ME Other Non-Fiction Book List

There are many books written about Merchant Ships during the World Wars and in Modern Times. This section lists some of them.

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• Angus Konstam
  • Confederate Blockade Runner 1861–65
• Bernard Edwards
  • Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939–1945
  • Return of the Coffin Ships: The Derbyshire Enigma
  • Running the Gauntlet: Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939–1945
  • S.O.S.: Men Against the Sea
  • Survivors of Enemy Action: Experiences of Merchant Seamen, 1939 1945
  • The Grey Widow-Maker: Tweny-four Disasters at Sea
• Brian Lavery
  • SS Great Britain Owners' Workshop Manual
• Daniel Moran & James A. Russell (Editors)
  • Maritime Strategy and Global Order: Markets, Resources, Security
• Diana & Michael Preston
  • Act of War: The Sinking of the Lusitania
• Diana Preston
  • The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
  • Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
• Douglas Reeman
  • Against the Sea
• Douglas V. Duff
  • Ships of the World
  • The Story of the Merchant Navy: Two Thousand Years of Seafaring
• Erik Larson
  • Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
• Geoffrey Bond
  • Lakonia
  • Lancastria
• J. E. Taylor
  • Of Ships and Seamen
• John Molloy
  • Steady as She Goes
• Joseph F. Callo
  • The Sea Was Always There
• Nick Robins
  • Birds of the Sea: 150 Years of the General Steam Navigation Company
  • Coastal Passenger Liners of the British Isles
  • Ferry Powerful: A History of the Modern British Diesel Ferry
  • Manchester Liners - an Extraordinary Story
  • Passenger Tugs and Tenders
  • The British Excursion Ship
  • The Cruise Ship: A Very British Institution
  • The Decline and Revival of the British Passenger Fleet
  • The Evolution of the British Ferry
  • The Last Steamers
  • The Ships That Came to Manchester: From the Mersey and Weaver Sailing Flat to the Mighty Container Ship
  • Turbine Steamers of the British Isles
• Peter Padfield
  • The Sea is a Magic Carpet
  • The Titanic and the Californian
• Randall Peffer and Eric Takakjian
  • Dangerous Shallows: In Search of the Ghost Ships of Cape Cod
• Richard Woodman
  • Fiddler's Green: The Great Squandering 1921-2010
  • More Days, More Dollars: The Universal Bucket Chain 1885-1920
  • The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943
• Stephen Fox
  • The Ocean Railway: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships
• Tad Fitch & Michael Poirier
  • Into the Danger Zone: Sea Crossings of the First World War
• Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton & Bill Wormstedt
  • On A Sea of Glass: The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic
• Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton & Bill Wormstedt & 9 others
  • Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic: A Centennial Reappraisal
• Warren Tute
  • Atlantic Conquest