The Monitor Chronicles 
Subtitle: One Sailor's Account. Today's Campaign to Recover the Civil War Wreck
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: July 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780684869971
Subjects: Biography: general; History; Warfare & Defence; Sailors; Military - Naval; Military History - U.S. Civil War; Shipwrecks; Underwater archaeology; History - Military / War; North Carolina; History: World; USA; Military - United States; United States - Civil War; History / General; Hatteras, Cape; United States; Correspondence; Geer, George S; Monitor (Ironclad)
First sentence: AT THE AGE OF FORTY-THREE, Lieutenant John L. Worden had been twenty-seven years a sailor and a seven months a prisoner of the Confederacy when, on January 13, 1862, the Navy Department celebrated his release by placing him in command of its newest and most unusual craft.