{"product_id":"gold-warriors-isbn-9781844675319","title":"Gold Warriors","description":"In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This ‘Black Gold’ gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America’s allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years.“The reader will walk away from this book astounded and outraged at the immensity of the fraudulent activities that the world’s governments, banks, and spies are engaged in. \u003ci\u003eGold Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e is chilling in its accumulation.”—\u003ci\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Easily the best guide available to the scandal of Yamashita’s gold.”—\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One is swept up in the high intensity story the Seagraves tell.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Seagraves have uncovered one of the biggest secrets of the twentieth century.”—Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking\u003cb\u003ePeggy Seagrave \u003c\/b\u003ewas the senior researcher and picture editor at Time-Life Books. Along with Sterling Seagrave, she is a co-author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eLords of the Rim\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Yamato Dynasty\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSterling Seagrave\u003c\/b\u003e was a reporter for the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e before becoming a freelance investigative journalist contributing to T\u003ci\u003eime, Life, Atlantic Monthly,\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eFar Eastern Economic Review. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Soong Dynasty \u003c\/i\u003eas well as other books, and with Peggy Seagrave he co-authored the bestselling \u003ci\u003eLords of the Rim\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Yamato Dynasty\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301843325157,"sku":"NP9781844675319","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844675319.jpg?v=1767728286","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/gold-warriors-isbn-9781844675319","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}