The Recipient’s Son is many things. It is a sensitive novel about a young man’s coming of age. It is a revealing novel about life in the somewhat closed educational institutions of the armed forces – in this case, the US…
The Recipient’s Son is many things. It is a sensitive novel about a young man’s coming of age. It is a revealing novel about life in the somewhat closed educational institutions of the armed forces – in this case, the US…
Pirate Alley is a little outside the normal for this blog. Sure, it’s about pirates. And about naval action. But while it reads like fiction, it is unfortunately not fiction. For unpleasant as it may be, piracy is for real, and…
Historical fiction is educational. The Greater the Honor is a naval fiction novel, well- researched and based on historical facts about the Barbary War. Until relatively recently, I didn’t know anything about the Barbary Wars or even about American naval presence in…
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…
For most, airships represent a tremendously appealing, glamorous, and perhaps even romantic technology that has completely failed. Once it was viewed as incredibly promising and interesting for a wide range of applications – for military purposes and for long-range transportation…
“Hazardous Duty” is the third book in Michael Winston’s nautical fiction series featuring Jonathan Kinkaid, but the fourth in terms of publication date. After writing the third book in the series, Tidings of Victory, the author seemingly decided to write one…
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,…
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.…