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James L. Nelson

Reign of Iron

The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

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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 magni… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-06-052404-3
  • EAN: 9780060524043
  • Produktnummer: 9976956
  • Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 400 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.9 cm x D3.0 cm 413 g
  • Gewicht: 413

Über den 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.

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