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…
This is a slightly different Douglas Reeman novel than the rest – it deals very little with the Royal Navy in the conventional sense, but rather with a little group of people in a special force that was assigned the task of…
This is an excellent naval novel by Douglas Reeman. Essentially it is a story about the relationship between a man and a ship, excellently described and told. The book has two parts. The first takes place in 1915 when young midshipman…
There are many historical novels about submarines during World War II and several of which are excellent. Run Silent, Run Deep, written by Edward Latimer Beach, Jr., who was a highly-decorated United States Navy submarine officer, is one of the best…
This wonderful thriller draws heavily on MacLean’s personal experiences in the Royal Navy during World War II, especially the ill-fated PQ-17 convoy to Murmansk. The novel features a light cruiser, similar to the real Dido class cruisers, extremely well-armed, and…
The action in Battlecruiser takes place from 1942 onwards. Battlecruisers shared the very large main armament of battleships, usually were of the same size, and had about the same armament. However, they were lighter, had less armor, and were faster than battleships.…
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…
This is the story of pilots who served in Royal Navy escort carriers in World War II, fighting the Germans and the Japanese. To me, it was also a story of an unknown type of ship fighting a much harsher…
