A wonderfully researched and very well written exploration of a fascinating part of the Civil War. The author does a great job of developing the background of the participants. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in the subject.

Over the last few years Tom Clavin has become a favorite writer of mine. His books about Dodge City Tombstone were well-written and very interesting. Although Phil Keith is the main author of this book, with Tom Clavin being the secondary, it is also well-written and very interesting. It recounts a little-known incident from the American Civil War which is right up my alley.

`This is a fine book. It describes a naval battle which took place outside of Cherbourg Harbor. The Confederacy's raider "Alabama" and the America ship the "Kearsage" fought until the Alabama was utterly vanquished. Keith gives the reader a minute-by-minute account of the battle, one might almost have been a participant.

"Uttermost" is an excellent book for students of naval history. or those interested in the American Civil War. And, as proven once again, the reader cannot go wrong with any book in which Tom Clavin had a hand.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

I really liked this book. I can't say enough about it. It was well-written and kept me interested throughout.

I rarely read military history, but this one caught my eye. I'm so glad I read it. I learned a great deal about the civil war I had never heard!

Overall - this was an interesting book, and I think my issues with it were mostly editing and pacing. Story-wise I appreciated that we flipped back and forth between the Union and Confederate points of view, chronologically leading up to the battle. As a historian as well, foundational context felt lacking especially helping the reader to understand why so many navel battles were fought off of Europe. This and the tone felt unnecessarily academic at times, limiting potential readers to those merely interested in history to those closer to academics. I felt the authors try to vary how they would refer to the Confederacy, which I can appreciate the effort, however, this causes more confusion for most readers, and in some cases comes off as being sympathetic to the Confederacy - a red flag for me.