The Zimmermann Telegram
The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2016
Summary
Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born …
In January 1917, with the First World War locked in savage stalemate and America still neutral, German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman gambled the future of the conflict on a single telegram.
But, deep in Whitehall’s legendary Room 40, the message was intercepted and decoded. Zimmerman’s audacious scheme for world domination was exposed, bringing Am…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241968260 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241968267 |
| Author: | Barbara Tuchman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 17mm |
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A most exciting book, full of vivid pen portraits and curious episodes
A most exciting book, full of vivid pen portraits and curious episodes * Sunday Times *
As thrilling as a John Buchan novel * Times Literary Supplement *
Its 200 pages are worth more than all the thrillers and whodunits of the fiction writers put together * Herald *
A fine exciting book told with intense drama. A thriller of real life * Observer *
Brilliant. Told with great literary and dramatic talent * New York Times *
All the ingredients of an Eric Ambler spy thriller * Saturday Review *
Dazzling – Max Hastings on ‘Guns of August’
Magnificent. A masterpiece of the historian’s art – on ‘Guns of August’ * Guardian *
About The Author
Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and The Proud Tower are published by Penguin.
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