@article{711169,
      recid = {711169},
      author = {Boghardt, Thomas.},
      title = {The Zimmermann telegram intelligence, diplomacy, and  America's entry into World War I / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Naval Institute Press,},
      address = {Annapolis, MD :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 319 p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {By the winter of 1916/17, World War I had reached a  deadlock. While the Allies commanded greater resources and  fielded more soldiers than the Central Powers, German  armies had penetrated deep into Russia and France, and  tenaciously held on to their conquered empire. Hoping to  break the stalemate on the western front, the exhausted  Allies sought to bring the neutral United States into the  conflict. A golden opportunity to force American  intervention seemed at hand when British naval intelligence  intercepted a secret telegram detailing a German alliance  offer to Mexico ...},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/711169},
}