Maritime history books

True-life stories of seafarers facing danger and death in the 19th and early 20th centuries  Read More >>

The Invasion of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest battles of WWII Pacific. Roy Wilkes, Private, USMC was unfortunate...  Read More >>

Rod Heikell has spent more than 40 years sailing and writing about the Mediterranean. In this book he has painstakingly...  Read More >>

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The development of modern thermal imaging began, when in 1840 Sir John Herschel presented a thermal imaging technique...  Read More >>

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The Forgotten Shipwreck is the tragic true story of a Cornish pleasure boat which sank without trace or sensation,...  Read More >>

Impeccably researched and poignantly told, Ship of Death unfurls the true saga of the 'Emigrant'. For the first...  Read More >>

An account of the naval commander Roger of Lauria and his command of warfare at sea.  Read More >>

Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The...  Read More >>

C’est l’histoire de ces bateaux et de ces hommes qui forme le coeur du livre. Parmi eux, Querville avec son sous-marin...  Read More >>

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New paperback edition - The first ever history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s forgotten first ship, the SS Great Western,...  Read More >>

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A sweeping history of the world through its oceans and seas and their interconnections.  Read More >>

Beata Mozejko traces the chequered history of Peter von Danzig, a caravel which served under the flag of Gdansk...  Read More >>

L'origine de la piraterie, c'est l'origine même de la navigation. Dans les temps anciens, pirates et navigateurs...  Read More >>

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Covering the whole span of naval history from 1900 to the present, this book places the wars and battles fought...  Read More >>

The Catalpa Rescue is the gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history...  Read More >>

In the first-ever comprehensive survey of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women  Read More >>

A global account of pirates and their modus operandi from the middle ages to the present day.  Read More >>

False Flags tells the epic story of German raider voyages during the early years of World War II. In 1940 the raiders...  Read More >>

'The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy' includes 14 historical case studies that help to illuminate a number of...  Read More >>