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Edited by the well-known Civil War historian William C. Davis, "Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad" is an event. Indeed, rare are the books dealing with the attitude of France and Great Britain to the Confederacy. First published in the New York "Citizen" in 1867-1868, the reminiscences of Edwin C. DeLeon - a Confederate foreign agent in France - sank out of sight until its recent reprint (2005) by William C. Davis.
This book is an event because for the first time it discloses the attitudes and the intrigues of the Confederate diplomats in France. Moreover, through the words of DeLeon we discover petty jealousies between Confederate agents at Paris.
"Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad" is henceforth the "bound-companion" of F.L. Owsley's "King Cotton Diplomacy", Case & Spencer's "The United States and France : Civil War Diplomacy", B. Wilson's "John Slidell and the Confederates in Paris", and C.C. Cullop's "Confederate Propaganda in Europe".
Serge P. Noirsain, Belgian historian ; author of "La flotte européenne de la Confédération sudiste" and "La Confédération sudiste, mythes et réalités".