Great book on these ironclad ships. It also gives a brief history of how the French and English experimented with Ironclads first. The book covers the construction of the two ships and then their historic battle in Chesapeake Bay - along with how the two ships met their ends. Loved the book - jus...
This book is great if you have kids that want to start reading classic books, but you don't feel that they are going to either enjoy or understand it. I feel, however, that this is too much of a dumbed down version of the tale.