Description
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.
Author: James L. Nelson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 03/29/2005
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 7.54h x 4.92w x 0.98d
ISBN13: 9780060524043
ISBN10: 0060524049
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military | Naval
- History | Military | United States