Reviews
Mindell takes us back in time so we become 'witnesses' to the events surrounding the Union Navy's most famous ironclad.
The excellence of this volume confirms its continuing usefulness... Iron Coffin is a veritable gem of a book.
Mindell’s research is impeccable and supports his argument with considerable authority from contemporary sources as well as his own experiences after the partial recovery of the Monitor’s components. The book, as with its earlier incarnation, is an important bridge between operational military history and the human side to science and technology.
Midell conveys life aboard the Monitor with realism and honesty.
An original and stimulating study that raises serious questions about relations between warriors and their death-dealing machinery.
Well researched and wide in its scope, this work raises issues that transcend the Civil War and resonate in our own time.
This book offers important new insights into the Monitor as a national icon, the ironclad's association with the modern U.S. Navy, and the evolving role of innovation and heroism in twenty-first-century warfare.
Mindell provides an intriguing and richly textured analysis that makes effective use of contemporary diaries and other reports. These accounts help Mindell convey the flavor of life aboard the Monitor with candor and insight.
Book Details
List of Illustrations
Preface 2012
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction: A Strange Sort of Warfare
1. Revising the Revolution, 1815–1861
2. Building a Ship, Speaking Success
3. William Keeler's
List of Illustrations
Preface 2012
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction: A Strange Sort of Warfare
1. Revising the Revolution, 1815–1861
2. Building a Ship, Speaking Success
3. William Keeler's Epistolary Monitor
4. Life in the Artificial World
5. The Battle of Hampton Roads
6. Iron Ship in a Glass Case, April–September 1862
7. Utilitarians View the Monitor's Fight, 1862–1865
8. Melville and the Mechanic's War
Conclusion: Mechanical Faces of Battle
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography Essay
Index