Title: Did ANYONE fact check this book?
Product review: A decent account of the naval portion of the Civil War in the Atlantic, marred by sloppy editing, and inexcusable mistake. the author TWICE claims an event took place after Second Bull Run (Aug 1862) when he's still discussing 1861 events. Then he describes a 51" thick steel armor for an ironclad! And goes on to claim that no ships were sunk by submarine between the Civil War and the sinking of the Lusitania (May 1915) even though U boats had been attacking and sinking British ships since the previous fall of 1914! Other parts of the book use repetition of phrases and sentences, giving the appearance of a book cut and pasted together with poor editing. This mars the story. An additional problem is that the author gives no proper comparison when he discusses gun sizes -- mixing 32 lbers and 12" guns, without ever giving the reader any indication of how these compared.
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