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by: Christopher Simpson
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5373
EAN: 9780020449959
ISBN: 002044995X
Label: Collier Books - Macmillan
Manufacturer: Collier Books - Macmillan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 398
Publication Date: 1989-08
Publisher: Collier Books - Macmillan
Sales Rank: 921550
Studio: Collier Books - Macmillan
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Rating:  - Now It Can Be Told
Everyone who cares about the future of the world needs this book! It's the truth about where the right wing during and after World War Two and shows how that whole era of 'America's greatest Generation' is slightly tarnished.
Rating: - The Hobo Philosopher
This is one of the first books that I picked up on the American government connection with Nazism. I found it for a dime at a flea market or something. When I was finished reading it, I still didn't believe it. Since that time I have gotten interested in "Who Financed Adolf Hitler" and why. This book deals more with the "why" part of the above question. Now that I have been researching on this subject for a number of years, I have very little doubt about the accuracy of the information contained ... Read More
Rating:  - A Fascinating Look at the Early Cold War
Christopher Simpson's Blowback is a scrupulously researched work about how the United States government, contrary to its stated policies, deliberately recruited a veritable army of former Nazis and collaborators in the years immediately after World War II. Acting principally through the CIA, these ex-Nazis and sympathizers were then used in our developing cold war against the former USSR, mostly without success, but always behind a veil of secrecy. And that's the theme of his work: in the name of ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful insight for the start of the Cold War
I have to say that this is a great examination of the inadvertent effects in American policy and ideology following the recruitment of Nazi intelligence officers. This book should be read not only by those interested in the origins of the Cold War, but also by those who want to study Operation Paperclip, the recruitment of Nazi scientists by the American government. This is not revisionist history, and it is not one of those quasi-historical books that try to sell themselves on a controversial and ... Read More
Rating: - Bring this book back in print!
It's a shame that Christopher Simpson's "Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War" has gone out of print. While portions of this book smack of revisionist history, the truth at the heart of it is nothing short of harrowing and infuriating. Most significantly, it's an important part of post-War American history that needs further discussion: the carte blanche treatment given to some of the Nazi party's worst war criminals in exchange for dubious (at best) information ... Read More
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