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,…
SEAL Team One is a classic fiction novel of the Vietnam War. There are several novels about the war in Vietnam, and this is, in my opinion, one of the better ones. However, in my mind, it is not the…
Uprising is the second book in Winston’s naval fiction series featuring Jonathan Kinkaid. In the first novel, Independent Action, we followed Lt. Kinkaid on a very successful mission in the North Atlantic and through a difficult period in captivity. Now Jonathan Kinkaid…
The Aden Effect is Lt. Commander Claude Berube’s first fiction book—he has previously authored three non-fiction books. Berube has a background in Naval Intelligence and seems to have both first-hand experience and solid knowledge of the subject matter of this novel.…
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…
This is the fourth book in Hammond’s historical navy fiction series about Richard Cutler and the Cutler family. In A Call to Arms, we meet the newly minted US Navy Captain Richard Cutler, now in command of his own fast and powerful…
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…
Hell Around the Horn is a nautical thriller more than a navy fiction book, which is what this blog is about. However, even though it doesn’t fit perfectly with the focus of this blog, I wanted to review this book. Partly…
For Love of Country is the second novel in William C. Hammond’s nautical fiction series about the Cutler family. The first was A Matter of Honor. Currently, Hammond has six books planned, he has stated in an interview – the third and…
