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Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War And The Hunt For The First Terrorist Cell In America (2014)

by Howard Blum(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

006230755X (ISBN13: 9780062307552)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Harper

review 1: Have read many times about Germany's attempts to prevent the US from supplying the Britian and France in WW1. This book details the depths of the German efforts lead by the German ambassador to the US! Author Blum tells of the efforts of Captain Tom Tunney's of the New York City Police Department and his small squad of detectives to thwart the German sabatouge efforts and the German plans to wage chemical war on the US population and the animals being supplied to the Allies. The Federal government had almost non existant law enforcement divisions to stop the Germans. Thus, Capt. Tunney and the NY Police almost single handed stopped the Germans The book is complete with lots of colorful participants on both sides. Dark Invasion at times reads like fiction. It is hard to ... morebelieve some of the German "schemes" to stem the US's assistance to the Allies. A well written book that holds you in suspence like a novel would!! Highly recommended for the history buff on a chapter of US history that is not well known. Very enlighting.
review 2: 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 based explosions that were going on. Woodrow Wilson's staff were beside themselves with frustration in his not wanting to believe that a "civilized" nation could commit such acts. I did think it was fitting that the doctor who was cultivating glanders and anthrax should in the end die of the Swine Flu that swept the globe during WWI. less

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