Book- Burn, Bomb, Destroy: The German Sabotage Campaign in North America, 1914–1917

"...a fascinating tale of international intrigue, geopolitics, divided loyalties, and criminal investigations during wartime." ―

New York Journal of Books

Many believe that World War I was only fought "over there," as the popular 1917 song goes, in the trenches and muddy battlefields of Northern France and Belgium—they are wrong.

There was a secret war fought in America; on remote railway bridges and waterways linking the United States and Canada; aboard burning and exploding ships in the Atlantic Ocean; in the smoldering ruins of America's bombed and burned-out factories, munitions plants, and railway centers; and waged in carefully disguised clandestine workshops where improvised explosive devices and deadly toxins were designed and manufactured.

It was irregular warfare on a scale that caught the United States

woefully unprepared.

This is the true story of German secret agents engaged in a campaign of subversion and terror on the American homeland before and during World War I.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The War Room

Chapter 2: First Target: The Welland Canal

Chapter 3: Bombing the Vanceboro Bridge

Chapter 4: The Cigar Bomb Plot

Chapter 5: A Gentleman Spy

Chapter 6: The Detroit Cell

Chapter 7: The Riverside Garage

Chapter 8: Swindlers, Scoundrels, and Saboteurs

Chapter 9: Bopp’s Gang

Chapter 10: TNT

Chapter 11: The American Front

Chapter 12: The Hoboken Bunch

Chapter 13: Black Tom Island

Chapter 14: The Munitions of War Conspiracy

Chapter 15: Dynamite Charlie

Chapter 16: Kingsland

Chapter 17: Declaration of War

264 pages.