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Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government - Softcover

Davis, William C.

 
9780156007481: Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0156007487 ISBN 13: 9780156007481
Verlag: Mariner Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled to achieve their own differing visions for the South: Jefferson Davis, the autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost; and the practical and warm General John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered remnants of the land he loved so dearly.
Noted historian William C. Davis traces the astounding flight of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet, from Richmond. Using original research, he narrates the futile quarrels of Davis and Breckinridge as they try to evade Northern pursuers and describes their eventual--and separate--captures. The result is a rich canvas of a time of despair and defeat, a charged tale full of physical adventure and political battle that sweeps from the marble halls of Richmond to a dingy room in a Havana hotel.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist, historian William C. Davis has written or edited more than forty books. He is chief consultant for the A&E television series Civil War Journal, and Director of Programs at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. He lives in Virginia.

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0156007487
ISBN 13 
9780156007481
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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