Witness to the Twentieth Century.
Witness to the Twentieth Century
Theodore McNelly
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Witness to the Twentieth Century: The Life Story of a Japan Specialist is the autobiography of a life lived between multiple languages and cultures. Author Theodore McNelly (professor emeritus at the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to: - University of Maryland, College Park, a research-extensive and flagship university; when the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to this school
at College Park) tells of his recruitment by the U.S. Signal Intelligence Service during World War II, where he translated secret communications Secret Communications was a radio broadcasting company formed by the April 1994 merger of Booth American Comapay and Broadcast Alchemy. The firm was headed by venture capitalist Frank Wood, who said the name "Secret" was created as a joke, and was eventually acquired by Jacor, and of the Japanese military; his daily life as an intelligence analyst in MacArthur's staff in Tokyo; his career as a teacher of political science at overseas American military bases; and the postwar developments he observed in England, France, Germany, Japan and Korea. Written with scholar's rigor rigor /rig·or/ (rig´er) [L.] chill; rigidity.
rigor mor´tis the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers. , disseminating the author's life events and scholarly projects as meticulously as any historical study, Witness to the Twentieth Century is a highly insightful personal view of the repercussions repercussions npl → répercussions fpl
repercussions npl → Auswirkungen pl of world-spanning changes.
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