Iron Dawn : The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History (Paperback)

from charbonn

The fight between the Monitor and the Merrimack (or the Virginia) defined the beginnings of a new era in naval warfare. It was also a classic tale in itself. The Merrimack, by sinking the Congress and the Cumberland and forcing the Minnesota aground, inflicted in one day 10% of all Union naval fa...

from dmclane

Too frequently historical writers are great researchers and passing narrators leaving the writing dry and lifeless fortunately this book suffers in neither regard. Additionally, Richard Snow has done an entertaining and admirable job of proving his thesis, namely that the advent of the revolution...

from Wickabod

I enjoyed Richard Snow's intriguing naval history of the Monitor and the Merrimack. It's an exhaustively researched account -- and the level of detail is compelling. But it's also an elegant narrative, even as the story gallops along at a furious pace. Snow's pulse-pounding account of the battle ...

from msaucier818

There were parts of this book that were great, and other parts that really dragged for me. This book seems to be a fan favorite of history readers, so I am probably in the minority on this one. I usually love the asides in a history book where the background of historical persons are discussed, b...