Maritime History

A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1942, the Combined Flee...

We may think of globalism as a recent development, but its origins date back to century and beyond, when courageous seafarers pioneered routes acro...

For as long as humanity has ventured on the seas, naval warfare has been an integral part of their activities and the focal point for many historie...

Five weeks after the withdrawal of the legendary Rotterdam (V), Holland America Line introduced the Rotterdam (VI) in November 1997. With her gross...

Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 millio...

Just as the sea has played a pivotal role in the connectivity of people, economies and cultures, it has also provided a common platform for inter-d...

'An exceptional book. Sailing Alone belongs on the very small shelf of the true classics of the sea' Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voya...

Meet the people connected to Titanic in a very personal way. Through a tremendous display of memorabilia items some of them very personal you wil...

Pirates have long captured the imagination with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches and buried treasure. But what was life really...

Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of th...

Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent boo...

An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun. Roddy Doyle ...

This book is the first modern analysis of the coasting trade in Elizabethan England. Drawing on a significant body of evidence, including evidence ...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

With echoes ofUnbroken; the derring-do and bravado ofThe Right Stuff; and the battle-forged camaraderie ofBand of Brothers, this is the World War I...

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...