Naval category: 2015 books
Every Man Will Do His Duty
An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793–1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Napoleonic-era accounts of life aboard Royal Navy warships: “Readers of Patrick O’Brian and C. S. Forester will enjoy this collection” (Library Journal).
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal...
The Scent of Corruption
The Fighting Sail Series, #7
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Summer, 1803: the uneasy peace with France is over, and Britain has once more been plunged into the turmoil of war. After a spell on the beach, Sir Richard Banks is appointed to HMS Prometheus, a seventy-four gun line-of-battleship which an eager Admiralty loses no time in ordering to sea. The ship...
Seafaring Women
Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled aboard...
by David Cordingly
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
For centuries the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters stayed on shore. Oceangoing adventurers and the crews of their ships were part of an all-male world — or were they?
In this illuminating...
The Mighty Hood
The Battleship that Challenged the Bismarck
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The story of the HMS Hood, the last great warship of the British Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal.
When it was launched in 1918, the HMS Hood was the flagship of the Royal Navy. As a battle cruiser, “The Mighty Hood” was fast enough to evade enemy cruiser ships and...
A Wind from the North
The Life of Henry the Navigator
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The captivating biography of Prince Henry of Portugal, the navigator and explorer who helped usher in the Age of Discovery.
Before Columbus, Vespucci, and Sir Francis Drake, there was Henry the Navigator. Pirate hunter, intrepid explorer, and ship designer, the Portuguese prince was one of the...
by Matthew West
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
The thirty-year Golden Age of Piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century. During that time, as this vividly written book by historian Matthew West shows, poverty and oppression prompted many men - and even a few women - to sea in search of treasure, adventure, and sometimes, revenge. The treasure...
Pearl Harbor
The Verdict of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling authors of Miracle at Midway delve into the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII in “a superb work of history” (Albuquerque Journal Magazine).
In the predawn hours of December 7, 1941, a Japanese carrier group sailed toward Hawaii. A few minutes before...
by Rob Mundle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor
Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers in world history. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery...
War Beneath the Waves
A True Story of Courage and Leadership Aboard a World War II Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
From the national bestselling author of Final Patrol comes a gripping story of heroism under the sea.
In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the USS Billfish submarine was spotted by the Japanese, who launched a vicious depth charge attack. Explosions wracked the sub...
Crash Dive
True Stories of Submarine Combat
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
They are the ultimate unseen deterrent in modern warfare. Thousands of tons of steel, missiles, torpedoes, and men, lurking silently hundreds of feet underwater, able to lie off any coastline and unleash a devastating hail of destruction with pinpoint accuracy. They are the true masters of the oceans,...
Shadow Divers
The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep...
The Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1965-1991
From Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
A new examination of why Cuba, a Caribbean country, sent half a million of its citizens to fight in Angola in Africa, and how a short-term intervention escalated into a lengthy war of intervention.
It clearly details how in January 1965 Cuba formed an alliance with the Angolan MPLA which...
Monitors of the Royal Navy
How the Fleet Brought the Big Guns to Bear
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War One and Two. They were built as cheap "disposable" ships made out of redundant bits and pieces which the Admiralty happened to have available...