This book has been released under the following alternate titles:
The Mammoth Book of Sea Battles
The World's Greatest Master and Commander Stories
Introduction by David Donachie
A collection of seafaring stories from the age of frigates, cruisers, sloops and cannon fire. The authors include Richard Woodman, Keith Teylor, Derek Wilson, Amy Myers, Peter T. Garratt, Peter Tremayne and C.S. Forester.
Contents:
- Deadly Transit by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
- Nelson: First Blood [from On a Making Tide] by David Donachie
- Special Duties by Derek Wilson
- Fountains of Resolve by Keith Taylor
- Davy Jones's Locker by Harriet Hudson
- The Friendship of Monsieur Jeynois by William Hope Hodgson
- The Burning Deck by Peter T. Garratt
- Casabianca by Felicia Hemans (A poem)
- The Trap [from Treasure as Adam Hardy] by Kenneth Bulmer
- The Revenge [from The Privateersman] by Frederick Marryat
- The Night Attack by Richard Woodman
- King George's Free Traders by M. B. Warriss
- The Deserter by Guy N. Smith
- Nelson Expects by Nigel Brown
- The Knight Errant by Richard Butler
- The Revenge of the Gunner's Daughter by Peter Tremayne
- The Gauntlet by Jane Jackson
- Hornblower and His Majesty by C. S. Forester
- Gunfire off Makapuu by Jacland Marmur
- The Guns of the Ghost [from Jack Gallant] by Charles Partington
- The Last Engagement by John Frizell
- Goodbye to His Master by Arthur Conan Doyle