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Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861

Lankford, Nelson.D.
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What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford’s engaging examination of the causes of the Civil War from other books on the subject is its willingness to consider the alternative possibilities to history. Cry Havoc! recounts in riveting detail the small quirks of timing, character, and place that influenced the huge trajectory of events during eight critical weeks from Lincoln’s inauguration through the explosion at Fort Sumter and the embattled president’s response to it. It addresses the what-ifs, the might-have-beens, and the individual personalities that played into circumstances—a chain of indecisions and miscalculations, influenced by swollen vanity and wishful thinking—that gave shape to the dreadful conflict to come.

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AuthorLankford, Nelson.D.
Number of pages308
PublisherPenguin Australia
Year Published2007

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