""I want to bring home to our people the gravity of the situation; because I want to tell them that the military and naval power of the German Empire is unbroken; that of the twelve million men whom the Kaiser has called to the colours but one million, five hundred thousand have been killed, five hundred thousand permanently disabled, not more than five hundred thousand are prisoners of war, and about five hundred thousand constitute the number of...

In the tense and uncertain years before the Second World War, Jimmy Nessheim, a young Special Agent in the fledgling FBI, is assigned to infiltrate a new pro-Nazi German-American organization known as the Bund which is conspiring to sabotage American efforts against Adolf Hitler. But as he penetrates the heart of the Bund, it becomes clear that something far more sinister is at work - something that seems to lead directly to the White House.

An unknown story of an unlikely hero--the U.S. consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come.come.

"In the last days of November 1941, Nazi Germany's strategic situation was ambiguous: her armies were in possession of most of continental Europe and fighting deep inside the USSR, but the momentum of the Wehrmacht's war machine appeared to be spending itself. In relation to the numbers of U-boats available, sinkings had been dropping since June; her surface fleet was unlikely to pick up the slack, since it had just had fuel restrictions imposed on...

Overview: In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of production-especially in iron and coal, which formed the basis of modern industrial civilization. He also touted America's superiority in the field of...