Moe Berg (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Barbara Fitzgerald, Louis Kaufman, Tom Sewell
- First Published: 1974
- Time of Work: 1902–1972
- Setting: New Jersey, New York City, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, D.C., Boston, Japan, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Moe Berg, Bernard Berg, Rose Tashker Berg, Samuel Berg, Joe Cronin, Ted Lyons, General William Donovan, General Leslie R. Groves
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Education or educators, Linguistics or linguists, Military life or service, Baseball, Espionage or spies, Athletes, Biography
- Locales: Europe, United States, Japan, Great Britain
Form and Content
Louis Kaufman and Tom Sewell, both journalists, and Barbara Fitzgerald, a free-lance writer, open Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spy with an account of Berg’s 1934 trip to Japan with a team of major league baseball stars. Berg sneaked a motion-picture camera to the roof of a Tokyo hospital in order to photograph the panorama of the city. Eight years later, Berg’s film was used to help determine targets for American bombs. This mission was the first of several secret assignments that Berg undertook for the American government while playing baseball.
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