Reign of Iron - The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the

Informationen zum Autor James L. Nelson has served as a seaman, rigger, boatswain, and officer on a number of sailing vessels. He is the author of By Force of Arms, The Maddest Idea, The Continental Risque, Lords of the Ocean, and All the Brave Fellows -- the five books of his Revolution at Sea Saga. -- as well as The Guardship: Book One of the Brethren of the Coast. He lives with his wife and children in Harpswell, Maine. Zusammenfassung The acclaimed author of the Brethren of the Coast trilogy revisits one of the great American naval battles and a turning point in our history -- the first major work on the subject in thirty-five years. . . 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.

Product details

• Authors: James L Nelson, James L. Nelson
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2004
• EAN: 9780060524036
• ISBN: 978-0-06-052403-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, North America (USA and Canada), Naval forces and warfare, HISTORY: United States / 19th Century, HISTORY: Military / United States, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: CIVIL WAR, HISTORY: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY: MILITARY, HISTORY: North America, HISTORY: Military / General, HISTORY: Military / Guerilla Warfare