A Story Goes with It - Softcover

"A Story Goes With It," a shotgun wedding of fact and fiction, tells one version of the tale of the Nazi saboteurs who landed here in America, in both Florida and Long Island, early in 1942. An almost comic and slapstick disaster from beginning to nearly the end, Operation Pastorius, as the Nazis named it, nevertheless came very close to succeeding, in large part because the American authorities reacted with equal ineptitude and matching inefficiency. Ending, seriously enough, with a dubious military tribunal and the prompt execution of all but two of the saboteurs, this story (among other things) demonstrates the inevitable vulnerability of large and complex modern societies to acts of terrorism. Partly based on research by the late John Edward Weems, author and editor, "A Story Goes With It" also adds a fictional but highly probable component to the known facts of this unusual event in our nation's history.