Maritime History

Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian a...

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and pra...

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890) is a work of naval history and strategy by Alfred Thayer Mahan. Drawing on decades of experience as ...

John Quirk loves history, drawing and boats and these three elements come together in this attractive and entertaining book. He has sought out obsc...

The Midway-class were the US Navy's biggest carriers built during World War II. Superbly illustrated, this explains how they became the backbone of...

This is a book about sea journeys made by brave souls Italians, Germans, Dutch, and English who battled storms, pirates and xenophobia to stock o...

Edited from Contemporary Records. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 2) is continuous. This is a new print-on-de...

Showcasing photographs and illustrations from a variety of collectors archives, The Unseen Mauretania 1907 reveals the Cunard companys most luxurio...

In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked merely for money. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the importan...

The Eighteenth Century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these...

Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves, goes the popular lyric. The fact that the British built the worlds greatest empire on the basis of sea po...

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the historyand presento...

A sensational, interdisciplinary work which entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings In this magnif...

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and earl...

Celebrating 100 years since the first submariner received the Congressional Medal of Honor, dive into pre-World War II submarine history through th...

A concise introduction to the history and evolution of security at sea. Whether it is pirates, smugglers, illicit fishing, or disputes in the Sou...

A concise introduction to the history and evolution of security at sea. Whether it is pirates, smugglers, illicit fishing, or disputes in the Sou...