Shark of the Confederacy: The Story of the CMS Alabama

by Charles M. Robinson III

The fascinating story of the mission, destruction, and recent salvage of the legendary Confederate commerce raider Alabama. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557507287
• ISBN13: 9781557507280
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The CSA Roams the High Seas

In this short book, Robinson does a fantastic job of telling the story of the CSS Alabama: the globetrotting privateer of the Confederacy that attacked U.S. shipping interests from Canada to France to Brazil to China. In a very readable style, he gives an overview of how the South chartered privateers and how the North reacted before delving into the construction and history of the Alabama. He also does a good analysis of the actual impact the ship and its comrades had on U.S. shipping interests around the world. All in all, a top-rate look at one of the most infamous ships of the Civil War.