AOS Naval Non-Fiction - Biographical Book List

Non-Fiction books which are biographies of specific officers or men, discussion of a particular officers tactics or battles, etc. during the Age of Sail.

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• Alastair Wilson & Joseph F. Callo
  • Who's Who in Naval History: From 1550 to the present
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • The Life of Nelson
• Andrew D. Lambert
  • Admirals: The Naval Commanders who made Britain Great
  • Nelson: Britannia's God of War
  • The Foundations of Naval History: Career of Sir John Knox Loughton
• Angus Konstam
  • Horatio Nelson
• Anne Salmond
  • Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas
• Anthony Cornish
  • The Voyages of Captain Cook: 101 Questions and Answers About the Explorer and His Three Great Scientific Expeditions
• Brian Lavery, Helen Smailes, David Stockdale & David Swinfen
  • Glorious Victory
• Brian Vale
  • Cochrane In The Pacific
  • The Audacious Admiral Cochrane
• Brian Vale & Griffith Edwards
  • Physician to the Fleet: The Life and Times of Thomas Trotter, 1760-1832
• Bruce A. Castleman
  • Knickerbocker Commodore: The Life and Times of John Drake Sloat, 1781-1867
• Bruce Grant
  • Isaac Hull, Captain of Old Ironsides
• Bryan Perrett
  • The Real Hornblower: The Life and Times of Admiral Sir James Gordon GCB
• C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Samuel Walters, Lieutenant R.N.
• C. S. Forester
  • Nelson
• C. S. Forester (Editor)
  • The Adventures of John Wetherell
• Charles E. Brodine Jr., Michael J. Crawford & Christine F. Hughes
  • Against All Odds: United States Sailors in the War of 1812
• Charles Rathbone Low
  • Captain Cook's Three Voyages Round the World; with a Sketch of his Life
• Chris Ware
  • Admiral Byng
• Christopher Hibbert
  • Nelson: A Personal History
• Christopher J. Valin
  • Fortune's Favorite: Sir Charles Douglas and the Breaking of the Line
• Colin White
  • 1797: Nelson's Year of Destiny : Cape St. Vincent and Santa Cruz de Tenerife‎
  • Nelson
  • Nelson the Admiral‎
  • Nelson, The New Letters
  • The Nelson Companion‎
  • The Nelson Encyclopedia
  • The Trafalgar Captains: Their Lives and Memorials
• Craig L. Symonds
  • Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan
• Cyrus Townsend Brady
  • Commodore Paul Jones
  • Stephen Decatur
• David Cordingly
  • Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
• David Hannay
  • Rodney
  • The Life of Captain Frederick Marryat
• David Syrett
  • Admiral Lord Howe: A Biography
• Denis Orde
  • In the Shadow of Nelson: The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood
  • Nelson's Mediterranean Command
• Edited by T. M. Grundner
  • The Men Who Spoke to Hornblower
• Edward Howard
  • The Memoirs of Sir Sidney Smith: Volumes I and II
• Edwin P. Hoyt
  • The Tragic Commodore: The Story of Oliver Hazard Perry
• Evan Thomas
  • John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
• Frank McLynn
  • Captain Cook: Master of the Seas
• Frederick Chamier
  • The Life of a Sailor
• Geoffrey Bennett
  • Nelson the Commander
• George Shelvocke
  • A Privateer's Voyage Round the World
• Gregory Fremont-Barnes
  • Nelson's Officers and Midshipmen
  • Nelson's Sailors
• Hannah Snell, Mary Lacy and Mary Anne Talbot
  • The Lady Tars
• Heather Noel-Smith & Lorna M. Campbell
  • Hornblower's Historical Shipmates: The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable
• Iain Gordon
  • Admiral of the Blue: The Life and Times of Admiral John Child Purvis (1747-1825)
• James D.G. Davidson
  • Admiral Lord St. Vincent - Saint or Tyrant?
• James Fenimore Cooper
  • Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers
  • Ned Myers: or Life before the Mast
• James Tertius de Kay
  • A Rage for Glory: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN
• Jean Lee Latham
  • Anchor's Aweigh: The Story of David Glasgow Farragut
  • David Glasgow Farragut: Our First Admiral
  • Drake: The Man They Called a Pirate
  • Far Voyager: The Story of James Cook
  • Man of the Monitor: The Story of John Ericsson
  • Trail Blazer of the Seas
• Joan Druett
  • Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
• John Barrow
  • Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith: Vol. I and II
• John Sugden
  • Nelson: A Dream of Glory
  • Nelson: The Sword of Albion
  • Sir Francis Drake
• John Winton
  • Admiral Hawke: Britain's Greatest Forgotten Naval Commander
• Joseph F. Callo
  • John Paul Jones: America's First Sea Warrior
  • Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787
• Joseph Hepburn Parsons
  • Overlooked Hero: A Portrait of Sir Sidney Smith
• Kevin D. McCranie
  • Admiral Lord Keith and the Naval War Against Napoleon
• Lee Bienkowski
  • Admirals in the Age of Nelson
• Louis Arthur Norton
  • Captains Contentious: The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine
  • Joshua Barney: Hero of the Revolution and 1812
• Maj.-Gen. Sir Howard Douglas
  • Naval Evolutions: A Memoir
• Mary Malloy
  • Devil on the Deep Blue Sea: The Notorious Career of Captain Samuel Hill of Boston
• Mary McGrigor
  • Defiant and Dismasted at Trafalgar: The Life & Times of Admiral Sir William Hargood
• Matthew Henry Barker aka ‘The Old Sailor’
  • The Life of Nelson
• Max Adams
  • Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero
• Nicholas Tracy
  • Nelson's Battles: The Triumph of British Seapower
  • Who's Who in Nelson's Navy: Two Hundred Heroes
• Peter A. Ward
  • British Naval Power in the East 1794-1805: The Command of Admiral Peter Rainier
• Peter Hore (editor)
  • Nelson's Band of Brothers: Lives and Memorials
• Peter Le Fevre & Richard Harding (Editors)
  • British Admirals of the Napoleonic Wars: The Contemporaries of Nelson
  • Precursors of Nelson: British Admirals of the Eighteenth Century
• Peter Thomas & Nicholas Tracy
  • Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN
• Richard Hough
  • Captain James Cook: A Biography
• Richard Woodman
  • The Sea Warriors: Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson
• Rob Mundle
  • Bligh: Master Mariner
  • Cook
  • Flinders: The man who mapped Australia
• Robert Hay
  • Landsman Hay
• Roger Knight
  • The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
• Ronald S. Coddington
  • Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Union and Confederate Sailors
• Sam Willis
  • The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend
• Samuel Leech
  • Thirty Years from Home: A Seamans View of the War of 1812
• Samuel Pepys
  • Samuel Pepys Memoires of the Royal Navy, 1690
• Sir Edward Belcher, Arthur Adams & J. & C. Walker (Firm)
  • Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years 1843-46
• Sir Edward Belcher, John Richardson, Richard Owen, Thomas Bell, John William Salter & Lovell Reeve
  • The Last of the Arctic Voyages
• Sir Edward Belcher, Richard A. Pierce, John H. Winslow & Francis G. Simpkinson
  • H.M.S. Sulphur at California, 1837 and 1839
• Sir Edward Belcher, Richard Brinsley Hinds & Great Britain Admiralty
  • Narrative of a Voyage Round the World
• Sir William Hoste (1st Bart.)
  • Memoirs and letters of Capt. Sir William Hoste
• Stephen Taylor
  • Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain
• Steven E. Maffeo
  • Seize, Burn or Sink: The Thoughts and Words of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
• Taliesin Trow
  • Sir Martin Frobisher: Seaman, Soldier, Explorer
• Thomas Cochrane Earl of Dundonald
  • The Autobiography of a Seaman
• Tim McGrath
  • John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail
• Tim Voelcker
  • Admiral Saumarez Versus Napoleon: The Baltic, 1807-12
  • Broke of the Shannon and the War of 1812
• Tom Pocock
  • Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer and Adventurer
  • Remember Nelson: The Life of Sir William Hoste
• Tom Wareham
  • Frigate Commander
• Victor Suthren
  • The Sea Has No End: The Life of Louis-Antoine De Bougainville
  • To Go Upon Discovery: James Cook and Canada, from 1758 to 1779
• Vivian Stuart
  • The Beloved Little Admiral
• W. H. G. Kingston
  • Captain Cook, his Life, Voyages and Discoveries
• W. R. O'Byrne
  • Naval Biographical Dictionary
• William Bligh
  • The Bounty Mutiny: Captain William Bligh's Firsthand Account of the Last Voyage of HMS Bounty
• William Clark Russell
  • Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England
  • Nelson's Words and Deeds: A Selection from the Dispatches and Correspondence of Horatio Nelson
  • Pictures from the Life of Nelson
  • The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood
• William M. Fowler, Jr
  • Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas Talbot
  • Silas Talbot: Captain of Old Ironsides
• William Richardson
  • A Mariner of England
• Woodes Rogers
  • Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne