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    The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
    The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
    The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
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    The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

    Written by Mary Jo McConahay

    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley

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    The Tango War by Mary Jo McConahay fills an important gap in World War II history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources of Latin America. The fight was often dirty: residents were captured to exchange for U.S. prisoners of war and rival spy networks shadowed each other across the continent. At all times it was a Tango War, in which each side closely shadowed the other's steps.

    Though the Allies triumphed, at the war's inception it looked like the Axis would win. A flow of raw materials in the Southern Hemisphere, at a high cost in lives, was key to ensuring Allied victory, as were military bases supporting the North African campaign, the Battle of the Atlantic and the invasion of Sicily, and fending off attacks on the Panama Canal. Allies secured loyalty through espionage and diplomacy-including help from Hollywood and Mickey Mouse-while Jews and innocents among ethnic groups-Japanese, Germans-paid an unconscionable price. Mexican pilots flew in the Philippines and twenty-five thousand Brazilians breached the Gothic Line in Italy. The Tango War also describes the machinations behind the greatest mass flight of criminals of the century, fascists with blood on their hands who escaped to the Americas.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781977389176
    The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

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    • 3/5
      To be fair, I'm not the person this book is written for, and I suspect that the general reader who is coming to the topic fresh will get a great deal out of it. That said. this is really a collection of journalistic vignettes rather than a coherent monograph, as McConahay tries to link wartime policy and action with continuing memory in the relevant countries, with varying degrees of success. For myself, the stories of the American system of forced internment of "dangerous" individuals being extended to Central and South America made my blood boil, and are arguably the best portions of the book.
    • 4/5
      So often when learning about WWII we focus on and study the war in Europe or on the Pacific. But it is called a World War for a reason: the majority of the world was involved, not just the US, Europe, and Japan. The Tango War was one of the first looks I got into what was going on in Latin America during WWII. It is informative and interesting. Highly recommend for all history buffs.