War is hell on the homefront too. So sang a talented country music star about the Second World War decades after its conclusion. This was perhaps nowhere truer than in the events recounted in this book.

Historians attest that World War Two was the biggest event in all of human history. Most of it was fought in North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. But at some point, every continent save Antarctica saw some form of combat. Though protected by two large oceans, North America was no exception.

Her Hawaiian, Aleutian, and Pacific Island possessions aside, America endured multiple attacks from Axis powers throughout the war. From the hundreds of trans-oceanic Japanese incendiary balloon bombs that rained down on the west coast to the almost continual German U-Boat attacks on Allied shipping up and down the east coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, America suffered her share of aggression and assault. All of this is well documented.

But what is not so well known is the number of clandestine attacks undertaken by Axis spies on the American homeland. What the Nazis could not accomplish by overt military tactics was attempted instead by covert methods.

One such attack took place in the summer of 1944 high in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. Only a brave band of local teenage boys who stumbled upon this nefarious plot stood in the way of Hitler's vision of bringing America to her knees, winning the war, and changing the outcome of human history in the process.