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Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914-1917. Jules Witcover. An account of the circumstances and of the German plotting that surrounded the sabotage explosion at the Black Tom ammunition and explosives terminal in New York Harbor on Sunday morning, July 30, 1916. The explosion blew out glass on the buildings on the east side, strewed shrapnel onto the Statue of Liberty and damaged everything within a mile around on the New Jersey waterfront. A neglected slice of history.
NC (Chapel Hill): Algonquin, 1989. 1st edition. 339 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Like new, no ownership marks. 1 copy only.
