Burn, Bomb, Destroy: The German Sabotage Campaign in North America, 19141917 [Paperback]

...a fascinating tale of international intrigue, geopolitics, divided loyalties, and criminal investigations during wartime.  New York Journal of BooksMany believe that World War I was only fought over there, as the popular 1917 song goes, in the trenches and muddy battlefields of Northern France and Belgiumthey are wrong.There was a secret war fought in America; on remote railway bridges and waterways linking the United States and Canada; aboard burning and exploding ships in the Atlantic Ocean; in the smoldering ruins of America's bombed and burned-out factories, munitions plants, and railway centers; and waged in carefully disguised clandestine workshops where improvised explosive devices and deadly toxins were designed and manufactured. It was irregular warfare on a scale that caught the United States woefully unprepared.This is the true story of German secret agents engaged in a campaign of subversion and terror on the American homeland before and during World War I.The true story of German secret agents engaged in a campaign of subversion and terror in the United States before and during World War I.First book to show quite how false the belief that World War I was fought over there in the mud of France and Belgium.Explains how the bomb designs used by German agents were adopted by anarchists and criminal bombers long after the war.The author brings his experience and knowledge as a former detective and bomb disposal officer to this topic. ...a fascinating tale of international intrigue, geopolitics, divided loyalties, and criminal investigations during wartime. ...an excellent overview of the tangled web of German espionage in the US. Using historical records and other sources ranging from pre-World War I through the 21st century, Digbys book is a compelling narrative about people involved in German-inspired events to keep America out of World War I. Digby has made a very valuable addition to the scholarship on the subject... Digby introduces the l£Œ