Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies: The Lincoln Foreign Policy, 1861-1865

by David Perry

Book Overview

In the first years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield; however, cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized the demographic and industrial weight pitted against them, and counted on British intervention to even those scales in order to deny the United States victory.

Bluff, Bluster Lies and Spies is a wild ride through the mismanaged State Department of William Henry Seward in Washington, DC, to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612003621
• ISBN13: 9781612003627
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Casemate
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"