Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power

by Howard J. Fuller

Book Overview

The relatively unknown 'Cold War' of the American Civil War was a nevertheless crucial aspect of the survival, or not, of the United States in the mid 19th-century. Foreign intervention--explicitly in the form of British naval power--represented a far more serious threat to the success of the Union blockade, the safety of Yankee merchant shipping worldwide, and Union combined operations against the South than the Confederate States Navy. Whether or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591142970
• ISBN13: 9781591142973
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 409 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"