Bibliograph

Reign of iron, the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack, James L. Nelson

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Reign of iron, the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack, James L. Nelson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-362) and index

Illustrations

mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reign of iron

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60410100

Responsibility statement

James L. Nelson

Sub title

the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

Summary

The first ironclad ships to fight each other, the Monitor and the Virginia (Merrimack), were the unique products of American design genius and ingenuity, North and South. In one afternoon, in a battle that lasted four hours, they ended the three-thousand-year tradition of wooden men-of-war and ushered in, as Admiral John A. Dahlgren called it, "the reign of iron."In this absorbing history, novelist, historian, and tall-ship sailor James L. Nelson, through in-depth research and a storyteller's voice, brilliantly recounts the story of these magnificent ships, the men who built and fought them, and the extraordinary battle that made them legend

Target audience

adult

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