Victory, the latest installment in the Thomas Kydd series, brings us to the epic Battle of Trafalgar and the events leading up to it. Napoleon has amassed a huge invasion army and wants to take his troops across the Channel…
Victory, the latest installment in the Thomas Kydd series, brings us to the epic Battle of Trafalgar and the events leading up to it. Napoleon has amassed a huge invasion army and wants to take his troops across the Channel…
The Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope is one of my personal favorites among the many good nautical fiction series. It’s clever, funny, and full of action. Ramage’s Devil starts in 1803, during the short-lived Peace of Amiens, which lasted from March 1802…
This is the third installment in the series often referred to as the Saga of Geoffrey Frost. In contrast to the previous two, however, this third novel mostly takes place on dry land, so it is not really a nautical fiction book. The…
Galleon is the third book in the Ned Yorke series. In Jamaica Ned Yorke, the leader of the buccaneers, and Sir Thomas Whetstone, his second-in-command, begin to build homes on their plantations. They are now both extremely rich men. But…
In this installment in Alexander Kent’s excellent series about Richard Bolitho, the action takes place in 1798. Napoleon is concentrating his forces in the Mediterranean. He is preparing to annex Egypt. And now the newly promoted Commodore Richard Bolitho is sent…
The Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope is one of my favorite series. It is very, very entertaining and full of clever naval action. A very imaginative and interesting series! In Governor Ramage, the fourth book in the Ramage series, Lieutenant…
I like this series better and better. I thought the first book I read was good, but not in any way exceptional. But this book, actually the eleventh in the sequence I think, more or less blew my mind. To…
Lord Ramage is an interesting and likable character. Unlike most of the heroes of the naval fiction about the age of sail, as for example Richard Bolitho, Alan Lewrie, and Jack Aubrey, the fictional character Ramage has an upper-class background…
After a spell on dry land, Lord Ramage and HMS Calypso are ordered by Admiral Lord Nelson to join his fleet at Cadiz in Spain. Ramage joins the fleet after a speedy journey from England (however, Nelson’s journey was even faster). His first mission there…
The ninth novel in Patrick O’Brian’s Maturin/Aubrey saga is set in Malta following the events in The Ionian Mission. Captain Aubrey’s favorite ship, HMS Surprise, is undergoing repairs. However, Malta is swarming with Napoleonic agents, so that Stephen Maturin is kept very busy. And to…