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Author:

Waller, Douglas C., author.

Title:

Lincoln's spies : their secret war to save a nation / Douglas Waller.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xxiii, 595 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

United States--Secret service.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Secret service.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Inauguration.
Appomattox Campaign, 1865--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-570) and index.

Summary:

Veteran journalist Douglas Waller, who has written ground-breaking intelligence histories, turns his sights on the shadow war of four secret agents for the North, three men and one woman. From the tense days before Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to the surrender at Appomattox four years later, Waller delivers a fast-paced narrative of the heroes, and scoundrels, who informed Lincoln's generals on the enemy positions for crucial battles and busted up clandestine Rebel networks.

ISBN:

1501126849
9781501126840

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1056743738

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