Download or read book The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe, Vol. 1 of 2 written by James D. Bulloch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped Some Of these were written under the influence of the heat and passion aroused and fostered by the magnitude and bitterness of the contest, and cannot therefore be received with the confidence which every narrative must inspire in order to win and to maintain that worthy and lasting credit which distinguishes history from fiction. Others have been published to defend the writers from charges of neglect or incapacity in military or civil Offices, and are too personal and controversial to interest the general reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.