Having won renown in the 1850s for his vivid warfront dispatches from the Crimea, William Howard Russell was the most celebrated foreign journalist in America d

This unique look at the Civil War presents both the war and the societies of the North and South from a British point-of-view.

Discusses problems of America.

My Diary North and South (1863), Russell's published account of his visit remains a classic of Civil War literature. It was not in fact a diary but a narrative