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Jules Witcover
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Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret in America, 1914-1917 |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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339 |
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1989-05 |
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0912697989 |
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Algonquin Books |
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1.75 pounds |
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6.7 x 9.6 x 1.5 inches |
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First Edition |
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At eight minutes past two o'clock on the morning of Sunday, July 30, 1916, a thundering explosion at the Black Tom munitions depot sent sleeping residents of New York City and surrounding areas tumbling from their beds. In one terrifying, ear-splitting moment, the Great War then raging overseas had come to America.
In Sabotage at Black Tom, Jules Witcover draws on his skills as an investigative reporter to tell about one of the most fascinating and little-known episodes of World War I: how the Kaiser's agents-- Irish recruits bitter toward the British, and German-American sympathizers-- schemed to stop the flow of American armaments to the Allies.
Combing through documents at the National Archives and the Library of Congress for the full story. Witcover reveals an extensive undercover operation that committed nearly 200 acts of sabotage prior ro the U.S. entry into the war in 1917.
Even as the German ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, labored in public to keep President Woodrow Wilson on his chosen course of neutrality, saboteurs were planting ingenious pocket-sized bombs on outbound munitions ships and shore installations; converting an interned German ocean liner into a bomb factory; and smuggling anthrax and glanders bacteria into the United States, hiring stevedores to inoculate thousands of horses destined for Allied battlefields in Europe.
Just as fascinating as the story of this little known sabotage by German agents is Witcover's account of the long postwar search for conclusive proof of their complicity in the Black Tom explosion.
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