John Birch, a fundamentalist missionary in China. Donovan chose these men because they already had the requisite skills for good intelligence analysis, espionage, and covert operations, skills that allowed them to seamlessly blend into different environments. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, they proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for their country during the conflict, becoming some of the United States' most loyal secret soldiers.Acutely aware of how their actions conflicted with their spiritual calling, these spies nevertheless ran covert operations in the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. In the end, they played an outsized role in leading the US to victory in WWII: Eddy laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, while Birch led guerilla attacks against the Japanese and, eventually, Chinese Communists. After the war, some of them -- those who survived -- helped launch the Central Intelligence Agency, so that their nation, and American Christianity, could maintain a strong presence throughout the rest of the world.Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is an untold story of World War II spycraft and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it.

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Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465052665
ISBN-13
9780465052660
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19038285526

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Book Title
Double Crossed : the Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Author
Matthew Avery Sutton
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Christianity / History, Intelligence & Espionage, Espionage, Religious, Christianity / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Religion, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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Item Length
9.7in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
D810.S7s887 2019
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"Deeply-researched and engagingly written, Matthew Sutton's Double Crossed fills a gap in the literatures on 20th century secret-intelligence and the Second World War. Shinning a light on the cross-and-dagger intrigues of Protestant missionaries who spied against the Axis, Sutton shows how they helped lay some of the moral and even diplomatic foundations for what we now call globalization. This is both an adventure story and an important contribution to the emerging study of religion as a handmaiden of 20th-century secular power."-- Mark Riebling , author of Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-006373
Dewey Decimal
940.5486730922
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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