Reign of iron : the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
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- ISBN: 0060524049
- Physical Description xiv, 368 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Edition 1st Perennial ed.
- Publisher New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005.
- Copyright ©2004
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General Note: | "Perennial." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-362) and index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 22.50 |
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Reign of Iron : The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
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Reign of Iron : The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long scramble to finish first, in a race filled with intrigue and second guessing, blundering and genius, the two ships -- the Monitor and the Merrimack -- after a four-hour battle, ended the three-thousand-year tradition of wooden men-of-war and ushered in "the reign of iron." In the first major work on the subject in thirty-five years, novelist, historian, and tall-ship sailor James L. Nelson, acclaimed author of the Brethren of the Coast trilogy, brilliantly recounts the story of these magnificent ships, the men who built and fought them, and the extraordinary battle that made them legend.