Bill Mills

Agent of the Iron Cross (eBook, ePUB)

The Race to Capture German Saboteur-Assassin Lothar Witzke during World War I

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Publishers Weekly: "Devotees of cloak-and-dagger intrigue will revel in this thrilling and complex account." On January 16th Witzke and several confederates departed Mexico City for the U.S. border. After crossing 1500 miles of rugged territory, encountering bandits and other hazards along the way, Witzke reached Nogales. But unknown to the saboteur-assassin, the German espionage network in Mexico had been penetrated by Allied intelligence and one of his companions was a double agent. The Witzke mission was the intelligence game played at its highest level - a plan for destruction on a massive scale, violent insurrection, and assassination, complete with master spies and double agents, diabolical sabotage devices, secret codes, and invisible ink. Meticulously researched and written in the style of an adventure novel, Agent of the Iron Cross is the first detailed account of this legendary espionage operation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538182079
• Artikelnr.: 67973482

Autorenporträt

Bill Mills writes about twentieth-century clandestine operations and espionage history. He is the author of The League: The True Story of Average Americans on the Hunt for World War I Spies, Treacherous Passage: Germany's Secret Plot Against the United States in Mexico during World War I, and The Estrada Plot: How the FBI Captured a Secret Army and Stopped the Invasion of Mexico. He lives in Concord, MA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1 Escape from Valparaiso
2 The Most Deadly Sabotage Team in History
3 "You Will Have to Kill Him First. He's in Our Way."
4 "I Am Mr. Butcher's Man!"
5 "Get Down and Hang On!"
6 Placed Together, the Two Scraps of Paper Read: "novia"
7 Crossing the Line
8 Breaking the Code
9 The Court-Martial of Lothar Witzke
10 The Jailbreak of Lothar Witzke
11 "Every Activity Is to Be Suspended . . ."
Notes
Bibliography
Index