Название: Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
Автор: James L. Nelson
Издательство: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0060524049
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 384
Размер: 1,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
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."