A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Format: kindle
ASIN: B004J4WN2G
Publish date: June 28th 2011
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 8
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...