Burn, Bomb, Destroy: The German Sabotage Campaign in North America

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Burn, Bomb, Destroy: The German Sabotage Campaign in North America

By: Digby, Michael

ISBN: 9781636240046

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"...a fascinating tale of international intrigue, geopolitics, divided loyalties, and criminal investigations during wartime." ― New York Journal of Books

Many 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 Belgium—they 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The War Room
Chapter 2: First Target: The Welland Canal
Chapter 3: Bombing the Vanceboro Bridge
Chapter 4: The Cigar Bomb Plot
Chapter 5: A Gentleman Spy
Chapter 6: The Detroit Cell
Chapter 7: The Riverside Garage
Chapter 8: Swindlers, Scoundrels, and Saboteurs
Chapter 9: Bopp’s Gang
Chapter 10: TNT
Chapter 11: The American Front
Chapter 12: The Hoboken Bunch
Chapter 13: Black Tom Island
Chapter 14: The Munitions of War Conspiracy
Chapter 15: Dynamite Charlie
Chapter 16: Kingsland
Chapter 17: Declaration of War