The Alabama Affair: The British Shipyards Conspiracy in the American Civil War

viii, 153 pp. "It was while David Hollett was researching the history of Cammell Laird that he became interested in the most controversial vessels built by the firm: the Confederate raider Alabama, the infamous "Laird Rams"--and various other smaller vessels, built by the firm to serve the Confederacy--a regime established to perpetuate and extend slavery. What was involved? How was the conspiracy organised? Who were the shadowy figures at the centre of the controversy?"--rear wrapper