2017 MJCCA Book Festival: MacArthur's Spies by Peter Eisner & Hitler in Los Angeles by Steven Ross

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MacArthur’s Spies by Peter Eisner

Award-winning foreign correspondent and bestselling author Peter Eisner tells the thrilling story of espionage and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War II.

On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by U.S. forces. Manila was a strategic port and a romantic American outpost. Tokyo saw its conquest of the Philippines as the key in its plan to control all of Asia, including Australia. Thousands of soldiers surrendered and were sent on the notorious eighty-mile Bataan Death March. But thousands of other Filipinos and Americans refused to surrender and hid in the Luzon hills above Bataan and Manila. MacArthur's Spies is the story of three of them, and how they successfully foiled the Japanese for more than two years, sabotaging Japanese efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur’s return.

Hitler in Los Angeles by Steven Ross

Acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross tells the chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in LA and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited to stop it. No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations: plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast. 

Community Partner: Georgia Commission on the Holocaust