Ron Field

Broschiertes Buch

Confederate Ironclad vs. Union Ironclad

Hampton Roads 1862

Illustrator: Gerrard, Howard; Bryan, Tony; Bull, Peter

Beschreibung

The Ironclad was a revolutionary weapon of war, the first modern, armoured, self-propelled warships. Illustrated with digital artwork, photographs and first-person perspective gunsight views, this book allows the reader to discover the revolutionary and radically different designs of the two rival Ironclads - the Merrimac and USS Monitor.

Autor

Ron Field is Head of History at the Cotswold School in Bourton-on-the-Water. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1982 and taught history at Piedmont High School in California from 1982 to 1983. He was associate editor of the Confederate Historical Society of Great Britain, from 1983 to 1992. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on US Civil War military history, and was elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, based in Washington, DC, in 2005. The author lives in Cheltenham, UK.

Produktdetails

• Duel
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 185mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781846032325
• ISBN-10: 1846032326
• Artikelnr.: 24790545