num_pages: 247
description: In an accessible and compelling account, a naval historian details the story of the USS Monitor, its brilliant creator, Swedish engineer John Ericsson, and its victorious clash with the Confederacy's Merrimac. Reprint.
language: English
title: Monitor: The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and The Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History
titlecomplete: Monitor: The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and The Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History
genres: Nonfiction, History, Civil War, American Civil War
ratings_count: 61
publisher: Ballantine Books