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Title: Treacherous Passage

Subtitle: Germany's Secret Plot Against the United States in Mexico During World War I

Author: Bill Mills

Narrator: David A. Nickerson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

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.

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 Mazatlán 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.

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 US State Department's senior officer in Mazatlán, the hard-charging commander of a navy gunboat, and a draft-dodging American informant in the enemy camp. Full of drama and intrigue, Treacherous Passage is the first complete account of the daring German attempts to raid Allied shipping from Mexico in 1918.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press.

Critic Reviews:

"A gripping story of espionage and intrigue that reminds us that World War I truly was a global war fought on many fronts." (Christopher Capozzola, author of Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen)

"This book is a revelation." (Alan Axelrod, author of Miracle at Belleau Wood and The Battle of Verdun)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

GREAT BOOK!

Fresh Light on Imperial Germanyâs Covert War Against the U.S

A summary of the review on StrategyPage.Com

'While working on "The League", his book about the Justice Departmentâs volunteer detectives in World War I, Mills came upon a curious incident involving a some German agents and the vessel Alexander Agassiz. Pulling the thread on that, he uncovered evidence of an elaborate German conspiracy against the United States that began well before America entered the war, an effort to recruit, with the help of Mexicoâs revolutionary leaders Venustiano Carranza and Plutarco Calles, a German-officered Mexican army to carry out an invasion of the United States. This effort also involved salving a wrecked Mexican gunboat for conversion into a commerce raider on the Pacific, munitions smuggling, sabotage, and more. The book is well populated with agents, double agents and possibly even triple agents, most notably the interesting and shadowy Paul Bernard Altendorf, and more. A lively read, "Treacherous Passage", although not yet the full story, is not only a good cloak and dagger tale, but also throws further light on the still-not fully documented German efforts to carry on covert operations against the United States during the Great War. '

For the full review, see StrategyPage.Com