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Glittering Illusion: English Sympathy for the Southern Confederacy

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This book was Vanauken's thesis work while at Oxford, presenting a neglected and unusual viewpoint of England's position on the American Civil War. Vanauken's views on "The War Between the States" won't draw much of a following nowadays, but that doesn't mean they are incorrect or misleading. To the contrary, Vanauken forces the reader to rethink long accepted dogma about America's bloodiest conflict, and why England never entered the fray. American Civil War fans will enjoy reading this book.

This is a very educational book all about England's perspective of The American Civil War. I've never study their point of view and I enjoyed learning all about it. In this book, the reader learns why so many English people sided with the South and despite that, why England did not help the Confederacy achieve it's goal for freedom against the United States of America.

In the last chapter, there is an entertaining fantasia where the C.S.A. wins the war through British intervention and becomes apart of the British Empire, Lee becomes Lord Arlington and Lincoln retires to Maine and writes, "An Apology for My Administration".