DOC Russian Traditional Culture: Religion; Gender and Customary Law by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer; Ronald Radzai in History

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One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other; "a half-submerged crocodile." Yet; on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads; Virginia; after a five-hour duel; the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only the Civil War but also naval warfare forever. Using letters; diaries; and memoirs of men who lived through the epic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack and of those who witnessed it from afar; William C. Davis documents and analyzes this famous confrontation of the first two modern warships. The result is a full-scale history that is as exciting as a novel. Besides a thorough discussion of the designs of each ship; Davis portrays come of the men involved in the building and operation of America's first ironclads-John Ericsson; supreme egoist and engineering genius who designed the Monitor; John Brooke; designer of the Virginia; John Worden; the well-loved captain of the Monitor; Captain Franklin Buchanan of the Virginia; and a host of other men on both Union and Confederate sides whose contributions make this history as much a story of men as of ships and war. William C. Davis is the editor of Civil War Times Illustrated and the author of Breckinridge: Statesman; Soldier; Symbol ; The Battle of New Market; Battle at Bull Run; and The Orphan Brigade.