Let My Country Awake
On Sale 10/28/25
"...a compelling and little-known story...a fascinating prism through which we see the wartime machinations of Germany, Britain, and the United States―and it all comes together in a made-for-Hollywood trial."
―Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's GPS and author of Age of Revolutions
On the eve of World War I, a band of Indian immigrants living in the United States hatched an audacious plan to liberate their homeland from British colonial rule. From a headquarters in San Francisco, the Ghadar movement recruited thousands of laborers and academics via its underground newspaper and sent hundreds of freedom fighters across the Pacific in an attempt to smuggle guns and seditious literature into India.
With the world descending into global war, the movement quickly became a geopolitical flash point abetted by German spies and tracked by Britain’s intelligence service, each side keen to undermine a wartime adversary, all while the US Department of Justice desperately tried to figure out what was going on. The result was one of the longest trials to date, culminating in a courtroom gun battle that shocked the nation.
Scott Miller’s Let My Country Awake tells the story of this overlooked moment in Indian—and American—history, offering a new perspective on the struggle against colonialism while raising a question that resonates still: What does it mean to be American?
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About the Author
Scott Miller is the author of two previous books: The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century and Agent 110: The American Spymaster and the German Resistance. As former foreign correspondent for the The Wall Street Journal and Reuters, Scott spent nearly two decades in Asia and Europe, reporting from more than twenty-five countries. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Karen, and their Labrador retriever, Lucy.
Other Titles
Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century