Why read Come Retribution?

Book cover of Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln

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Many Confederates believed that Abraham Lincoln himself was the sponsor of the Union army's heavy destruction of the South. With John Wilkes Booth as its agent, the Confederate Secret Service devised a plan of retribution--to seize President Lincoln, hold him hostage, and bring the war-weary North to capitulation. The code…

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1 author picked Come Retribution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Julian Sher

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I love details, intrigue, and rigorous fact digging, and this book makes gripping reading as the authors detail the money, men, and machinations that went into the slave South’s secret war.

It puts John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Lincoln in its proper, wider context of the Confederacy’s many plots against the Union–and you discover why and how Canada played an important role in the hidden war against the Union.

From Julian's list on Civil War plots against Lincoln from Canada.