{"product_id":"book-c2is","title":"Iron Dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow comes the thrilling story of the naval battle that changed the Civil War and the future of all sea power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built an iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the \u003ci\u003eMerrimack\u003c\/i\u003e. The North got word of the project when it was already well along, and, in desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the \u003ci\u003eMonitor\u003c\/i\u003e, an entirely revolutionary iron warship-at the time, the single most complicated machine ever made. Abraham Lincoln himself was closely involved with the ship's design. Rushed through to completion in just one hundred days, it mounted only two guns, but they were housed in a shot-proof revolving turret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ship hurried south from Brooklyn (and nearly sank twice on the voyage), only to arrive to find the \u003ci\u003eMerrimack \u003c\/i\u003ehad destroyed half the Union fleet and would be back to finish the job the next day. When she returned, the \u003ci\u003eMonitor \u003c\/i\u003ewas there. She fought the \u003ci\u003eMerrimack\u003c\/i\u003e to a standstill and saved the Union cause. As soon as word of the battle spread, Great Britain-the foremost sea power of the day-ceased work on all wooden ships. A thousand-year-old tradition ended, and the path to the naval future opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIron Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e is the irresistible story of these incredible, intimidating war machines. Historian Richard Snow brings to vivid life the tensions of the time, explaining how wooden and ironclad ships worked, maneuvered, battled, and sank. This full account of the \u003ci\u003eMerrimack\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMonitor\u003c\/i\u003e has never been told in such immediate, compelling detail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49295187673392,"sku":"BDc2is","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49295187738928,"sku":"ZEc2is","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49295187771696,"sku":"ZMc2is","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/c2is-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775815227","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c2is","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}