The Collaborators

By Ian Buruma,

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1 author picked The Collaborators as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

the intertwining of three amazing stories of collaborators in WW2 including Kawashima Yoshiko, a gender fluid Manchu princess, spied for the Japanese secret police in China, and was mythologized by the Japanese as a heroic combination of Mata Hari and Joan of Arc.

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