Title: Not well thought out.
Product review: This book assumes that all of the breaks go to the union, that the Federals have pre-cognition of every right and wrong decision made in the original civil war. I also feel that it very seriously underestimates the advantages of the British Empire, and the fact that the Brits were the technological world leaders in 1862. Yes it would probably take the brits 12 to 24 months to ramp up, but the author needs to take a look at what was accomplished in the last year of the Crimean War. As for US Privateers devastating British trade, this leaves out the fact that the british built far better steam machinery than we did in the 1860s and Built better warships, guns and armor. Examine what the British were building in the way of guns, armor, and ships by 1865 compared to what the Union was building. This without the influence of a shooting war. There is also the fact that there is a real chance that France might also come in against the Union.
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