The Horseshoe Curve: Sabotage and Subversion in the Railroad City

In this riveting book, Dennis P. McIlnay brings history alive with the stunning tale of three inter-connected, but little known, events in American history: The Nazi plot during World War II to destroy the Horseshoe Curve, the Mecca of American railroading near Altoona, Pennsylvania. The FBI's search of the homes of 225 Altoonans on July 1, 1942 as "alien enemies" — suspected Nazi sympathizers — and the internment by the United States of 15,000 German and Italian Americans. The personal and organizational drama of founding the Pennsylvania Railroad and building the Horseshoe Curve.