Description
About the Author
Charles Priestley retired after 35 years as an international communication trainer. He is a long-standing member of the American Civil War Round Table (United Kingdom) and lives in Oxfordshire.
Reviews
"These essays display the author's prodigious talent for uncovering the fascinating details of an unusual cast of characters most readers will encounter for the first time, Prince Polignac, the dashing French volunteer for the Confederacy. William Lewis Dayton, Lincoln's ill-fated ambassador to France who fell dead at his mysterious lover's sofa in Paris. William Yancey, the Confederacy's rough-hewn envoy to Great Britain, and many other extraordinary figures. Charles Priestley has strung these gems together in a dazzling book that owes much to his talent for research and an irrepressible curiosity that readers will find infectious."-Don H. Doyle, McCausland Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina, author of The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
"This is a book that breaks new ground on American Civil War history. It is thoroughly documented and well written. I highly recommend it!"-Norman C. Delaney, PhD, the Naval Institute's Author of the Year for 2010, author of John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama and The Maltby Brothers' Civil War
"Charles Priestley's fascinating study presents a rogues' gallery of the semi-heroic and quixotic, all of whom believed that right was on their side. Drawing on a wide range of sources, all politics, Priestley shows, are personal, even-and perhaps especially-when it comes to foreign countries."-Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire: The Epic History of Two Nations Divided.
Book Information
ISBN 9781476687094
Author Charles Priestley
Format Paperback
Page Count 277
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 151g