TY - BOOK ID - 77864391 TI - Insidious foes : the Axis Fifth Column and the American home front PY - 2023 SN - 1280441844 0195357752 1602560048 9781602560048 9780195357752 9780195092684 0195092686 9781280441844 9786610441846 6610441847 0195092686 0199879915 0197713939 9780199879915 PB - New York ; Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Subversive activities KW - Espionage KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Spies KW - Agents, Secret KW - Intelligencers (Spies) KW - Operatives (Spies) KW - Secret agents KW - Spooks (Spies) KW - Spying KW - Secret service KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77864391 AB - The study explores "the case of national jitters" that occurred in the United States in the years 1938 to 1942 following rumours of the existence of a German Fifth Column movement. It relates how both government and citizens exaggerated what was actually a modest German effort. ER -