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…
Dudley Pope’s Yorke-series consists of four books: Buccaneer (1981), Admiral (1982), Galleon (1986), and Corsair (1987). While I much prefer the Lord Ramage series by Pope, I enjoy the York series as well. It is an interesting naval fiction series in that it deals with privateers – those “barely legal” ships outfitted…
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…
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…
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…
Once again we follow the exploits of Captain Jack Aubrey, a British naval officer, and Stephen Maturin, Aubrey’s particular friend, ship surgeon, and spy. The Far Side of the World, an excellent navy fiction novel by Patrick O’Brian, is the book that gave…
This is the second book in Richard Woodman’s trilogy about William Kite and the sequel to The Guineaman. The action in The Privateersman takes place at the beginning of the American Revolution. William Kite is now a widower, a ship-owner, and exiled from Liverpool,…
Ramage and the Renegades is a great historical fiction book and important in the Lord Ramage series. In this book, the Marchesa of Volterra, who has been Lord Ramage’s love through the series so far, realizes that marriage is not going to…
