The Zimmermann Telegram Av Barbara Tuchman

<p><b>ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME </b><br><br><i>Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .</i><br><br>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.<br><br>But this message was intercepted and decoded in Whitehall''s legendary Room 40 - and Zimmerman''s audacious scheme for world domination was exposed, bringing America into the war and changing the course of history.<br><br><b>The story of how this happened, and the incalculable consequences are thrillingly told in Barbara Tuchman''s brilliant exploration.</b></p>