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

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.

Reign of Iron

Author: James L. Nelson

Title: Reign of Iron : The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

Series: n/a

First Published by: William Morrow

Place: US

Format: HC

Date:April 2004

ISBN-10: 0060524030

ISBN-13: 9780060524036

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