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(EBOOK> Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the SecondWorld War PDF(EBOOK> DoubleCrossed: TheMissionaries WhoSpied for the UnitedStates During theSecond World WarPDFDescription'Arresting and informative.... Double Crossed is a great read and a fresh, archive-intensivecontribution to our understanding of American intelligence during World War II.'â€•WashingtonPost'Not only a profound history of American Christian missions but also one of the most originaland interesting histories of World War II in several decades.'â€•Christianity Today'Sutton coversnew territory in his interesting endeavor, as the work of the four has largely been secret until now.Readers will be fascinated by his revelations.'â€•Booklist'Recommended for scholars of World War II and religious history, and the history of espionage, aswell as general readers interested in the intersection of American history and Christianity.'â€•Library Journal'Sutton's research is impressive, his writing is clear, and his account isexhaustive.... Sutton rescues a crucially important story that raises profound questions regardingthe relationship between God and country.'â€•Kirkus'This provocative book illuminates littlediscussedhistory and raises larger philosophical questions. It is an unusually fresh and intelligentaddition to WWII literature.'â€•Publishers Weekly'Deeply-researched and engagingly written,Matthew Sutton's Double Crossed fills a gap in the literatures on 20th century secret-intelligenceand the Second World War. Shinning a light on the cross-and-dagger intrigues of Protestantmissionaries who spied against the Axis, Sutton shows how they helped lay some of the moral andeven diplomatic foundations for what we now call globalization. This is both an adventure storyand an important contribution to the emerging study of religion as a handmaiden of 20th-centurysecular power.'â€•Mark Riebling, author ofChurch of Spies: The Pope's Secret War AgainstHitler'In this absorbing book, Matthew Sutton skillfully and effortlessly guides his reader throughthe life-and-death clandestine operations of the United States' missionary-spies: bible-believingspooks who, during WWII, grappled internally with the contradictions of faith and violence, deeplove of family, and patriotic duty but who never shied away from advancing the Allied cause -- nomatter the cost. Double Crossed is an authoritative and highly revealing account of a (purposely)hidden facet of church-state collusion in modern America.'â€•Darren Dochuk, author ofAnointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America'Double Crossed tellsan astonishing and heretofore unknown story of the Christian missionaries and religious activistswho doubled as American spies during World War II. Although their wartime scheming oftenconflicted with their religious principles, the work of the four men profiled here -- whose covert
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