Felix A. Sommerfeld and the Mexican Front in the Great War
Publisher: Henselstone Verlag LLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amissville, Virginia, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780985031732
Copyright date: 2015
Notes: The German government decided in the fall of 1914 to corner the U.S. arms and ammunition market to the detriment of England and France. In New York German Military Attaché Franz von Papen and Naval Attaché Karl Boy-Ed could not think of anyone more effective and with better connections than Felix A. Sommerfeld to sell off the weapons and ammunition to Mexico. A few months later, Sommerfeld received orders to create a border incident. Tensions along the U.S. - Mexican border suddenly increased in a wave of border raids under the Plan de San Diego. When Pancho Villa attacked the town of Columbus, NM, on March 9, 1916, virtually the entire regular U.S. Army descended upon Mexico or patrolled the border. War seemed inevitable. Federal agents could not prove it, but suspected German involvement. Felix A. Sommerfeld and fellow agents had forced the hand of the U.S. government through some of the most intricate clandestine operations in the history of World War I.
Table of contents: label: Table of Contents
title: i; label: List of Photos and Illustrations
title: iii; label: Acknowledgments
title: v; label: Cast of Characters
title: ix; label: Prologue
title: xvii; label: Chapter 1: A Man with Pedigree
title: 1; label: Chapter 2: Sommerfeld, Villa, and Franklin W. Olin
title: 9; label: Chapter 3: Sommerfeld, Boy-Ed and von Papen
title: 27; label: Chapter 4: Diplomacy and War in Mexico
title: 35; label: Chapter 5: Junta “X”
title: 69; label: Chapter 6: Twenty-Seven Million Cartridges
title: 95; label: Chapter 7: And the Winner is…
title: 125; label: Chapter 8: “An Enraged Rooster”
title: 165; label: Chapter 9: Flirting with Disaster
title: 193; label: Chapter 10: War Crisis
title: 227; label: Epilogue
title: 247; label: Endnotes
title: 251; label: Bibliography
title: 303; label: Index
title: 333