Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America, (Paperback)

from irregularreader

I won this book in a GoodReads first reads giveaway.While this is a subject I had known next to nothing about prior to reading the book, I am always in the lookout for an engaging historical narrative, and Dark Invasion provided an entertaining read.The book's focus is fairly narrow, focusing mai...

from yvonne.sevignykaiser

Fascinating account of the first case of terrorism in American history, and it was not September 11, 2011. Woodrow Wilson, a pacifist and our president was attempting to keep us out of the war that was beginning in Europe. A war that began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As t...

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Apart from the 1916 explosion at the Black Tom munitions plant in New Jersey, a surprisingly minor part of this book, German covert operations in America during World War One have largely been forgotten. They included attempted assassination, physical and economic sabotage, and even biological wa...

from rlsalvati

Fascinating, I had no idea Germany had so many active agents in the US before and during WWI

from lisa.schureman

This book reads like fast-paced fiction and I didn't want to put it down. I knew about the RMS Lusitania of course and the plot to have Mexico invade the United States as part of Germany's war strategies but I wasn't aware of the assassination attempt on J.P. Morgan, all the ship bombs, and land ...