Our Man in Charleston

Posted on 27 December 2018 by Christopher Dickey

Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade His actions helped determine the fate of a nation.As the United States threatened to break into civil war, the Southern states found themselves in an impossible position Their economic survival would require reopening the slave trade, banned in America since 1807, but the future of the Confederacy could not be secured without official recognition from Great Britain, which would never countenance such a move How, then, could the first be achieved without dooming the possibility of the second Believing their cotton monopoly would provide sufficient leverage, the Southerners publically declared the slave trade dead, even as rapacious traders quickly landed and ships on the American coast.The unlikely man at the roiling center of this intrigue was Robert Bunch, the ambitious young British consul in Charleston, S.C As he soured on the self righteousness of his slave loving neighbors, Bunch used his unique perch to thwart their plans, sending reams of damning dispatches to the Foreign Office in London and eventually becoming the Crown s best secret source on the Confederacy even as he convinced those neighbors that he was one of them.In this masterfully told story, Christopher Dickey introduces Consul Bunch as a key figure in the pitched battle between those who wished to reopen the floodgates of bondage and misery, and those who wished to dam the tide forever Featuring a remarkable cast of diplomats, journalists, senators, and spies, Our Man in Charleston captures the intricate, intense relationship between great powers as one stood on the brink of war From the Hardcover edition. Free Download [ Our Man in Charleston ] by [ Christopher Dickey ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This will be a mini review short and to the point While I would love to expound, we ll save that for a later date, and books I mprone to recommended.I ordered this novel without researching it or reading any reviews It was a bestseller, the description was intriguing, that was enough I should have expected it, really I think I wanted to deceive myself that maybe just maybe there was some hope a clean, secular, civil war book existed And maybe that book would be this one In that This will be a mini review short and to the point While I would...This is the story of Robert Bunch, the British government s consul in Charleston before the start of the civil war I have never read such chilling accounts of the slave industry as I did in this book To know that even after it had been banned in the south a ship was confiscated and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was...I m not sure that this book will rate as highly with fiction readers as it does with me and other lovers of anything related to the American Civil War For one thing, it s title is disingenuous as the subject of the book, Robert Bunch, lived and worked quite openly as Her Majesty s royal consul in Charleston, South Carolina for the decade leading up to that state s secession from the union He didn t wear a tuxedo or play baccarat while drinking vodka martinis shaken, not stirred , and he did n I m not sure that this book will rate as highly with fiction readers as it does with me and other lovers of anything related to the American Civil War For one thing, it s title is disingenuous as the subject of the book, Robert Bunch, lived and worked quite openly as Her Majesty s royal consul in Charleston, South Carolina for the decade leading up to that state s secession from the union He didn t wear a tuxedo or play baccarat while drinking vodka martinis shaken, not stirred , and he did not, or at least the book doesn t tell of, frequently bed beautiful enemy agents If he did anything in secret it was to assiduously hide from his hosts how passionately he detested slavery and anyone who actively defended that peculiar institution that lay at the heart of the South s ...Via Goodreads First Reads I like to consider myself a Civil War history buff, but even I, on occasion, find a book or article on an event or situation that is so granular in its focus that I find it gives me tunnel vision, and I zotz out for entire paragraphs at a time And I will tell you that for just over half of this book, I feared I had found another such a missive But then things picked up, and what came forth made every bit of earlier labor...When somebody tells you tells you that the war of northern aggression was a fight for Southern rights and not slavery this is the book to prove them wrong It s an outstanding addition to Civil War history.This is the most fascinating book I ve read in a long time Equal parts biography and American Civil War nonfiction, it details the experiences of Britain s foremost spy, Robert Bunch, who was living in Charleston, South Carolina when the Civil War began and for its duration I am truly grateful to Crown Publishers and Net Galley for permitting me to read the DRC in advance And perhaps it is just as well, in a way, that my kindle fell in the potty when I was done and with it went hundreds genu This is the most fascinating book I ve read in a long time Equal parts biography and American Civil War nonfiction, it details the experiences of Britain s foremost spy, Robert Bunch, who was living in Charleston, South Carolina when the Civil War began and for its duration I am truly grateful to Crown Publish...At the age of 32 Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston, SC to fill the post of British Consul This is his story As South Carolina s leaders becameandbelligerent in protecting their peculiar institution, Bunch finds himself in the eye of the storm p 205 Through him you see the coming of the war and the many dimensions of the British role non role in the US Civil War Bunch grew to detest slavery and the people who supported it For 10 years he kept a poker face as he carried out At the age of 32 Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston, SC to fill the post of British Consul This is his story As South Carolina s leaders becamea...Note I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads A book about Robert Bunch, a British consul stationed in Charleston, South Carolina from 1853 to 1863 which meant that he was at Ground Zero during the emergence of the Confederacy His dispatches to his superiors in London and the British ambassador in Washington provide the backbone information of this book, which focuses almost exclusively on his years in South Carolina the rest of his life, before and after, is glo Note I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads A book about Robert Bunch, a British consul stationed in Charleston, South Carolina from 1853 to 1863 which meant that he was at Ground Zero during the emergence of the Confederacy His dispatches to his superiors in London and the British ambassador in Washington provi...I read this book on the recommendation of a Goodreads friend I m glad I did I ve read many books about the Civil War, but none from the perspective of Our Man in Charleston The book is about the British Consul, Robert Bunch , to Charleston South Carolina just before and during most of the war Charleston and South Carolina led the move to secession from the Union and that put a lot of pressure on Britain s relationship with the United States Britain was heavily invested in American cotton bu I read this book on the recommendation of a Goodreads friend I m glad I did I ve read many books about the Civil War, but none from the perspective of Our Man in Charleston The book is about the British Consul, Robert Bunch , to Ch...Did you know that England had spies in the Confederacy I surely did not before this book I m glad I saw this as a 5 star book on a friend s goodreads shelf This read just reconfirms to me what good taste my friend has in books I find books about the Civil War to be intriguing, and this book offered a new perspective on the political scene in Charleston during the time period leading up to and during the beginning of the the Civil War While the book conveys all the horrors of slavery and t Did you know that England had spies in the Confederacy I surely did not before this book I m glad I saw this as a 5 star book on ...

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27 December 2018

Christopher Dickey