The Secret War on the United States in 1915 by Heribert Von Feilitzsch

The Secret War on the United States in 1915 by Heribert Von Feilitzsch

The Secret War Council, Germany's spy organization in New York, received orders from Berlin to stop the flow of munitions through terrorism in January 1915. German agents in the U.S. firebombed freighters on the high seas, incited labor unrest, fomented troubles along the Mexican-American border, and damaged or destroyed dozens of American factories and logistics installations. The German secret war against the United States in 1915, its discovery and publication, combined with the disastrous sinking of the Lusitania in May of that year, did much to prepare the American public to finally accept joining the Entente powers against Germany in 1917. This is the story of a group of German agents in the United States, who executed this mission.

Heribert von Feilitzsch grew up in Germany, only yards from the East German border, the Iron Curtain. In 1988 he came to the United States as a student. Fascinated with the Mexican-American border, he pursued a Masters Degree in Latin-American History with focus on Mexican-German-American relations at the University of Arizona. The Mexican-American border, devoid of self-shooting machines and mine fields, still constitutes a barrier that divides two cultures, two distinct national identities, and creates a complicated economic and political framework worth studying. While pursuing a business career in later years and adding an MBA from Wake Forest University, he remained committed to writing about the Mexican-American border. After twenty years of painstaking original research in the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, von Feilitzsch authored four books on the German naval intelligence agent Felix A. Sommerfeld and the German secret service in the United States between 1914 and 1917. He lives on a farm in Northern Virginia with his wife and children.

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ISBN 13	9780985031770
ISBN 10	0985031778
Title	The Secret War on the United States in 1915
Author	Heribert Von Feilitzsch
Series	The Secret War Council
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Henselstone Verlag LLC
Year published	2015-03-25
Number of pages	386
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