Pirate Alley is a little outside the normal for this blog. Sure, it’s about pirates. And about naval action. But while it reads like fiction, it is unfortunately not fiction. For unpleasant as it may be, piracy is for real, and…
Pirate Alley is a little outside the normal for this blog. Sure, it’s about pirates. And about naval action. But while it reads like fiction, it is unfortunately not fiction. For unpleasant as it may be, piracy is for real, and…
For most, airships represent a tremendously appealing, glamorous, and perhaps even romantic technology that has completely failed. Once it was viewed as incredibly promising and interesting for a wide range of applications – for military purposes and for long-range transportation…
This is the new, revised edition of a classic work on British battleships, British Battleships of World War One, New Revised Edition is the full title. I have to start out by saying that it a magnificent book: It is in hardcover,…
The full title of this book is Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, And Captivity In The 17th Century Mediterranean. I have a strong interest in naval fiction (or, if you prefer, maritime fiction). And while this is a non-fiction book, the…
A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945, by Russell Spurr A first-rate military history book. A Glorious Way To Die: The Kamikaze Mission Of The Battleship Yamato, April 1945 dramatizes the final mission of…
Patrick O’Brian, the “father” of Captain Jack Aubrey and his particular friend doctor Stephen Maturin, was a fantastic writer. The series of 20 books about these two characters – their travels, their conversations, their lives, the espionage, and all the rest…