Maritime History

Rudolf Diesel's epoch-making invention became a practical reality when M/S Selandia was launched in 1912. Through the 19th century, the steam ship ...

Black Friday is the astonishing true story of a coastal community that lost 189 men in a single afternoon. Britain's worst fishing disaster decimat...

Nusantaria often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and tr...

The incredible story of the King of the Pirates, who burst from the waters of early Canada to become a terror of the seas.He was tall, dark, and ha...

The trials and tribulations of a Canadian business titan during a fascinating period in 19th-century Quebec. A Mind at Sea is an intimate window in...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014 WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE 2015 One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the S...

A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Bat...

Why the world can't afford to be indifferent to the simmering conflict in the South China SeaThe greatest risk today in U.S.-Chinese relations is t...

Published on the quatercentenary of the Mayflower''s journey, this book offers a unique perspective by placing the story in a British context and p...

There is no more illustrious warship name in British naval history than HMS Victory, which is inextricably linked with Admiral Lord Nelson and the ...

From the Spanish galleons of the 16th century to the cruise ships and crude oil tankers of the 21st, maritime industries have been central to Ameri...

When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a traged...

How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914but shaped Britains success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andr...

'Consistently illuminating ... Like all the best stories, it is about the timeless tides of power and influence ... trade deals can sometimes be se...

In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive...

Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years: Tourist Third Cabin offers a window into a bygone era in which modern steamships like the Queen Mary, the N...

From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an important (The Wall Street Journal) and penetrating historical and political study (Nature) of th...

The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-li...

The great warship the Mary Rose was built between 1509 and 1511 and served 34 years in Henry VIIIs navy before catastrophically sinking in the Batt...

The first book to explore in detail the wrecks of these two vessels from Force Z which in December 1941 was sent to defend Singapore. It grippingly...

For more than 30 years, internationally acclaimed wreck diver and best-selling author, Rod Macdonald, has surveyed and researched shipwrecks around...

Leith-Built Ships is a testimony to the skill of the men who built the ships and to the many men and women who may have sailed or served on them. T...

The destruction of the HMS Hood by the Bismarck in 1941 was one of the most shocking episodes in the history of the Royal Navy. Built during World ...

The Celtic belief that by recording a story the spirit of the story and its teller would die, has meant that generations worth of stories of have b...