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The Zimmermann Telegram

by Barbara W. Tuchman

  • FINISHED
  • Finished June 2023
  • First published 1958

history war

Tells how British codebreakers read a German message offering Mexico an alliance against the United States in 1917.   Tuchman shows how its publication helped push America into the First World War.

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