In Time of War
Hitlers Terrorist Attack on America

It's difficult to rate this book because its title is so misleading. Don't get me wrong, the details of Operation Pastorius (the titular “terrorist attack”) are covered. However, this book is decidedly more constitutional law than military history/true tales of spycraft. It's about civil lib......more

This is a disturbing book to read. The main point of the book covers Hitler sending two groups of men to US shores via submarine in order to conduct sabatoge missions. Before this, I didn't know subs got that close to our shores. The men had no real desire to carry out the plans and one of them arra......more

Timely book. The first third was historical, discussing the eight German sabeteurs landed in NY and in Florida at the beginning of WW II. In the next third, O'Donnell discusses the parallels with the President Roosevelt decision to try them under a Military tribunal, and the precident that decision......more

5 stars for Importance and Thought-Provocation 2-1/2 stars for dry and artless narrative For those of us who were alarmed at the extra-judicial tendencies of Bush/Cheney in the name of a war on terror, and in light of Obama's own troubling excesses, this is a sobering dissection of a war tribunal micr......more

This book relates a story from WWII of Americanized Germans who Hitler sent to the US for sabatage missions. The teams were so Americanized that they turned themselves in and despsite promises from Hoover they were tried and six were sent to the chair. The decisions were all made by a very biased mi......more