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Duel Between the First Ironclads (Paperback)
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Duel Between the First Ironclads (Paperback)
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List price R529
Loot Price R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
You Save R86 (16%)
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One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a
half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton
Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the
C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the
course of not only the Civil War but also naval warfare forever.
Using letters, diaries, and memoirs of men who lived through the
epic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack and of those who
witnessed it from afar, William C. Davis documents and analyzes
this famous confrontation of the first two modern warships. The
result is a full-scale history that is as exciting as a novel.
Besides a thorough discussion of the designs of each ship, Davis
portrays come of the men involved in the building and operation of
America's first ironclads-John Ericsson, supreme egoist and
engineering genius who designed the Monitor; John Brooke, designer
of the Virginia; John Worden, the well-loved captain of the
Monitor; Captain Franklin Buchanan of the Virginia; and a host of
other men on both Union and Confederate sides whose contributions
make this history as much a story of men as of ships and war.
William C. Davis is the editor of Civil War Times Illustrated and
the author of Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol; The Battle
of New Market; Battle at Bull Run; and The Orphan Brigade.
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