A World on Fire
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
A history of the American Civil War in terms of British involvement. Extensive involvement.
Runs the gamut from discussing the soldiers from Great Britain's personal experiences to British newspapers and the efforts to propagandize in them. Battles are discussed before discussing their aftermath in reaction. And things like Antietam having, in a single day, produced as many American casualties as the British casualties of the entire Crimean War. One Englishman sent back word, after having walked over the battlefield within days, that some places were so riddled with bullets that it was hard to believe that anyone in that part of the field survived.
The affair of the Trent gets a lot of play, of course. The British were unhappy about the prospect of war because Canada would be conquered without much difficulty; the Americans, because the Navy could break up the blockade easily. And then the Alabama and the other ships.
And it touches on the British attempts to learn about the Monitor because it had been in the severest test of ironclads the world had ever seen.
There's a lot of information.
A history of the American Civil War in terms of British involvement. Extensive involvement.
Runs the gamut from discussing the soldiers from Great Britain's personal experiences to British newspapers and the efforts to propagandize in them. Battles are discussed before discussing their aftermath in reaction. And things like Antietam having, in a single day, produced as many American casualties as the British casualties of the entire Crimean War. One Englishman sent back word, after having walked over the battlefield within days, that some places were so riddled with bullets that it was hard to believe that anyone in that part of the field survived.
The affair of the Trent gets a lot of play, of course. The British were unhappy about the prospect of war because Canada would be conquered without much difficulty; the Americans, because the Navy could break up the blockade easily. And then the Alabama and the other ships.
And it touches on the British attempts to learn about the Monitor because it had been in the severest test of ironclads the world had ever seen.
There's a lot of information.