[ Sugihara Chiune : jōhō ni kaketa gaikōkan .] English

211 sider : illustratsjoner, kart

First English edition.

Originally published in Japanese as Chōhō no tensai Sugihara Chiune in 2011 by Shinchosha. Revised and expanded in 2015 as Sugihara Chiune: jōhō ni kaketa gaikōkan. 2015 version is the basis of this translation.. - The making of an intelligence officer -- The Manchurian government Foreign Affairs Department and the Chinese Eastern Railway -- The enigma of the Soviet visa refusal -- To the shores of the Baltic -- The Lithuanian intelligence network -- Solving the mystery of the visas for life -- Prague -- The true value of an outstanding diplomat -- Epilogue: regrets of an intelligence officer.. - "Sugihara Chiune was a diplomat who saved more than several thousand lives from the Nazis and U.S.S.R. during the second World War by issuing them with Japanese transit visas. Why was he able to continue handing out these "visas for life"? The man behind these actions was in fact an intelligence professional of rare caliber who, aware of the crisis confronting his nation early on, maintained a precarious balancing act as he traveled around war-torn Europe closely analyzing the global situation. The author, who has spent more than thirty years studying Sugihara, describes here for the first time the real person behind the diplomat and the truth behind the miraculous issue of those visas, based on his close study of documents in the voluminous archive of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of other historical sources. This nonfiction work is the tour de force of the Foreign Ministry's preeminent "treasure hunter."

Biografier : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01057

Japan - Foreign relations . - Japan - Soviet Union. - Relations . - Soviet Union - Japan. - Relations . - Japan : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01941. - Litauen : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02586. - Sovjetunionen : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03767. - Øst-Europa : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03707

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4866581743. - 9784866581743