| Personal Name |
Kuehn, Christine, 1963- author.
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| Title Statement |
Family of spies : a World War II story of Nazi espionage, betrayal, and the secret history behind Pearl Harbor /|cChristine Kuehn.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Celadon Books, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
x, 259 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 25 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
"Don't say anything" -- The secret -- "In the darkness, the two led the attack on Pearl Harbor" -- Crafting a Nazi spy -- Falling under the spell -- The crash -- Payback -- A chance encounter -- "They just vanished!" -- Bushido: "The way of the warrior" -- The world's thirty greatest women spies -- Special agent in charge -- Hell was heading to paradise -- Bag of tricks -- The warning was clear -- The final days -- December 7, 1941: X-Day -- Captured -- Behind the barbed wire -- "I assumed we would be executed" -- The trial -- The verdict -- The submarine saboteurs -- "Arrangements will be made for an early execution" -- "Rescue Eberhard for me!" -- Nowhere to go -- The reckoning -- Reconciling.
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| Summary, Etc. |
A "never-before-told story of one family's shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It began with a call from a screenwriter, asking about a story. Your family. World War II. Nazi spies. Christine Kuehn was shocked and confused. When she asked her seventy-year-old father Eberhard what this could possibly be about, he stalled, deflected, demurred, and then he wept. He knew this day would come. The Kuehns, a once-prominent Berlin family, saw the rise of the Nazis as a way out of the hard times that had befallen them. When the daughter of the family, Eberhard's sister Ruth, met Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels at a party, the two hit it off, and they had an affair. But Ruth had a secret--she was half Jewish--and Goebbels found out. Rather than having Ruth killed, Goebbels instead sent the entire Kuehn family to Hawaii, to work as spies half a world away. There, Ruth and her parents established an intricate spy operation from their home, just a few miles down the road from Pearl Harbor, shielding Eberhard from the truth. They passed secrets to the Japanese, leading to the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. After Eberhard's father was arrested and tried for his involvement in planning the assault, Eberhard learned the harsh truth about his family and faced a decision that would change the path of the Kuehn family forever. Jumping back and forth between Christine discovering her family's secret and the untold past of the spies in Germany, Japan, and Hawaii, [this] is fast-paced history at its finest, and [may] rewrite the narrative of December 7, 1941"--|cProvided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Kuehn, Otto, 1895-1955
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Kuehn, Otto, 1895-1955.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Kuehn family.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spies Biography. Japan
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
German Americans Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Germans Biography. Hawaii
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nazis Biography. Germany
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Intelligence officers Biography. Germany
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Espionage, Japanese History 20th century. Hawaii Pearl Harbor
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