Tim Heald

Shenanigans On Ship

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By Caroline Alexander

Paul Johnson

Good Queen Bess

The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada

By Neil Hanson

William Palmer

Coastal Calamity

The Caliban Shore: The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways

By Stephen Taylor

Simon Heffer

Warlords At Sea

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

By Robert K Massie

Lucy Moore

When the Ship Goes Down

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

Frank McLynn

Time of the Trireme

Salamis: The Greatest Naval Battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC

By Barry Strauss

Andrew Taylor

The Botanical Buccaneer

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier

By Diana and Michael Preston

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

Nick Smith

A Native of the Ends of the Earth

Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic

By Michael Smith

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

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

Britannia Rules the Waves

Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War

By Glyn Prysor

Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines

By Tim Clayton

James Holland

Men-of-War

The Bitter Sea: The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean, 1935–1949

By Simon Ball

Nigel Jones

Life on the Ocean Wave

Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy

By Roy & Lesley Adkins

Jason Goodwin

Pirate of the Middle Sea

Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521–1580

By Roger Crowley

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

Frank Fairfield

Bodyguard of Lies

The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill’s Cover-Up

By Jonathan Fenby

Gregor Dallas

Naval Gazing

Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

By Adam Nicolson

Paul Lay

English Bullies, Spanish Bullion

Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs: How the English became the Scourge of the Seas

By Hugh Bicheno

Roger Crowley

Men in Boats

The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

By Lincoln Paine