Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.Yet, by the time Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than American battle deaths in all other wars from the Revolution through the Vietnam War.
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to inform readers about the differences between three military conflictsB
to persuade readers of the seriousness of the American Civil WarC
to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battleD
to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in Appomattox, Virginia