December 2019 Issue Neil Armstrong Showdown on the Linoleum Ocean A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War By Simon Parkin
March 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Warlords At Sea Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea By Robert K Massie LR
March 2015 Issue Lucy Moore When the Ship Goes Down Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania By Erik Larson LR
August 2004 Issue Kenneth Rose Life of Bryan Royal Servent, Family Friend: The Life and Times of Naval Equerry Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett RN, 1836-1945 By George Godfrey-Faussett LR
September 2004 Issue Nick Smith A Native of the Ends of the Earth Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic By Michael Smith LR
September 2004 Issue Christopher Lee Ships Hoping to Pass in the Night The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943 By Richard Woodman LR
April 2009 Issue James Holland Men-of-War The Bitter Sea: The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean, 1935–1949 By Simon Ball LR
June 2005 Issue Frank Fairfield Bodyguard of Lies The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill’s Cover-Up By Jonathan Fenby LR
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