AOS Naval Non-Fiction - General Book List

General Non-Fiction books about the Navies of the world during the Age of Sail.

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• A. B. McLeod
  • British Naval Captains of the Seven Years' War: The View from the Quarterdeck
• A. J. Noon
  • Navy Bites: Volume I
• Alan Schom
  • Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805
• Alex Dienst
  • The Navy of the Republic of Texas, 1835-1845
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • Major Operations of the Navies in the Wars of American Independence
  • The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
• Allen Gardiner
  • Hunting the Essex: A Journal of the Voyage of HMS Phoebe 1813-1814
• Andrew D. Lambert
  • The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
  • War at Sea in the Age of Sail 1650-1850
• Angus Konstam
  • Tudor Warships (1): Henry VIII's Navy
  • Tudor Warships (2) : Elizabeth I's Navy
• Ann Veronica Coats & Philip MacDougall
  • Five Hundred Years of Deptford and Woolwich Royal Dockyards
  • The Naval Mutinies of 1797: Unity and Perseverance
• Anne Salmond
  • The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas
• Antoine Vanner
  • Broadside and Boarding: Small scale action in the Age of Fighting Sail
• Arnold Blumberg
  • When Washington Burned
• Arthur Nelson
  • The Tudor Navy: The Ships, Man, and Organization, 1845-1603
• Ben Wilson
  • Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy
• Bernard Edwards
  • Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808-1898
• Brian Arthur
  • How Britain Won the War of 1812: The Royal Navy's Blockades of the United States, 1812-1815
• Brian Lavery
  • Anson's Navy: Building a Fleet for Empire 1744–1763
  • Empire of the Seas
  • Nelson's Navy: Ships, Men and Organization, 1793-1815
  • Royal Tars of Old England: The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy, 875-1850
• Brian Vale
  • A War Betwixt Englishmen: Brazil Against Argentina on the River Plate
  • Independence or death!: British sailors and Brazilian independence, 1822-25
• Britt Zerbe
  • A History of the Royal Navy: The Royal Marines
  • The Birth of the Royal Marines: 1664-1802
• Buckner F. Melton
  • A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers
• C. H. Layman
  • The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas
• C. S. Forester
  • The Age of Fighting Sail : the Story of the Naval War of 1812
  • The Barbary Pirates
• Capt. Michael H. Rutstein
  • The Privateering Stroke: Salem's Privateers in the War of 1812
• Charles D. Stanton
  • Medieval Maritime Warfare
  • Norman Naval Operations in the Mediterranean
• Charles Rathbone Low
  • History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863)
• Chipp Reid
  • Intrepid Sailors: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and the Tripoli Campaign
• Christa Steinby
  • Rome versus Carthage: The War at Sea
• Colin White
  • The Royal Navy in Peace and War‎
• Craig L. Symonds
  • Lincoln and His Admirals
  • The Civil War at Sea
  • The U.S. Navy: A Concise History
• Craig L. Symonds (Editor)
  • Union Combined Operations in the Civil War
• D. A. B. Ronald
  • Young Nelsons: Boy Sailors During the Napoleonic Wars
• Daniel Owen Spence
  • A History of the Royal Navy : Empire and Imperialism
• David Childs
  • Pirate Nation: Elizabeth I and Her Royal Sea Rovers
  • Tudor Sea Power: The Foundation of Greatness
• David Hannay
  • A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217 - 1688
• David Hayes
  • Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy: The Spanish Experience of Sea Power
• David Lyon
  • The Sailing Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy - Built, Purchased and Captured, 1688-1855
• David Lyon & Rif Winfield
  • The Sail and Steam Navy List 1815-1889
• David Miller
  • The World of Jack Aubrey: Twelve-pounders, Frigates, Cutlasses, and Insignia of His Majesty's Royal Navy
• David Pulvertaft
  • Figureheads of the Royal Navy
• David S. T. Blackmore
  • The Seafaring Dictionary: Terms, Idioms and Legends of the Past and Present
  • Warfare on the Mediterranean in the Age of Sail: A History, 1571-1866
• David Syrett
  • Shipping and Military Power in the Seven Year War, 1756-1763
  • Shipping and the American War, 1775-83: A Study of British Transport Organization
  • The Royal Navy in American Waters, 1775-1783
  • The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War
• David W. Shaw
  • Sea Wolf of the Confederacy: The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read
• Dean King & John B. Hattendorf
  • Every Man Will Do His Duty: An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793-1815
• Dudley Pope
  • At 12 Mr Byng Was Shot
  • Life in Nelson's Navy
  • The Black Ship
  • The Devil Himself: The Mutiny of 1800
• E. Hamilton Currey
  • Flag of the Prophet: The Story of the Muslim Corsairs
• Edgar Stanton Maclay
  • Washington’s Wolfpack: The Navy Before There Was A Navy
• Frank L. Fox
  • Great Ships: Battlefleet of King Charles II
• Frank McLynn
  • 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World
• G. E. Manwaring & Bonamy Dobrée
  • The Floating Republic: An Account of the Mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797
• Geoff Hunt
  • The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt: Master Painter of the Naval World of Nelson and Patrick O'Brian
  • The Sea Painter's World: The New Marine Art of Geoff Hunt, 2003-2010
• Geoffrey Moorhouse
  • Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Seapower
• George C. Daughan
  • 1812: The Navy's War
  • If by Sea: The Forging of the American Navy - From the Revolution to the War of 1812
  • Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the War of American Independence
• Glyn Williams
  • The Prize of All the Oceans
  • Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
• Graham A. Thomas
  • Pirate Killers: The Royal Navy and the African Pirates
• Gregory Fremont-Barnes
  • The Royal Navy 1793-1815
  • Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the US Navy and Marines
• H. V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke & John G. Reid (Editors)
  • Britain's Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c.1550-1850
• Helen Watt & Anne Hawkins
  • Letters of Seamen in the Wars with France 1793-1815
• Iain Dickie & others
  • Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare: 1190 BC-Present
• Ian W. Toll
  • Six Frigates
• J. D. Davies
  • Britannia's Dragon: A Naval History of Wales
  • Gentlemen and Tarpaulins: The Officers and Men of the Restoration Navy
  • Kings of the Sea: Charles II, James II and the Royal Navy
  • Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89
• J. Dennis Robinson
  • America's Privateer: Lynx and the War of 1812
• J. North Conway & Jesse Dubuc
  • Attack of the HMS Nimrod: Wareham and the War of 1812
• J. R. Hutchinson
  • The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
• J. Ross Dancy
  • The Myth of the Press Gang: Volunteers, Impressment and the Naval Manpower Problem in the Late Eighteenth Century
• James Davey
  • In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars
  • Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions
  • The Transformation of British Naval Strategy: Seapower and Supply in Northern Europe, 1808-1812
• James Davey & Richard Johns
  • Broadsides: Caricatures and the Navy 1756-1815
• James Fenimore Cooper
  • The History of the Navy of the United States of America
• James L. Nelson
  • Benedict Arnold's Navy
  • George Washington's Great Gamble
  • George Washington's Secret Navy
• James Tertius de Kay
  • The Battle of Stonington: Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rockets in the War of 1812
  • The Rebel Raiders: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy
• Janet MacDonald
  • Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era
  • The British Navy's Victualling Board 1793-1815: Management Competence and Incompetence
• Jeremy Black
  • Flames & Water: The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon
  • Naval Power: A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500 onwards
• John A Wolter, David A Ranzan, & John J McDonough (Editors)
  • With Commodore Perry to Japan: The Journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855
• John Barratt
  • Cromwell's Wars at Sea
• John Clerk
  • An Essay On Naval Tactics, Systematical And Historical
• John D. Grainger
  • 13 Sharks: The Careers of a Series of Small Royal Navy Ships, from the Glorious Revolution to D-Day
  • British Expeditions to the South Atlantic 1805-1807
  • Hellenistic and Roman Naval Warfare 336BC - 31BC
  • The British Navy in Eastern Waters: The Indian and Pacific Oceans
  • The British Navy in the Baltic
  • The British Navy in the Caribbean
• John Harland
  • Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-of-war, 1600-1860, Based on Contemporary Sources
• John Masefield - Adapted by Tom Grundner
  • Now That You Asked: Nelson's Navy
• John McGrath & Mark Barton
  • British Naval Swords and Swordsmanship
• John McLean
  • A Mission of Honour: The Royal Navy in the Pacific 1769-1997
• Jonathan R. Dull
  • American Naval History, 1607-1865: Overcoming the Colonial Legacy
  • The Age of the Ship of the Line: British and French Navies 1650-1815
  • The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787
  • The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787
  • The French Navy and the Seven Years' War (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series)
• Joseph F. Callo
  • Legacy of Leadership: Lessons from Admiral Lord Nelson
  • Nelson Speaks: Admiral Lord Nelson in His Own Words
• Keith C. Pye
  • Young Heroes: True Stories of Bravery and daring, 1793-1822
• Kevin Brown
  • The Seasick Admiral: Nelson and the Health of the Navy
• Kevin D. McCranie
  • Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812
• Mark Lardas
  • British Frigate Vs French Frigate: 1793 to 1814
  • Decatur’s Bold and Daring Act: The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804
  • Texas at Sea
• Martin Robson
  • A History of the Royal Navy : The American Revolutionary War
  • A History of the Royal Navy: The Napoleonic Wars
  • A History of the Royal Navy: The Seven Years War
• Michael G. Laramie
  • By Wind and Iron: Naval Campaigns in the Champlain Valley, 1665-1815
• Michael Lewis
  • A Social History of the Navy 1793-1815
• N. A. M. Rodger
  • The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
  • The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815 - 1945
  • The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649
  • The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
• Nicholas Blake
  • Steering to Glory: A Day in the Life of a Ship of the Line
• Nicholas Blake & Richard Lawrence
  • The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy
• Nicholas Tracy (Editor)
  • The Age of Sail: The International Annual of the Historic Sailing Ship
• Noel Mostert
  • The Line Upon a Wind
• Patrick O'Brian
  • Men-of-war: Life in Nelson's Navy
• Paul Chamberlain
  • Hell Upon Water: Prisoners of War in Britain 1793-1815
• Peter C. Smith
  • Sailors on the Rocks: Famous Royal Navy Shipwrecks
• Peter C. Smith & Derek Oakley
  • The Royal Marines: A Pictorial History 1664-1987
• Peter Goodwin
  • Nelson’s Men O' War: The Illustrated Story of Life in Nelson's Navy
• Peter Padfield
  • Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1788-1857
  • Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1588-1782
• Philip MacDougall
  • Chatham Dockyard: The Rise and Fall of a Military Industrial Complex
  • London and the Georgian Navy
  • Naval Resistance to Britain's Growing Power in India 1660-1800: The Saffron Banner and the Tiger of Mysore
  • Naval Shipbuilding in the Age of Sail: An Industrial History 1100-1800
  • The Great Anglo-Russian Naval Alliance of the Eighteenth Century and Beyond
  • The Naval Mutinies of 1798: The Irish Plot to Seize the Channel Fleet
• Quintin Colville & James Davey(Editors)
  • Navy, Nation and Nelson: The Rise of British Sea Power 1688-1815
• Rebecca Berens Matzke
  • Deterrence Through Strength: British Naval Power and Foreign Policy Under Pax Britannica
• Richard Runciman Terry
  • The Way of the Ship: Sailors, Shanties and Shantymen
• Richard Woodman
  • The Victory of Seapower: Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814
• Rob Mundle
  • The First Fleet
• Robert Gardiner
  • The Naval War of 1812
• Robert Malcomson
  • Lords of the Lake
• Roger Crowley
  • City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
  • Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
• Roger Knight
  • Convoys: The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America
• Roger Knight & Martin Wilcox
  • Sustaining the Fleet, 1793-1815: War, the British Navy and the Contractor State
• Roland Pietsch
  • The Real Jim Hawkins: Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy
• Ronald D. Utt
  • Ships of Oak - Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Forging of the American Navy
• Roy Adkins & Lesley Adkins
  • Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
  • Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy
  • The War For All The Oceans : From Nelson At The Nile To Napoleon At Waterloo
• Sam Willis
  • Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare
  • The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution
• Sian Rees
  • Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade
• Simon Elliott
  • Roman Britain's Pirate King: Carausius, Constantius Chlorus and the Fourth Roman Invasion of Britain
  • Sea Eagles of Empire: The Classis Britannica and the Battles for Britain
• Sir Edward Belcher
  • A Treatise on Nautical Surveying
• Stanley L Quick with Chipp Reid
  • Lion in the Bay: The British Invasion of the Chesapeake, 1813-14
• Stephen Budiansky
  • Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815
• Stephen Pope
  • Hornblower's Navy: Life at Sea in the Age of Nelson
• Stephen Taylor
  • Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean 1808-1810
• Steve Murdoch
  • The Terror of the Seas?: Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713
• Steven E. Maffeo
  • Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson
• Steven Park
  • The Burning of His Majesty's Schooner Gaspee: An Attack on Crown Rule Before the American Revolution
• Susan Rose
  • England's Medieval Navy 1066-1509: Ships, Men & Warfare
• Suzanne J. Stark
  • Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail
• Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Naval War of 1812
• Thomas Clark
  • Naval history of the United States: from the commencement of the Revolutionary war to the present time
• Thomas Dring
  • Recollections of Life on the Prison Ship Jersey
• Thomas Sheppard
  • Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic
• Tim Clayton
  • Tars: The Men Who Made Britain Rule the Waves
• Tim McGrath
  • Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
• Tom Pocock
  • The Terror Before Trafalgar: Nelson, Napoleon and the Secret War
• Tom Wareham
  • The Star Captains: Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars
• Victor Suthren
  • The War of 1812
• Vivian Stuart & George Teeple Eggleston
  • His Majesty's Sloop-of-war: Diamond Rock
• W. H. G. Kingston
  • How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves
• W. S. Gilly
  • Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1849
• William Clark Russell
  • Betwixt The Forelands
• William Falconer
  • Falconer's Universal Dictionary of the Marine
• William H. White
  • "...our flag was still there"
• William Henry Smyth, Edward Belcher (Editor)
  • The Sailor's Word-book
• William James
  • Naval Occurrences of the War of 1812: A Full and Correct Account of the Naval War Between Great Britain and the United States of America,1812-1815
  • The Naval History of Great Britain, from ... 1793, to ... 1820
• William M. Fowler, Jr
  • Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy 1783–1815
  • Rebels Under Sail: The American Navy During the Revolution
  • Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil War
• William S. Dudley & Michael J. Crawford
  • The Naval War of 1812