Big Bad Ironclad! A Civil War Tale
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series
Author: Nathan Hale
Book 2 in the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series
Pages: 128
Published: 2012
Age: 8+
Each of the books in Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales has elements of the strange but true and is presented in an engaging, funny format, highlighting the larger-than-life characters that pop up in real history. Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history of the amazing ironclad steam warships used in the American Civil War.
From the ship's inventor, who had a history of blowing things up and only 100 days to complete his project, to the mischievous William Cushing, who pranked his way through the whole war, this book is filled with surprisingly true facts and funny, brave characters that modern readers will easily relate to.
About the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series
Books in series order
- 1.One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale(2012)
- 2.Big Bad Ironclad! A Civil War Tale(2012)
- 3.Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale(2013)
- 4.Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale(2014)
- 5.The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale(2015)
- 6.Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale(2016)
- 7.Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid(2017)
- 8.Lafayette!(2018)
- 9.Major Impossible(2019)
- 10.Blades of Freedom: a Louisiana Purchase Tale(2020)
- 11.Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale(2021)
- 12.Above the Trenches(2023)
Reading age: 8+ years
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
These are the famous last words of Nathan Hale, a spy for the American rebels in the Revolutionary War.
But who was Nathan Hale? And how did the rebels defeat an army that was bigger, better, stronger and more heavily armed than they were? Find the answers to these questions, as well as many more stories of ingenuity, close calls with danger, and acts of heroism in Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales – a graphic novel series for middle-grade readers dedicated to telling the most thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!