Lincoln's Spymaster - Couverture souple

Milton, David Hepburn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811736903 ISBN 13 : 9780811736909

Editeur : Stackpole Books, 2017

Synopsis

The Civil War conjures images of blood-soaked battlefields in the United States. Few are aware of the equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest that raged between the North and South in Europe. While the Confederacy quickly sought the approval of Great Britain as a strategic ally, the Union utilized diplomacy and espionage to avert both the construction of a Confederate navy and the threat of war with England. At the forefront of the international fray was Thomas Haines Dudley, the American Consul in Liverpool, and “the father of modern American intelligence.” As the Confederates determined to utilize British shipyards, Dudley swiftly established a network of agents throughout England to report on enemy activities. Neither a blockade runner nor a warship secretly under production escaped Dudley’s scrutiny.
Author David Hepburn Milton expertly tells the story of the historically neglected Thomas Haines Dudley and his web of agents. Lincoln’s Spymaster documents the victorious combination of Northern diplomacy, intelligence gathering, and mass mobilization of British public opinion that negated foreign intervention in the American Civil War.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Hepburn Milton is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author of The Politics of U.S. Labor: From the Great Depression to the New Deal. He and his wife, Nancy Dall Milton, co-authored The Wind Will Not Subside: Years in Revolutionary China 1964-1969, cited in the New York Times best books of the year list, 1976. He also co-edited the Random House China Reader: People's China.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stackpole Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811736903
• ISBN 13: 9780811736909
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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