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Overview
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.Synopsis
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.
Booknews
Presents the history of the building of the Monitor, combining the very latest in naval invention and technology, and the Virginia, formerly the Merrimack, which showed what ingenuity could do to correct for poor resources. Months of feverish activity of North and South culminated in a few hours of intense combat in March 1862. The author affords a step inside the turret in an account spiced with human-interest stories of men fighting a new kind of war. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)