A World On Fire: An Epic History Of Two Nations Divided
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846142048 (1846142040)
Publish date: November 1st 2010
Publisher: Allen Lane
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
American,
War,
Politics,
American History,
Military History,
Civil War,
American Civil War,
European History
When I purchased this book over a year ago, I sensed that I would be undertaking an Olympian journey because there is much about the history of the American Civil War than meets the eye at first glance. The story of Anglo-American relations during this period is a very complex and complicated one. I...
This long book about the British impact on the American Civil War follows the lives, motivations and impacts of so many people there is a thirteen page cast of characters, but I was mesmerized. In the preface Amanda Foreman writes that she treats all of the significant and many of the more minor ind...
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