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`A masterful tale of the great Civil War ironclads, those strange, seemingly supernatural ships. One, Richard Snow tells us, looked like a rhinoceros, the other like a metal pie plate. Their story - and that of the misunderstandings and manoeuvrings that preceded the Battle of Hampton Roads - is irresistible, nowhere more so than in this crackling, supremely poised account.' -- Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. `With muscular vitality, vast knowledge of military technology, and a novelist's gift for capturing vivid detail, Richard Snow retells the story of Civil War ironclads as if it is unfolding before our startled eyes for the first time. The Monitor and Merrimack have never seemed more modern, dangerous, or revolutionary as they reappear in the hands of this master storyteller.' -- HAROLD HOLZER, author of Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion and winner of the 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize `Everybody knows about the Monitor and the Merrimack, right? Well, actually, as it turns out, we don't ... Richard Snow opens up the vast, enthralling world of politics, war, technology, maritime history, and human drama that lies just back of that momentous battle. Snow is a terrific writer. I can't remember when I have had such sheer fun with a Civil War book.' -- S. C. GWYNNE, New York Times bestselling author of Rebel Yell and Empire of the Summer Moon `Iron Dawn is a magisterial account of one of the most important battles in US naval history. It is also a wonderfully absorbing story about human beings in all their struggles both great and small. Richard Snow has struck gold - or better yet, iron.' -- DR AMANDA FOREMAN, author of A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War and Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

'A masterful tale of the great Civil War ironclads, those strange, seemingly supernatural ships. One, Richard Snow tells us, looked like a rhinoceros, the other like a metal pie plate. Their story - and that of the misunderstandings and manoeuvrings that preceded the Battle of Hampton Roads - is irresistible, nowhere more so than in this crackling, supremely poised account.' -- Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. 'With muscular vitality, vast knowledge of military technology, and a novelist's gift for capturing vivid detail, Richard Snow retells the story of Civil War ironclads as if it is unfolding before our startled eyes for the first time. The Monitor and Merrimack have never seemed more modern, dangerous, or revolutionary as they reappear in the hands of this master storyteller.' -- HAROLD HOLZER, author of Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion and winner of the 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize 'Everybody knows about the Monitor and the Merrimack, right? Well, actually, as it turns out, we don't ... Richard Snow opens up the vast, enthralling world of politics, war, technology, maritime history, and human drama that lies just back of that momentous battle. Snow is a terrific writer. I can't remember when I have had such sheer fun with a Civil War book.' -- S. C. GWYNNE, New York Times bestselling author of Rebel Yell and Empire of the Summer Moon 'Iron Dawn is a magisterial account of one of the most important battles in US naval history. It is also a wonderfully absorbing story about human beings in all their struggles both great and small. Richard Snow has struck gold - or better yet, iron.' -- DR AMANDA FOREMAN, author of A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War and Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

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Richard Snow worked at 'American Heritage' magazine for nearly four decades and was editor-in-chief for seventeen years. He is the author of several books, including 'A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic', and was made a Guggenheim Fellow for his most recent work, 'I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford'. Snow has served as a consultant on several motion pictures, most recently Ken Burn's World War II series, 'The War'.

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