This first book in J. E. Fender’s series about Geoffrey Frost, a new nautical fiction series, introduces us to the setting – the North-Eastern coast of America, and the main characters. Most of the action in this book is set in New…
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.…
The Golden Ocean is a relatively unknown tale of the sea by Patrick O’Brian. This was the first historical tale of the sea by Patrick O’Brian, written in 1956 before he started on the Aubrey Maturin series. It is a…
Command is the seventh book of the very interesting Kydd series by Julian Stockwin. Very unexpectedly, Thomas Kydd is appointed Commander and master of his own brig-sloop Teazer (16-gun). However, the sloop isfar from ready for sea, and Kydd must race against the clock…
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…
In this, the ninth book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series, the Captain and his HMS Patrician arrive in the South China Sea. They have traveled along the coast of North America, battled a typhoon and rescued an East Indiaman on the way…
This is the seventh installment in the popular and long-running Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. The Surgeon’s Mate is a historical novel set during the Napoleonic Wars. Here we catch up with Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin just after they have gotten out 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…
This is the fourth of the Hornblower books in terms of internal chronology, and it is now 1806. Hornblower has had a short leave ashore and hurries back to London with his wife to take up his new command – the HMS Atropos, a…
After completing the siege of a French fortress in Corsica, and bravely having cut out and destroyed a French supply ship in a naval action, the outspoken and unfortunate Lieutenant George Markham and his men are assigned to a sloop under…
