belles_lettres 's review for:

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott

5.0

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I read this book in about a day. And as big as this book is that should say something about the compelling prose that Abbott uses. I had read previously about Van Lee but did not feel like it was a re-hashing of known facts nor were there discrepancies in what was told here and in previous works where Van Lee is mentioned.