Sterling Seagrave

Peggy Seagrave

Reappraises the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and portrays a strong, complex woman struggling to keep her country from unraveling

The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China

Dragon Lady

A portrait of the world's longest-reigning dynasty offers a look at the shoguns, emperors, and financiers who have controlled Japan.

The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family

The Yamato Dynasty

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.

America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold

Gold Warriors

Die geheime Geschichte des japanischen Kaiserhauses.

Herrscher im Reich der aufgehenden Sonne.

Reappraises the initial depiction of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and portrays a strong, complex woman struggling to keep her country from unraveling

die geheime Geschichte des japanischen Kaiserhauses

Herrscher im Reich der aufgehenden Sonne

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 would be combined with treasure recovered inside Japan during the US occupation, and with Nazi loot recovered in Europe, to create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. Overseen by General MacArthur, President Truman, and John Foster Dulles, 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. Drawing on a vast range of original documents and thousands of hours of interviews, Gold Warriors exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century.

Peggy Seagrave

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