The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: German Agents, American Traitors, and the U-Boat Deutschland During World War I

by Dwight R. Messimer

Book Overview

By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic. The solution to the former was to find a way over, through, or under it. Aircraft in those days were too primitive, too short range, and too underpowered to accomplish this, and Germany lacked the naval strength to force a passage through the blockade...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591141842
• ISBN13: 9781591141846
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"