But as the war unfolded in Europe, an intercepted telegram sent by the German Foreign Secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the Mexican government inflamed the U.S. public opinion and was one of the ...

A specialist in the history of espionage and covert operations during the Great War, in The Zimmermann Telegram Boghardt gives us the first new book on this event since Barbara Tuchman’s treatment ...

On January 17, 1917, British intelligence had intercepted an encrypted telegram from German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann to Heinrich von Eckhardt, the German ambassador to Mexico.

Why was the Zimmermann Telegram so important? BBC - World War One At Home, Porthcurno, Cornwall: Cable Wars Cutting German cables was originally seen as primarily a way of denying the enemy the ...