The Zimmermann Telegram, (Paperback)

from SeriousGrace

I can only imagine how popular this book must have been in its day. The First Great War was not a distant memory at the time of its publication. In fact, the events of World War I were probably sti...

from denmoir

Tuchman writes history like a novel and is always entertaining as well as informative. She also recognises that brevity is wit and does not overburden the story with detail. Her own with comes thro...

from rivkat

Chock full of pithy, judgmental descriptions of historical figures, this book tells the story of the intrigue that helped push the US into WWI, as a result of the Kaiser's attempt to recruit Mexico...

from addunn3

The author explores the events around the entry of the US into WWI. An intercepted telegram becomes the impetus to change President Wilson's mind and enter the war.

from Schmerguls

843 The Zimmermann Telegram, by Barbara W. Tuchman (read 20 Mar 1966) This is a very careful study of the amazing telegram which an official in the German Foreign Office sent to Mexico in 1917 and ...