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…
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…
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…
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…
The Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope is one of my favorite series. It is very, very entertaining and full of clever naval action. A very imaginative and interesting series! In Governor Ramage, the fourth book in the Ramage series, Lieutenant…
This book tells another of the magnificent tales in the saga of Richard Bolitho. For readers of nautical fiction, this is one of the very good series set in the Age of Sail. It is now September 1800. The theme for The Inshore…
Many things may be said about Dudley Pope’s nautical fiction series from the age of sail, featuring Lord Ramage. What cannot be said is that it is boring! Dudley Pope is a great writer, and his books about Lord Ramage are always full…
I am a great lover of naval fiction and a fan of authors like Patrick O’Brian, C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent, Dewey Lambdin, and others. They tell great and very entertaining stories about the exploits of fictional heroes in the Royal Navy in the historical fiction tradition. Nelson…
Thomas Kydd has again claimed the helm of his beloved sloop-of-war, HMS Teazer. With him is his old friend Nicholas Renzi. After engaging in some heavy sea action Kydd, a former rakish corsair, is assigned to join in the coastal defenses…
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…
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…