Iron coffin
Subtitle: war, technology, and experience aboard the USS Monitor
By: David A. Mindell
Edition: Updated ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781421405209
Subjects: United States; Monitor (Ironclad); Naval operations; United States. Navy; History
Other titles: War, technology, and experience aboard the USS Monitor
Description: Describes the warship, the USS Monitor, discussing the battle against the CSS Virginia during the Civil War, how it affected warfare and ship construction, its portrayal in popular media, and sailors' accounts of life inside the vessel.
Notes: Originally published: War, technology, and experience aboard the USS Monitor / David A. Mindell. 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.