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Iron Dawn audiobook
- By: Richard Snow
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Category: Civil War Period (1850-1877), History, United States
- Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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Iron Dawn Audiobook Summary
From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow comes the thrilling story of the naval battle that changed the Civil War and the future of all sea power.
No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built an iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project when it was already well along, and, in desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor, an entirely revolutionary iron warship–at the time, the single most complicated machine ever made. Abraham Lincoln himself was closely involved with the ship’s design. Rushed through to completion in just one hundred days, it mounted only two guns, but they were housed in a shot-proof revolving turret.
The ship hurried south from Brooklyn (and nearly sank twice on the voyage), only to arrive to find the Merrimack had destroyed half the Union fleet and would be back to finish the job the next day. When she returned, the Monitor was there. She fought the Merrimack to a standstill and saved the Union cause. As soon as word of the battle spread, Great Britain–the foremost sea power of the day–ceased work on all wooden ships. A thousand-year-old tradition ended, and the path to the naval future opened.
Iron Dawn is the irresistible story of these incredible, intimidating war machines. Historian Richard Snow brings to vivid life the tensions of the time, explaining how wooden and ironclad ships worked, maneuvered, battled, and sank. This full account of the Merrimack and Monitor has never been told in such immediate, compelling detail.
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Iron Dawn Audiobook Narrator
Grover Gardner is the narrator of Iron Dawn audiobook that was written by Richard Snow
Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981. He’s been named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” as well as a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine. Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist. In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him “Audiobook Narrator of the Year.”
Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams. Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey’s At the City’s Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving’s The Cider House Rules. Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master’s degree in Acting from George Washington University. He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter.
About the Author(s) of Iron Dawn
Richard Snow is the author of Iron Dawn
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Iron Dawn Full Details
| Narrator | Grover Gardner |
| Length | 12 hours 16 minutes |
| Author | Richard Snow |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 18, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781504785143 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Iron Dawn is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Civil War Period (1850-1877), History, United States
Additional info
The publisher of the Iron Dawn is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781504785143.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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