True Colours is the third installment in Alaric Bond’s Fighting Sails series. It is set in 1797 and deals with the very difficult period when the British Navy was more or less crippled by the mutiny at Spithead, the Nore, and…
True Colours is the third installment in Alaric Bond’s Fighting Sails series. It is set in 1797 and deals with the very difficult period when the British Navy was more or less crippled by the mutiny at Spithead, the Nore, and…
The Jackass Frigate (a name sometimes used for small ‘sixth-rate’ frigates) is the second book in Alaric Bond’s Fighting Sails series. I was very favorably impressed with the first book and was looking forward to this one. The book begins with a scene…
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 year is 1795. England is at war with the revolutionary French Republic. The French fleet is under blockade in several French harbors, prevented from running to sea by the might of the Royal Navy. His Majesty’s Ship – the one…
Betrayal, the thirteenth book in Julian Stockwin’s series about Thomas Kydd (A Kydd Sea Adventure), is set in 1806. Captain Kydd, with his beloved frigate L’Aurore, is stationed in Cape Town, which he took part in the capture of as chronicled…
Ramcat Alan Lewrie is back! Reefs and Shoals is the newest title in Dewey Lambdin’s great naval fiction series from the Napoleonic ages. In the series, we follow Alan Lewrie all the way from his maiden trip as a midshipman, sent away by a…
A Flag of Truce is the fourth novel in Donachie’s John Pearce series. The story takes place in 1793, during the period of the French revolution – a period of great conflict and shifting alliances in Europe. Lieutenant John Pearce returns…
Dudley Pope is primarily known for his excellent and very entertaining series of navy fiction books from the Napoleonic era, featuring Lord Nicolas Ramage. However, Pope also authored a number of non-fiction books, as well as a navy fiction series known…
Conquest is the twelfth novel in Julian Stockwin’s excellent naval fiction series about Thomas Kydd, set in the Napoleonic age. This is a very interesting navy fiction series. First, it is very well researched and historically quite accurate. Second, the author knows the…
At the start of Lord Hornblower, the tenth book in the excellent series by C.S. Forester, Horatio Hornblower has been ill and has spent a long time onshore. Finally, he is better and receives new orders. This time Lord St. Vincent sends Commodore…