Item #2266770 Armored Giants: A Novel of the Civil War. F. Van Wyck Mason.

Armored Giants: A Novel of the Civil War

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2266770
ISBN: 0316549223

First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed with a few small tears, sticker ghosting on jacket front, faint stain along bottom edge of jacket. Top page ridge faintly foxed.

339 pp. "The year is 1861. War is raging and Lincoln's blockade is failing. Rumors run riot of an iron-girded Rebel ship being built in Norfolk. It's believed that nothing will be able to stop it once it's afloat. In New York City, a group of rogues and runaways gather, looking for excitement and fortune: Dion O'Dea, an Irish brawler and escaped convict; Kitty Hamilton, an alluring woman running from her past; Lionel Humphrey, British correspondent; Arlette D'Aubrey, French spy. At the center of the saga is Union Navy Lieutenant David Dexter, betrothed to a Virginia belle, who volunteers for the mission to spy on the construction of the Merrimac. At the same time, Dexter's friend Ira Thatcher begins his own commission on "Ericsson's folly," the iron-plated ship known as the Monitor."

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