The Zimmermann Telegram - America Enters the War, 1917-1918; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series (Paperback, 1st Ballantine Books trade ed)

"The Proud Tower, "the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Guns of August, "and" The Zimmermann Telegram" comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era
In January 1917, the war in Europe was, at best, a tragic standoff. Britain knew that all was lost unless the United States joined the war, but President Wilson was unshakable in his neutrality. At just this moment, a crack team of British decoders in a quiet office known as Room 40 intercepted a document that would change history. The Zimmermann telegram was a top-secret message to the president of Mexico, inviting him to join Germany and Japan in an invasion of the United States. How Britain managed to inform the American government without revealing that the German codes had been broken makes for an incredible story of espionage and intrigue as only Barbara W. Tuchman could tell it.
Praise for "The Zimmermann Telegram"
"A true, lucid thriller . . . a tremendous tale of hushed and unhushed uproars in the linked fields of war and diplomacy . . . Tuchman makes the most of it with a creative writer's sense of drama and a scholar's obeisance to the evidence."--"The New York Times"
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"The tale has most of the ingredients of an Eric Ambler spy thriller."--"Saturday Review"

General

Imprint:	Ballantine Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1985
First published:	March 1985
Authors:	Barbara W. Tuchman
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
Edition:	1st Ballantine Books trade ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-345-32425-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-345-32425-0
Barcode:	9780345324252

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