Latest Releases
This Section contains articles about new Age of Sail books released or due to be released. For a list of upcoming books please view the Releases Calendar
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- By: Antoine Vanner
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In a departure from his Dawlish Chronicles series, Antoine Vanner has a new Age of Sail non-fiction book available for pre-order. Broadside and Boarding: Small scale action in the Age of Fighting Sail will be released for kindle download worldwide on 7 December 2024. Antoine has a popular blog which features these smaller scale actions and the book will doubtless be a good read.
Forgotten epics of the Age of Fighting Sail, 1740-1815
There were few great fleet battles such as Trafalgar during the total forty years of naval warfare waged by Britain across this era. Between these major encounters, however, were myriads of desperate but small-scale actions. Each in isolation could be local in its impact but they were, in aggregate, influential at the wider strategic level.
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- By: N. A. M. Rodger
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N. A. M. Rodger recently released the final volume in his naval history trilogy. The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815 - 1945, is now available worldwide for Kindle and also in Hardcover in the UK.
At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840, as one contemporary commentator put it, the Admiralty was full of ‘intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar’. How the Royal Navy reformed and reinvigorated itself in the course of the nineteenth century is just one thread in this magnificent book, which refuses to accept standard assumptions and analyses.
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- By: Chris Durbin
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Chris Durbin's new book, Debatable Lands, is now available worldwide in Paperback and for Kindle.
When Spain joined the Seven Years War on the side of France, one of its aims was to conquer Britain’s ally, Portugal. They launched three separate land invasions, each of them ultimately unsuccessful, but each a deadly, existential threat to their neighbour. Portugal, meanwhile, was determined to hit back at Spain’s sprawling colonial empire, and the Debatable Lands between Brazil and the River Plate Estuary offered a tempting target. Finding themselves short of ships, the Portuguese government contracted a London company of merchant adventurers to provide two large privateers as the naval element of the expedition.
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- By: Jennifer N. Sellitti
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Jennifer N. Sellitti has a new book, The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-and-Run off the Coast of Nantucket, available for pre-order in Hardcover. It will be Released in the US on 28 February 2025 and in the UK on 28 April 2025.
After more than eight years of research, shipwreck hunter Jennifer Sellitti has delivered the first and definitive account of the sinking of Le Lyonnais and the hunt for Captain Jonathan Durham.
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- By: James L. Nelson
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James L. Nelson has just released a new book, The Tortuga Plantation, available worldwide in Kindle and paperback formats.
With the Spanish Empire brutally driving the buccaneers from their hunting grounds, the half-wild men must look for a new refuge in the West Indies. They find it just a few miles off the northwest coast of Hispaniola: the island of Tortuga.
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- By: Andrew W. German
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Andrew W. German has a new book available for pre-order, The Charles W. Morgan: The World's Last Wooden Whaleship. It will be published for kindle tomorrow, 15 October, worldwide with the paperback version released the same day in the US. The UK Paperback will be published 15 December 2024.
As America’s oldest merchant ship still afloat and the only wooden survivor of the once-vital whaling industry, the Charles W. Morgan has a complex story to tell.
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- By: Rod Scher
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- Title: Ship of Lost Souls: The Tragic Wreck of the Steamship Valencia
- First Published by: Lyons Press
- First Published Format: Kindle
- First Published Date: 5 November 2024
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- By: Thomas Guay
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Thomas Guay has a new book available for pre-order that will be released next year. Chesapeake Bound: An Annapolis Novel will be published for kindle on 4 February 2025 with the paperback version released the same day in the UK. The US Paperback will be published 1 April 2025.
A story of desperate immigrants looking for adventure, advancement, love, and most of all a sense of belonging in the colonies.
