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The Zimmermann Telegram
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Description for The Zimmermann Telegram
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJF; HBG; HBLW; HBWN; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 184.
Barbara Tuchman's The Zimmerman Telegram is one of the greatest spy stories of all time. Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . . In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and America still neutral, German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman gambled the future of the conflict on a single telegram. But this message was intercepted and decoded in Whitehall's legendary Room 40 - and Zimmerman's audacious scheme for world domination was ... Read more
Barbara Tuchman's The Zimmerman Telegram is one of the greatest spy stories of all time. Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . . In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and America still neutral, German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman gambled the future of the conflict on a single telegram. But this message was intercepted and decoded in Whitehall's legendary Room 40 - and Zimmerman's audacious scheme for world domination was ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241968260
SKU
V9780241968260
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About Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and ... Read more
Reviews for The Zimmermann Telegram
Magnificent. A masterpiece of the historian's art
on 'Guns of August'
Guardian
Dazzling
Max Hastings on 'Guns of August' All the ingredients of an Eric Ambler spy thriller
Saturday Review
Brilliant. Told with great literary and dramatic talent
New York Times
A fine exciting book told with intense drama. A thriller of ... Read more
on 'Guns of August'
Guardian
Dazzling
Max Hastings on 'Guns of August' All the ingredients of an Eric Ambler spy thriller
Saturday Review
Brilliant. Told with great literary and dramatic talent
New York Times
A fine exciting book told with intense drama. A thriller of ... Read more