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The blue and the gray undercover / edited by Ed Gorman.
Van Pelt Library PS648.C54 B57 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Undercover operations--Fiction.
- Undercover operations.
- Secret service--Fiction.
- Secret service.
- War stories, American.
- Spy stories, American.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Secret service--Fiction.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- War stories, American.
- Physical Description:
- 318 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Forge, 2001.
- Summary:
- No war is won on the battlefield alone, and the Civil War was no exception. Behind the lines, behind closed doors, in disguise, spies for both the Union and the Confederacy did what spies have always done: seek out information that will help their side get some advantage over the enemy.
- In the pages of this unique volume some of the most gifted storytellers of our generation write about many different spies. Editor Ed Gorman has brought together never-before-published tales of undercover work during the War Between the States by bestselling authors. In cities and in the wild, north and south of the Mason-Dixon line, in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea -- even in Canada -- these stories capture the tension and excitement of the high-stakes risks that numberless people took to help their side in the terrible war that sundered a nation. Not all the stories are based on fact, but all show people doing the kinds of things that were actually done to win the war with brains instead of bullets. The result is a fascinating look at a little-known part of our Civil War heritage.
- Contents:
- Hobson's choice / John Lutz
- The measure / Gary Phillips
- The counterfeit copperhead / Edward D. Hoch
- The dead line / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- South Georgia crossing / Loren D. Estleman
- The invisible spy / Brendan DuBois
- Monica Van Telflin and the proper application of pressure / James H. Cobb
- Worth a thousand words / Aileen Schumacher
- Belle Boyd, the rebel spy / Bill Crider
- The knights of liberty / Robert J. Randisi
- Port tobacco / Jane Haddam
- The swan / Ray Vukevich
- The courtship of Captain Swenk / P.G. Nagle
- The road to Stony Creek / Jane Lindskold
- Other... / Janet Berliner
- The turncoat / Doug Allyn
- A small and private war / Ed Gorman
- Slither / Marie Jakober.
- ISBN:
- 0312874871
- OCLC:
- 47623834
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