Shadow Enemies : Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States

Abella, Alex and Gordon, Scott

Published by The Lyon Press, USA, 2002. ISBN 158574722X.

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"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, xiv/320pp, b&w photos. A little wear to edges of dw/boards, texta line on bottom edges of pages; a very good copy. The story of one of Adolf Hitler's most anbitious plans: to wreak havoc and terror in America's cities through the hands of carefully trained German agents whose goal was to sabotage manufacturing plants, cut off New York's water supply, and bomb train stations and Jewish-owned department stores. Follows this plan from the recruitment and training of the agents to their landing on the shores of New York and Florida and their successful infiltration into American society, and from there to the desperate attempts of the FBI to apprehend them before they could put their plans into effect. Presents an account that not only follows the unfolding of the plot, but also affords a glimpse of the motives and fears of a key member of the Nazi cell. Equally fascinating is the second part of the story. Fearful that a civilian jury might find the defendants innocent, Roosevelt ordered that, since the agents had been captured in the act of espionage during wartime, they had no civil rights and could therefore be tried by a hitherto unknown military tribunal. The resulting trial led to the execution of six of the eight conspirators only two months after their arrest.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shadow Enemies : Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States
• Publisher: The Lyon Press, USA, 2002. ISBN 158574722X.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included