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The Zimmermann Telegram

Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I

By: Thomas Boghardt

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The Zimmermann Telegram

Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I

By: Thomas Boghardt

By the winter of 1916/17, World War I had reached a deadlock. While the Allies commanded greater resources and fielded more soldiers than the Central Powers, German armies had penetrated deep into Russia and France, and tenaciously held on to their conquered empire. Hoping to break the stalemate on the western front, the exhausted Allies sought to bring the neutral United States into the conflict. A golden opportunity to force American intervention seemed at hand when British naval intelligence intercepted a secret telegram detailing a German alliance offer to Mexico. In it, Berlin’s foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, offered his country’s support to Mexico for re-conquering “the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona” in exchange for a Mexican attack on the United States, should the latter enter the war on the side of the Allies. The British handed a copy of the Telegram to the American government, which in turn leaked it to the press. On March 1, 1917, the Telegram made headline news across the United States, and five weeks later, America entered World War I. Based on an examination of virtually all available German, British, and U.S. government records, this book presents the definitive account of the Telegram and questions many traditional views on the origins, cryptanalysis, and impact of the German alliance scheme. While the Telegram has often been described as the final step in a carefully planned German strategy to gain a foothold in the western hemisphere, this book argues that the scheme was a spontaneous initiative by a minor German foreign office official, which gained traction only because of a lack of supervision and coordination at the top echelon of the German government. On the other hand, the book argues, American and British secret services had collaborated closely since 1915 to bring the United States into the war, and the Telegram’s interception and disclosure represented the crowning achievement of this clandestine Anglo-American intelligence alliance. Moreover, the book explicitly challenges the widely accepted notion that the Telegram’s publication in the U.S. press rallied Americans for war. Instead, it contends that the Telegram divided the public by poisoning the debate over intervention, and by failing to offer peace-minded Americans a convincing rationale for supporting the war. The book also examines the Telegram’s effect on the memory of World War I through the twentieth century and beyond.

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Naval Institute Press

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The Zimmermann Telegram

Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I

By: Thomas Boghardt

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U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

By: Thomas Boghardt

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U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

By: Thomas Boghardt

Based on extensive archival research in six countries and intensive fieldwork, the book analyzes the history of the village of Nkholongue on the eastern (Mozambican) shores of Lake Malawi from the time of its formation in the 19th century to the present day. The study uses Nkholongue as a microhistorical lens to examine such diverse topics as the slave trade, the spread of Islam, colonization, subsistence production, counter-insurgency, decolonization, civil war, ecotourism, and matriliny. Thereby, the book attempts to reflect as much as possible on the generalizability and (global) comparability of local findings by framing analyses in historiographical discussions that aim to go beyond the regional or national level. Although the chapters of the book deal with very different topics, they are united by a common interest in the social history of rural Africa in the longue durée. Contrary to persistent clichés of rural inertia in Africa, the book as a whole underscores the profound changeability of social conditions and relations in Nkholongue over the years and highlights how people’s room for maneuver kept changing as a result of the Winds of History, the frequent and often violent ruptures brought to the village from outside.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110988550

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Bibliographical Analysis

A Historical Introduction

By: G. Thomas Tanselle

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Bibliographical Analysis

A Historical Introduction

By: G. Thomas Tanselle

Studying printed books as physical objects can reveal not only how books were produced, but also how their design and layout features emerged and came to convey meanings. This concise and accessible introduction to analytical bibliography in its historical context explains in clear, non-specialist language how to find and analyze clues about a book's manufacture and how to examine the significance of a book's design. Written by one of the most eminent bibliographical and textual scholars working today, the book is both a practical guide to bibliographical research and a history of bibliography as a developing field of study. For all who use books, this is an ideal starting point for learning how to read the object along with the words.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139480154

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The Industry of Evangelism

Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg

By: Drew B. Thomas

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The Industry of Evangelism

Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg

By: Drew B. Thomas

This monograph examines the rise of the Wittenberg printing industry and analyses how it overtook the Empire’s leading print centres.

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BRILL

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9004462422

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9789004462427

Strategic Narratives, Ontological Security and Global Policy

Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

By: Thomas Colley,Carolijn van Noort

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Strategic Narratives, Ontological Security and Global Policy

Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

By: Thomas Colley,Carolijn van Noort

Strategic Narratives, Ontological Security and Global Policy provides a pathbreaking account of why some states successfully convince others to join their policy initiatives, and why others fail. Examining China’s Belt and Road Initiative and COVID-19, Thomas Colley and Carolijn van Noort argue that strategic narratives can help persuade states to join global policy initiatives if they convincingly promise audiences material gain while avoiding undermining their ontological security. They make their case by analysing eight diverse countries: India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, the Maldives, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA. Theoretically novel and global in scope, this book provides a compelling explanation of how strategic narratives can help achieve the global policy coordination needed to confront vital challenges in contemporary international relations. The proposed strategic narrative buy-in framework is applicable to many global policy issues, be it promoting trade and infrastructure projects, mitigating climate change or managing pandemics.

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Springer Nature

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3031008529

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Somewhere in France

The World War I Letters and Journal of Private Frederick A. Kittleman

By: Thomas J. Schaeper

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Somewhere in France

The World War I Letters and Journal of Private Frederick A. Kittleman

By: Thomas J. Schaeper

The United States entered World War I in April 1917, and by the end of the conflict two million American soldiers were fighting on French soil. One of them was Private Frederick A. Kittleman, who was born in the small city of Olean in western New York. After being drafted in 1918, Kittleman was sent to France as a part of an artillery regiment. While overseas, he participated in several of the large battles in the final stages of the war, including the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Throughout this time, he wrote regularly to his family. In Somewhere in France, Thomas J. Schaeper transcribes these letters, which show a young man proud to join the army and excited about his adventures. The letters are contrasted with Kittleman's journal, which recounts the gritty details of battle that he shielded from his family in their correspondence. Schaeper provides detailed annotations of the journal and letters, which, together with a number of illustrations, paint a vivid picture of the experiences of a private in WWI, his opinion on America's participation in the final, bloody campaigns of the war, and the psychological and physical effects that the war had on him.

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State University of New York Press

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1438463774

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Declassified

50 Top-secret Documents that Changed History

By: Thomas B. Allen

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Declassified

50 Top-secret Documents that Changed History

By: Thomas B. Allen

Presents a collection of some top-secret documents - taken from museum and archive collections around the world. Chapters in this title include: Secrets of War; The Art of the Double-Cross; Spy vs Spy; A Bodyguard of Lies; Espionage Accidents; In Defense of the Realm; and, The Secret State.

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National Geographic Books

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1426202229

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U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

By: Thomas Boghardt

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110988763

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Spies of the Kaiser

German Covert Operations in Great Britain During the First World War Era

By: T. Boghardt

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Spies of the Kaiser

German Covert Operations in Great Britain During the First World War Era

By: T. Boghardt

Spies of the Kaiser examines the scope and objectives of German covert operations in Great Britain before and during the First World War. It assesses the effect of German espionage on Anglo-German relations and discusses the extent to which the fear of German espionage in the United Kingdom shaped the British intelligence community in the early Twentieth-century. The study is based on original archival material, including hitherto unexploited German records and recently declassified British documents.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403932484

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The Zimmermann Telegram

The Zimmermann Telegram

The Zimmermann Telegram

The Zimmermann Telegram

U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

Bibliographical Analysis

Bibliographical Analysis

The Industry of Evangelism

The Industry of Evangelism

Strategic Narratives, Ontological Security and Global Policy

Strategic Narratives, Ontological Security and Global Policy

Somewhere in France

Somewhere in France

Declassified

Declassified

U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

Spies of the Kaiser

Spies of the Kaiser

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