Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War in History is Not Boring

Jan 12, 2016 Susanna - Censored by GoodReads rated it it was amazing

I cannot help but visualize Belle Boyd as Erica Kane in crinolines. Her chapters inevitably had me laughing my head off.

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Dec 13, 2023 Janet rated it it was amazing

True story of 4 women during the Civil War - two from the Union, two from the Confederacy. It was very well researched and an amazing view of how war divided a country while still living in such close proximity! I had never realized how easily people passed back and forth between the every changing boundaries, especially in the Shenendoah vally area (where one of my daughters lives. Her town is mentioned many times).
The constant changing of characters was a bit tough to follow and things starte ...more

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Dec 25, 2014 Pat rated it it was amazing

This was a gift. I sat for one reading and twelve hours later I was finished. Excellent book about four women in the civil war who were spies. True story. So well written, read almost like a novel. Fast paced. Enjoyed immensely!

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Aug 29, 2014 Manda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: women-s-history, american-history, military-history

The stories of four women with differing ideologies and personal motivations are deftly interwoven by Karen Abbott into one tale that brings these Civil War women to life in a way that is always entertaining and never dry. From Belle Boyd's self-aggrandizing derring-do to Rose Greenhow's blindly self-sacrificing devotion to a doomed cause; from Emma Edmondson's gender-bending secret double life to the dangerous game Elizabeth Van Lew played under her own roof, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy unite ...more

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