{"product_id":"treacherous-passage-germanys-secret-plot-against-the-united-states-in-mexico-during-world-war-i-9781612348544","title":"Treacherous Passage: Germany's Secret Plot against the United States in Mexico during World War I","description":"\u003cp\u003e While the Great War raged across the trench-lined battlefields of Europe, a hidden conflict took place in the distant hinterlands of the turbulent Mexican Republic. German officials and secret-service operatives plotted to bring war to the United States through an array of schemes and strategies, from training a German-Mexican army for a cross-border invasion, to dispatching saboteurs to disrupt American industry, and planning for submarine bases on the western coast of Mexico. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bill Mills tells the true story of the most audacious of these operations: the German plot to launch clandestine sea raiders from the Mexican port of Mazatl?n to disrupt Allied merchant shipping in the Pacific. The scheme led to a desperate struggle between German and American secret agents in Mexico. German consul Fritz Unger, the director of a powerful trading house, plotted to obtain a salvaged Mexican gunboat to supply U-boats operating off Mexico and to seize a hapless tramp schooner to help hunt Allied merchantmen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Unger's efforts were opposed by a colorful array of individuals, including a trusted member of the German secret service in Mexico who was also the top American spy, the U.S. State Department's senior officer in Mazatl?n, the hard-charging commander of a navy gunboat, and a draft-dodging American informant in the enemy camp. Full of drama and intrigue, \u003ci\u003eTreacherous Passage\u003c\/i\u003e is the first complete account of the daring German attempts to raid Allied shipping from Mexico in 1918. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Mills\u003c\/b\u003e is an espionage writer and historian. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe League: The True Story of Average Americans on the Hunt for World War I Spies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Potomac Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856032567570,"sku":"9781612348544","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2aaa4060-4022-4b46-931b-a052ccc84ca3.jpg?v=1737493188","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/treacherous-passage-germanys-secret-plot-against-the-united-states-in-mexico-during-world-war-i-9781612348544","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}