Heribert von Feilitzsch grew up in Germany, only yards from the East German border, the "Iron Curtain." In 1988 he came to the United States as a student. Fascinated with the Mexican-American border, he pursued a Masters Degree in Latin-American History with focus on the Mexican Revolution at the University of Arizona. The Mexican-American border, devoid of self-shooting machines and mine fields, still constitutes a barrier that divides two cultures, two distinct national identities, and creates a complicated economic and political framework worth studying. While pursuing a business career in later years and adding an MBA from Wake Forest University, he remained committed to writing about the Mexican-American border. After twenty years of painstaking original research in the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, von Feilitzsch published four books on the German secret service in North America between 1908 and 1917. Felix A. Sommerfeld and the Mexican Front in the Great War has won the Independent Publisher’s Award Silver Medal in 2016. Several of his books have been translated into Spanish. He frequently lectures in the United States, Europe and Mexico. He lives on a farm in Northern Virginia with his wife and children.