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OSS Operation Black Mail is the story of a remarkable woman who
fought World War II on the front lines of psychological warfare.
Elizabeth "Betty" P. McIntosh spent eighteen months serving in the
Office of Strategic Services in what has been called the "forgotten
theater," China-Burma-India, where she met and worked with
characters as varied as Julia Child and Ho Chi Minh. Her craft was
black propaganda, and her mission was to demoralize the enemy
through prevarication and deceit, and ultimately, convince him to
surrender. Betty and her crew ingeniously obtained and altered
personal correspondence between Japanese soldiers and their
families on the home islands of Japan. She also ordered the killing
of a Japanese courier in the jungles of Burma to plant a false
surrender order in his mailbag. By the time Betty flew the Hump
from Calcutta to China, she was acting head of the Morale
Operations branch for the entire theater, overseeing the production
of thousands of pamphlets and radio scripts, the generation of
fiendishly clever rumors, and the printing of a variety of faked
Japanese, Burmese, and Chinese newspapers. Her strategy involved
targeting not merely the Japanese soldier but the man within: the
son, the husband, the father. She knew her work could ultimately
save lives, but never lost sight of the fact that her propaganda
was a weapon and her intended target the enemy. This is not a
typical war story. The only beaches stormed are the minds of an
invisible enemy. Often a great deal of time and effort was expended
in conception and production, and rarely was it known if even a
shred reached the hands of the intended recipient. The process was
opaque on both ends: the origin of a rumor or radio broadcast
obscured, the target elusive. For Betty and her friends, time on
the "front lines" of psychological warfare in China-Burma-India
rushed by in a cascade of creativity and innovation, played out on
a stage where a colonial world was ending and chaos awaited.
Teddy Powers is trying to live a normal 6th grade life after his
family moves to Charleston, South Carolina. There's just one
problem. His new classmates tell him that weird, unexplainable
things have happened through the years to kids who have been in the
house his parents just bought. Some got rich. Some got lucky. But
some - like six-year-old Jack Everett who lived in the house in
1944 - disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. Rumor
was, it all had to do with some powerful stones hidden somewhere
deep inside the house. It's not long before Teddy and his sisters,
Emmy and Gracie, discover the powerful stones and begin using them
against their parents, classmates, teachers and each other. It's
all fun and games until the stones are stolen into a dark, menacing
future world, and the Stone Keepers - a club of those given powers
by the stones over the last hundred years - show up to demand some
answers. Can Teddy steal back the stones before everyone's power is
lost? Or will he remain forever trapped in time?
By beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and
compassion, Combined Destinies invites readers to look at how white
Americans have been hurt by the very ideology that their ancestors
created. Editors Ann Todd Jealous and Caroline T. Haskell, both
experienced psychotherapists skilled at facilitating dialogue about
racial issues, are cognizant of the challenges that even the
thought of such conversations often presents. Their book is based
on the premise that for positive and lasting change to occur,
hearts as well as minds must be opened. This courageous anthology
posits that unearned privilege has damaged the psyche of white
people as well as their capacity to understand racism. Drawing on
the intimate stories of diverse contributors, Combined Destinies is
organized thematically, with individual chapters focusing on topics
such as guilt, shame, silence, and resistance. The book includes an
extensive reader's guide, posing questions for discussion
pertaining to each chapter and offering readers a chance to explore
their own experiences.
This courageous anthology posits that unearned privilege has
damaged the psyche of white people as well as their capacity to
understand racism. Using intimate stories, some from writers who
have never before spoken of these highly charged issues, Jealous
and Haskell offer readers a chance to explore their own
experiences. Anyone who is interested in mental health and
spiritual healing would benefit from reading this book, but it’s
especially suitable for teachers, professors, students, social
activists, members of community groups, therapists, clergy, and
other members of the counselling profession.
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