The detonators
Subtitle: the secret plot to destroy America and an epic hunt for justice
By: Chad Millman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780316734967
Subjects: Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany; World War, 1914-1918 -- New Jersey -- Black Tom Island; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- Germany; World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- United States; Espionage -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Sabotage -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Sabotage -- New Jersey -- Black Tom Island -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Claims vs. Germany; Germany -- Claims vs. United States
Genres: Claims vs. Germany.; Claims vs. United States.
First sentence: Heinrich Albert was forty years old, carried a briefcase, and worked in an office high above Broadway in one of downtown Manhattan's brand-new skyscrapers.
Description: The Americans and Germans set up the Mixed Claims Commission (MCC) to handle the dispensation of claims by Americans against the Germans for acts carried out during the war.  Two of the largest claims involved sabotage against an arms manufacturer and a shipping pier.  Although eventually settled in the claimants' favor, it took from the end of WWI to the start of WWII to resolve, and was resolved largely through growing disinterest on the part of the new German government to defend itself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xi; title: Cast of Characters
pagenum: xv; title: Part One
pagenum: 1; title: Chapter One
pagenum: 3; title: Chapter Two
pagenum: 18; title: Chapter Three
pagenum: 36; title: Chapter Four
pagenum: 49; title: Chapter Five
pagenum: 60; title: Chapter Six
pagenum: 77; title: Chapter Seven
pagenum: 88; title: Part Two
pagenum: 99; title: Chapter Eight
pagenum: 101; title: Chapter Nine
pagenum: 122; title: Chapter Ten
pagenum: 140; title: Chapter Eleven
pagenum: 155; title: Chapter Twelve
pagenum: 179; title: Chapter Thirteen
pagenum: 192; title: Chapter Fourteen
pagenum: 213; title: Chapter Fifteen
pagenum: 231; title: Chapter Sixteen
pagenum: 251; title: Chapter Seventeen
pagenum: 267; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 285; title: Source Notes
pagenum: 287; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 315; title: Index
pagenum: 319