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As the Great Warfare raged over the trench-lined battlefields of Europe, a hidden discord occurred in the distant hinterlands of the turbulent Mexican Republic. German officials and secret-service operatives plotted to bring conflict to america through an array of strategies and strategies, from training a German-Mexican military for a cross-border invasion, to dispatching saboteurs to disrupt American industry, and planning for submarine bases on the western coast of Mexico. Bill Mills explains to the true story of the most audacious of these procedures: the German storyline to start clandestine sea raiders from the Mexican port of Mazatlán to disrupt Allied merchant delivery in the Pacific. The system led to a desperate have difficulties between German and American secret providers in Mexico. German consul Fritz Unger, the director of a powerful trading house, plotted to secure a salvaged Mexican gunboat to supply U-boats functioning off Mexico also to seize a hapless tramp schooner to help hunt Allied merchantmen. Unger's attempts were opposed with a colorful array of individuals, including a trusted member of the German secret service in Mexico who was simply also the very best American spy, the US State Department's older officer in Mazatlán, the hard-charging commander of the navy gunboat, and a draft-dodging American informant in the adversary camp. Filled with drama and intrigue, Treacherous Passing is the first complete accounts of the daring German efforts to raid Allied delivery from Mexico in 1918. The e book is publicized by College or university of Nebraska Press.
