James Tertius DeKay, Author . Ballantine $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-43182-0
DeKay (Monitor) here presents the drama of the Confederacy's commerce raiders, built in Great Britain early in the Civil War and designed to disrupt Northern trade and consequently divert the North's naval blockade of Southern cotton. He...
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James Tertius DeKay, Author Walker & Company $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1330-8
The epic Civil War slugfest between two ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (aka the Merrimac) on March 9, 1862, made wooden warships obsolete. DeKay (Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian) has fashioned a lively popular history...
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James Tertius DeKay, Author Free Press $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4245-5
The most celebrated naval hero of the young American Republic returns to life in this slender but rousing biography. De Kay (Monitor: The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad; The Chronicles of the HMS Macedonian; etc.) recounts Decatur's naval
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James Tertius DeKay, Author, James Tertius De Kay, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-03804-0
The Macedonian first went to sea under British colors in 1809. Captured in the War of 1812, it became a mainstay of the U.S. Navy for another half century. It fought only one pitched battle, against the United States in 1812, but showed the flags of
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