Citizen of the Shadows

“A monumental piece of work . . . an amazing accomplishment and a pleasure to read.” —David Michaelis, author of Eleanor , the bestselling biography of Eleanor Roosevelt One of the most notorious German spies of the twentieth century, Lothar Witzke lived a life that reads like a thriller. Convicted of espionage in 1918, he was the only German spy sentenced to death by the United States during World War I. After the war, he was pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge, only to be later accused of re