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|  | | Colonel Babcock's Moroccan Witchcraft Report
In 1921, Colonel Conrad Babcock, a US military attache in Paris, submitted an unusual report on Moroccan witchcraft to the Military Intelligence Division. The report contained folkloric recipes to avoid drowning, to make dogs cease barking, to break up a marriage, to make yourself invisible, etc. This mini-book describes Babcock and the background of his fascinating report.
In 1921, Colonel Conrad Babcock, assistant US military attache in Paris, submitted an unusual report on Moroccan witchcraft to the Military Intelligence Division in Washington. The colonel's report contained folkloric recipes to bless crops, to avoid drowning, to make dogs stop barking, to derail a marriage, to make yourself invisible, etc. This illustrated mini-book presents Colonel Babcock's fascinating report in its entirety, illustrated with period photographs of Morocco by Arnold Genthe, along with a short biography of Conrad Babcock and the background of his controversial research. | |  | | Japanese War Fantasy 1933
1933 techno-thriller written by a Japanese naval commander with forewords by 2 prominent Imperial Navy admirals, annotated and illustrated with period archival photos.
The book gave readers a foretaste of the strategy, tactics, and weaponry of the next world war and foretold roles of naval air power, submarines, radio communications, intelligence, civil affairs, propaganda, and racial unrest. The book foresees Japanese attacks on Guam, the Philippines and Hawaii. But Fukunaga’s most eye-opening revelations reveal Japanese strategists’ faulty expectations of an American enemy that supposedly lacked the will to fight.
After the book dropped onto Honolulu docks on December 7, 1933 (!), US Customs quietly confiscated Fukunaga's book—-prompted by concer | |  | | The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914-1922
World War I in Latin America was a war between intelligence services that entangled operatives from Germany, Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Canada, the U.S., Japan, Mexico, all Latin American republics and scores of exile and revolutionary groups. This book reveals tragedies, plots, coups, betrayals, gunfights and assassinations that changed the political landscape of the Americas during the world war and its aftermath.
World War I did not bypass Latin America. Within days of the war's outbreak, European belligerents mobilized intelligence assets and secret diplomacy to compete for Latin America's allegiances and resources. This intelligence war entangled all of the American republics and even Japan. Dreary consular offices from the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan were abruptly thrust into covert activities, trafficking in fugitives, running contraband and conducting sabotage. Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements, big oil, international banks and businesses were also drawn in. Drawing on lo | |  | | White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian
The Civil War in the Russian Far East lasted from the time of Lenin's November 1917 coup d'etat until 1922, yet has been neglected by Western historians. Bisher retraces all of the major events of this epic confrontation between Reds and Whites, and provides rare biographies and previously unpublished details about the foreign missions, volunteers and intervention armies.
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