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Far Eastern file : the intelligence war in the Far East, 1930-1945

Title
Far Eastern file : the intelligence war in the Far East, 1930-1945 / Peter Elphick.
Author
Elphick, Peter.
Publication
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1997.

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Description
xvii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Espionage > East Asia > History > 20th century
  • World politics > 1933-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service
  • Espionage
  • Secret service
  • World politics
  • Spionage
  • Geheimdienst
  • Geschichte 1930-1945
  • East Asia
  • Großbritannien
  • Ostasien
  • Südostasien
  • Pazifischer Raum
  • Ferner Osten
  • Singapur > Eroberung (1942)
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Map on lining papers.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 482-493) and index.
Contents
The rise of Japan -- Supreme in Eastern Asia -- The Japanese secret services -- Undercover operations in China in the 1930s -- Hong Kong, 1930-1941 -- 'The Paris of the East' -- Singapore, Malaya and Borneo, 1930-1939 -- The Far East combined bureau moves to Singapore -- 'Special' intelligence -- Japanese infiltration and Indian nationalism -- Subversion in the south -- Australian diplomatic intelligence in the Far East -- Inside Japan pre-war -- SS Automedon -- Shanghai : September 1939 to December 1941 -- Japan's build-up to the attack on the USA -- Countdown to the Japanese victory in Malaya -- The Far East Intelligence War, 1942 -- The Far East Intelligence War, 1943-1945 -- Conspiracy theories.
ISBN
  • 0340665831
  • 9780340665831
OCLC
  • ocm37794939
  • 37794939
  • SCSB-9542013
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library