Tom Pocock

Britannia Rules the Waves

Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1857

By Peter Padfield

Simon Heffer

The Pride of the Fleet

The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815

By N A M Rodger

Nigel Jones

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail, 1793–1815

By Noel Mostert

Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 1775–1860

By David Cordingly

Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809

By Stephen Taylor